Baumer Lecture Series, Samiha Meem

Samiha Meem is a designer, writer, and educator. Her research explores how image, media infrastructures, and popular culture interfere with the representation, consumption, and construction of architecture. Meem is also the 2023–24 Howard E. LeFevre ’29 Emerging Practitioner Fellow and visiting assistant professor of architecture at the Knowlton School.

Her lecture will focus on her Banvard Gallery exhibition Girlroom through past, ongoing, and forthcoming work.

Meem’s writing has been published in Real Review, e-flux, Journal of Architectural Education, SUKO Magazine, and Flash Art’s Dune. Her work and collaborations have been featured in New York Magazine, Interview Magazine, Vogue.com, Dezeen, The Architect’s Newspaper, and Art Metropole; as well as presented at Nuit Blanche Toronto, La Centrale galerie Powerhouse, Toronto Design Offsite Festival, Fully Booked Dubai and La Biennale di Venezia.
   
She holds an M.Arch from McGill University and a B.Arch from the University of Waterloo. She has previously held teaching positions at McGill University. She has worked in award-winning architecture practices in New York, Toronto, and Montréal and collaborates with artists, architects, and institutions through her visual studio Meem Land.

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