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.
Recording
More Upcoming Lectures
Nov 19 at 5:30pm • Steinberg Auditorium
Artist Panel: Mary Weatherford and Katharina Grosse
Artists Katharina Grosse and Mary Weatherford, whose works are featured in Making Their Mark: Works from the Shah Garg Collection, both engage forms of nonfigurative painting that have a strong sensorial presence. A discussion moderated by Sabine Eckmann, William T. Kemper Director and Chief Curator, will explore how their polyphonic structures invite careful seeing to suggest alternative worlds.
Part of the Sam Fox School Public Lecture Series
About the Artists
Katharina Grosse was born in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany in 1961. She has held professorships at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf (2010–18) and Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin (2000–9) and currently lives and works in Berlin and New Zealand. Her recent institutional exhibitions and on-site paintings include The Sprayed Dear at the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart (until January 2026), Wunderbild at the Deichtorhallen Hamburg (until September 2025), Déplacer les étoiles, Centre Pompidou – Metz (2024–25); Why Three Tones Do Not Form a Triangle; Albertina, Vienna (2023–24); and Studio Paintings, 1988–2022: Returns, Revisions, Inventions, Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis (2022), toured to Kunstmuseum Bern (2023) and Kunstmuseum Bonn (2024). In June 2025, she realized a temporary in-situ work for Art Basel on the fair’s forecourt and the adjacent architectural structures. Museum collections include Albertina, Vienna; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY; ARKEN Museum for Moderne Kunst, Copenhagen; Baltimore Museum of Art; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Istanbul Modern; Kunstmuseum Bonn; Louis Vuitton Foundation, Paris; Magasin III, Stockholm; MARe (Muzeul de Artă Recentă / Museum of Recent Art), Bucharest; MAXXI – Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Rome; Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee; Museum Azman, Jakarta; Museum of Fine Arts Bern; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Serralves Museum, Porto; Staatliche Museen zu Berlin; and QAGOMA, Brisbane.
Photo Credit: Franz Grünewald
Mary Weatherford was born in Ojai, California. She earned a BA from Princeton University in 1984, was a Helena Rubinstein Fellow of the Whitney Independent Study Program in 1985, and graduated with an MFA from the Milton Avery School of Fine Arts at Bard College in 2006. Weatherford makes paintings that evoke a specific time, locale, and temperature. Her recent works, in which the canvases are affixed and sometimes juxtaposed with working neon light, provide an elusive and sometimes radical comment on the legacy of gestural abstraction. Weatherford is noted for her masterful use of overlapping fields of color, and as her work has advanced the increasingly complex and luminous interactions between paint, lighting, and wiring have produced a hybrid form that collapses the distinction between painting and installation. She currently lives and works in Los Angeles.
Photo Credit: Antony Hoffman