Mimi Hoang
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Navy Pier Chicago. Photo: Iwan Baan, courtesy nARCHITECTS.
Mimi Hoang | Harris Armstrong Fund Lecture
Mimi Hoang, co-founding partner of Brooklyn-based nArchitects, will deliver the 2024 Harris Armstrong Fund Lecture as part of the Sam Fox School’s Public Lecture Series at WashU.
Hoang co-founded nARCHITECTS with Eric Bunge with a belief in architecture as an agent of positive change, responding to and connecting people with the environment in unexpected ways. Responding to our world in flux while fostering social engagement guides her work. Born in the tropics of Vietnam and trained in Amsterdam and New York City, she brings a global outlook and an obsession with greenery to the firm’s design culture. Hoang teaches graduate design studios as an adjunct associate professor at Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation and previously taught at Yale University.
nARCHITECTS’ honors include the 2023 National Design Award in Architecture, an American Academy of Arts and Letters in Architecture Award, the 2017 AIA New York State Firm of the Year Award, an AIA National Institute Honor Award, AIA NY and NYS Design Awards, an AIA NYS Excelsior Honor Award, the Architectural League of New York’s Emerging Voices, the AIA NY Andrew J Thomas Award for Pioneers in Housing, a Fast Company Innovation by Design Award for Spaces, Places, Cities, and the Canadian Professional Rome Prize.
About Mimi Hoang
Hoang has been an adjunct associate professor at Columbia University GSAPP since 2008, where she has taught Advanced Options Studios, Core 3 / Housing and coordinated Core 2 / Public Institutions studios since 2008. Previously, she taught graduate studios at Yale University from 2003-14. She regularly lectures on how we live, work and activate public spaces in response to our nation’s changing demographics, housing shortage, evolving workplace technologies and the need for equal engagement in the public realm. Hoang received her Master in Architecture from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design and her Bachelor of Science in Art and Design from M.I.T.
Hoang’s publications, co-authored with Eric Bunge, include their anti-monograph Buildings & Almost Buildings (Actar, 2018) and DD 28: nARCHITECTS 2000-2008 (Damdi, 2008). nARCHITECTS’ work has been published in national and international press, including: The New York Times, The New Yorker, Financial Times, Chicago Tribune; Abitare, Architect Magazine, Architectural Record, The Architectural Review, L'Architecture d'Aujourd'hui, a+u, Azure, Canadian Architect, Detail, Domus, Frame, Interior Design, Lotus, Metropolis, and Praxis.
NYS Equal Rights Heritage Center
Photo: Iwan Baan, courtesy nARCHITECTS.
A/D/O
Photo: Frank Oudeman, courtesy nARCHITECTS.
Carmel Place
Photo: Iwan Baan, courtesy nARCHITECTS.
Jones Beach Energy & Nature Center
Photo: Michael Moran, courtesy nARCHITECTS.
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Nov 11 at 5:30pm • Kemper Art Museum
Roots and Rhizomes: Relational Networks in the Art of Carolina Caycedo
In 2022, Carolina Caycedo stewarded the planting of an indigenous shadbush tree in a community garden in New York City’s East Harlem (El Barrio). This living organism, whose metaphorical seeds grew from Caycedo’s ongoing “Genealogy of Struggle” series, inspires Susanna V. Temkin’s exploration of the artist’s work within larger relational networks. Expanding ecological and symbolic concepts associated with roots, seeds, and branches, Temkin considers connections within Caycedo’s practice and across broader art histories of the Americas. In particular, Temkin will address connections to other artists in Caycedo’s work, along with broader histories of protest, ecofeminism, solidarity, and resistance.
This talk is presented in conjunction with the exhibition “Carolina Caycedo: Growing Deep Roots”, as well as the forthcoming presentation of Confluencias at El Museo del Barrio, New York (originated at the Museu de Arte de São Paulo).
About the Speaker
Susanna V. Temkin is an art historian and the interim chief curator at El Museo del Barrio, where she has worked since 2018. Temkin earned her master’s and doctoral degrees from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, where her research focused on modern art in the Americas, with a concentration on Cuba. At El Museo, her curatorial credits include the museum’s fiftieth anniversary exhibition, "Culture and the People" (2019), “La Trienal” (2020, 2024, and forthcoming 2027 edition), and the recent monograph of photographer Sophie Rivera (2026), among others. Prior to El Museo, she served as assistant curator at Americas Society in New York, as well as the research and archive specialist at the Cecilia de Torres Ltd., where she assisted in co-authoring the digital catalogue raisonné of artist Joaquín Torres-García. Temkin contributed essays to several exhibition catalogues and publications and is currently serving on the editorial board of the Journal of Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture.