Elsa MH Mäki

Elsa MH Mäki is a designer/teacher/writer in Brooklyn who comes from Finnish, Armenian, and Anishinaabek family. Her practice includes cartography, model-making, immersive theater, and architectural design. Elsa's drawing and writing have been featured in the Avery Review, The Funambulist, Disc Journal, and volumes including Non-Extractive Architecture (2021), Architecture of Migration: The Dadaab Refugee Camps and Humanitarian Settlement (Siddiqi, 2023), Architectures of Care: From the Intimate to the Common (2024), and Material Acts: Experimentation in Architecture and Design (2024). She has degrees in architecture from Columbia University – where she received the Marcia Mead Design Award – and Harvard GSD. Elsa is an editor with Avery Review and has held design and teaching positions in Minnesota, Massachusetts, and New York. She is Assistant Director of the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture at Columbia GSAPP.

Projects

41 projects

Projects

Water

Tiny Drops

The World Around:Land in Focus

The Temporary Logics of Extraction

The Queer House

The Night Library

Material Acts

Standing Rock Syllabus

Shinohara’s Mushrooms

Ruines

Post Mortem

Oddity #2

Non-Extractive Architecture

Meeting House

Making Inclusive Museums Now

Interior Provocations

Indigenous Architecture: Building Historical Consciousness

Healthy Housing for Native Communities

Generic Arts

Falls Restoration

Maps- Empire’s Tracks

Ecologies Agents Terrains

Disc Journal

Diorama

Data Pair

Dance Machines

Dadaab Commons

Cruises & Data

Building Backward

Bloodless

Bathhouse

Artifact #1

Architectures of Care

Architecture of Migration

Architecture+Design Summer Institute

Architecture and Extraction

Welcome to Lowell!

Oddity #1

Artifact #2

Sport Shed

Desire Lines