In the tradition of Pauline Schindler’s salons and acknowledging “mother of us all” Esther McCoy, the MAK Center for Art and Architecture invites you to join design journalists and critics from across Los Angeles for drinks and conversations in the garden.
McCoy once famously said: “One incentive to write about Southern California was that it was so neglected. It was a place that was not taken seriously. And damn it, I wanted it to be taken seriously.” We are serious about LA, too. Damn it.
To honor the practice and strength of contemporary architecture and design writing in Los Angeles, we invite everyone to add a piece of criticism or reporting to an open archive on view as part of Mimi Zeiger’s Reading Room table residency.
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MIMI ZEIGER
Mimi Zeiger is a Los Angeles-based critic, editor, and curator. She founded the architecture zine loud paper in 1997, which was dedicated to “increasing the volume of architectural discourse,” until 2009. In the years since, she’s collaborated on multiple independent publishing projects, including the LA Forum newsletter and the Los Angeles Review of Architecture.
Zeiger co-curated the U.S. Pavilion at the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale and Exhibit Columbus in 2020-21. She curated and contributed to exhibitions at the MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture Shenzhen, Art Institute Chicago, New Museum, and Storefront for Art and Architecture. Her writing appears in national and international publications, including the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Architectural Review, Aperture, Wallpaper, and Metropolis. Zeiger is the author of multiple books on design, and serves as the book editor for Landscape Architecture Magazine. She is a 2024 MacDowell Fellow and received the 2023 and 2024 L.A. Press Club National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Award for art and design criticism.
This exhibition is supported in part by an arts grant from the City of West Hollywood.
Printing support generously provided by Typecraft.
Furniture for Reading courtesy of Karma.
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June 5, 2025 — September 14, 2025
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