Mimi Zeiger

Mimi Zeiger is editor and publisher of Loud Paper, a zine and blog dedicated to increasing the volume of architectural discourse. As a writer and critic, she covers art, architecture and design for a number of publications including The New York Times, Domus, Dwell, and Architect, where she is a contributing editor. Zeiger is author of Tiny Houses. Her latest book, Micro Green: Tiny Houses in Nature, was released March 2011.

Always obsessed with the intersection of architecture and media, she is Director of Communications at Woodbury University School of Architecture in Burbank. She has taught at Parsons New School of Design, the California College of the Arts and SCI-Arc. Her cross-disciplinary seminars explore the relationships between architecture, art, urban space, and popular culture. She holds a Master of Architecture degree from SCI-Arc and a Bachelor of Architecture degree from Cornell University.

Articles

The Interventionist’s Toolkit: 4

What happens when the grassroots tactics of activist designers collide with the top-down strategies of urban institutions?
The Interventionist’s Toolkit: 3

How do we judge the success of DIY tactics — of ephemeral works that skirt the edges of activist art and community organizing?
The Interventionist’s Toolkit: 2

DIY urbanists are making ingenious use of print media to spur urban activism — and sometimes revolution.
The Interventionist’s Toolkit: 1

Provisional, opportunistic, ubiquitous, and odd tactics in guerrilla practice and DIY urbanism.
Street Cred

A review of Street Value, the new book about downtown Brooklyn, and its dynamic interplay of shopping and planning, of politics, race, and class.
Two Feet High and Rising

A review of MoMA’s ambitious new architecture and urban design show, Rising Currents, which explores how New York Harbor might be adapted in the face of rising sea levels.
Our Design Decade

A review of Design USA, which opened last month at the Cooper-Hewitt, marking ten years of the National Design Awards program.

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The Interventionist’s Toolkit: 4

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Street Cred

Two Feet High and Rising

Our Design Decade

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Mimi Zeiger

Articles

The Interventionist’s Toolkit: 4

The Interventionist’s Toolkit: 3

The Interventionist’s Toolkit: 2

The Interventionist’s Toolkit: 1

Street Cred

Two Feet High and Rising

Our Design Decade