Mimi Zeiger

Los Angeles

Freelance Journalist at Freelance

Critic, editor, curator, and instigator. Bylines @metropolis @archpaper @dezeen Book review editor @landarchmag

Articles

LA Fires: how do we conserve precious buildings against natural disaster?

1 month ago | wallpaper.com | Mimi Zeiger

How do we steward the past into the future? As a conservationist and director of the graduate programs in heritage conservation at USC School of Architecture, the question is often on the mind of Trudi Sandmeier. A few weeks after the fires in Los Angeles indiscriminately engulfed neighbourhoods in the Pacific Palisades and Altadena, it’s become an important and regular refrain.
10 emerging Californian practices rethink architecture in the Golden State

1 month ago | wallpaper.com | Jerome Byron |Ellie Stathaki |Mimi Zeiger

We highlight ten emerging Californian practices that are redrawing the borders of traditional architecture with their unique creative explorations. From Los Angeles to San Francisco, and with work spanning from building design to landscape and product; these are the studios that dream of a better future for their sunny State - and beyond.
Rebuilding LA: Altadena architects talk in after the fire

1 month ago | wallpaper.com | Mimi Zeiger

'Constructing the built environment has to be rethought holistically, rethought in a very radical way,' says Heather Flood as she surveys the remains of what once was her Altadena, California home. All that’s left of the French Country, 2,000 sq ft residence is a Batchelder tile fireplace and brick chimney, a pile of collapsed stucco, and the burnt carcass of an overturned refrigerator.
La Cuadra: Luis Barragán’s Mexico modernist icon enters a new chapter

2 months ago | wallpaper.com | Mimi Zeiger |Ellie Stathaki

Architect Fernando Romero has been shaping the future of Latin American architecture for two decades. His namesake firm (formerly FR-EE) and London-based Foster + Partners worked on a design for the New International Airport Mexico City; he crafted a gilded vision of Bitcoin City for the president of El Salvador; and he designed Museo Soumaya – the gleaming, dramatic museum named for both his wife and mother-in-law at the time, and commissioned by billionaire businessman Carlos Slim.
" America: I've given you all and now I'm nothing "

Dec 11, 2024 | dialnet.unirioja.es | Mimi Zeiger |Ann Lui

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Rome – Las Vegas: Bread and Circuses catalogs the geographic divide between the Nevada desert and the Italian capital

Oct 30, 2024 | archpaper.com | Mimi Zeiger

Rome – Las Vegas: Bread and Circuses | Photographs by Iwan Baan with contributions by Lindsay Harris, Izzy Kornblatt, and Ryan Scavnicky | Lars Müller Publishers | $53I have yet to make a pilgrimage to The Sphere, but I think about it more than I’d like to admit, searching for tickets to see Dead & Company under its dome of high-resolution screens or doling out Instagram likes to friends who road-tripped east on Interstate 15 in search of immersive communion.
How Can Designers Create Cultural Institutions that Serve Publics?

Jul 30, 2024 | gsd.harvard.edu | Mimi Zeiger |William Smith

Los Angeles’ Alameda Street cuts a north-south line through the city. Potholed by time, traffic, and freight trucks, the roadway stretches from Chinatown to the Port of Long Beach.
PATTERNS’s medical campus in the San Fernando Valley disrupts the strip mall typology

May 23, 2024 | archpaper.com | Mimi Zeiger

Victory Boulevard cuts a straight line through the suburban San Fernando Valley. It’s a 20th-century time capsule: a wide swath of asphalt lined by lowrise retail, gas stations, and fast food outlets that sprung up after acres of orange groves were bulldozed. More recently, infill housing has sporadically plugged in the gaps between strip malls and midcentury apartment buildings, but as a place, the Valley’s commercial corridor is bleak and sunbaked, even on a winter day.
Taggers have covered Oceanwide Plaza buildings with graffiti

May 17, 2024 | archpaper.com | Mimi Zeiger

Is Oceanwide Plaza an object lesson? Stalled for more than five years, the project in Downtown Los Angeles stands half-built, filling an entire block across the street from the Crypto.com arena and the L.A. convention center. Tall grasses grow in the gaps between materials and equipment abandoned when it’s bankrupt Beijing-based developer, Oceanwide Holdings, pulled the plug in 2019.
Using Simple Tools as a Radical Act of Independence

Apr 29, 2024 | untappedjournal.com | Jarrett Fuller |Eva Hagberg |George Kafka |Mimi Zeiger

A few months ago, I needed to make some changes to my website. What started as simple content edits—updating my biography, adding projects to my portfolio—quickly spiraled into a bigger project. New content types required new templates. My website is hand-built; I don’t use a content management system or an off-the-shelf-platform. Before I knew it, I was staying up late, rethinking the content architecture from the ground up.