The collapse of LA’s Skid Row Housing Trust reveals a lack of investment in the maintenance of supportive housing properties
Cost of care: reflections on the Skid Row Housing Trust
Author Archives: Mimi Zeiger
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (1965–2020): demolition postcard
Mimi Zeiger sends a card to the original buildings of Los Angeles’ famed museum
What happens in Vegas: escaping to the desert
The anodyne is juxtaposed with the lurid in the desert playground that is Las Vegas
Conspicuous consumption: fast-food architecture
The crude kitsch of fast-food diners is being abandoned in a bid to communicate sustainability, community and health
The new normal: exercises in American citizenship
In recent times, events in the US have raised an awareness of the connections between the built environment and questions of justice, equity and political agency
Denise Scott Brown and the fight for recognition
[Jane Drew Prize 2017] A fearless feminist icon, Scott Brown fought against a culture that assigned Venturi to the canon without her – and she’s still fighting
‘Despite the pulls of gender, there is still the work – the ideas, designs and buildings that transcend any single notion of identity’
Identifying as an architect is a kind of drag, a mannered persona donned for effect
Tough Cell: architects’ involvement in prison design
The American Institute of Architects has rejected proposed ethical policy changes which would prevent US practices designing facilities for torture. Mimi Zeiger reports
