Why Architects Need to Get Dirty to Save the World
This article was originally published on Metropolis Magazine as “Why Architects Need to Get Dirty to Save the World.”
Articles by Mimi Zeiger
“Venturi Scott Brown’s MCASD addition should be saved because it is by Venturi Scott Brown”
Despite changing needs and tastes, Venturi Scott Brown’s threatened extension to the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego warrants preservation simply because their names are attached to it, says Mimi Zeiger. Consider this a postcard from “Ugly Valley”. You know this place: it isn’t a downtrodden Catskills resort or the smoky grey Valley of Ashes
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“Architecture as intellectual inquiry needs to take more risks”
The second Chicago Architecture Biennial tackles the broad and tempestuous topic of history, but plays it too safe, says Mimi Zeiger in this Opinion column. I’m not going to define history. No matter how heavily that word weighs on the Chicago Architecture Biennial, which opened last weekend. Neither will artistic directors Sharon Johnston and Mark
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