2022.04 -

Canadian Architect magazine

Book review about ALMOST,NOT:THE ARCHITECTURE OF ATELIER NISHIKAWA

2021.10 -

“Foreword” to THE GENIUS OF JAPANESE CARPENTRY

2021.07 -

“Essay” to Yechel Gagnon book

2021.07 -

Mimi became the Dean of the University of Manitoba Faculty of Architecture in Canada

2021.06 -

2004.07

Mimi finished teaching at the University of Utah School of Architecture

2021 -

2021 ARCC Mid-Career Research Impact Award

2020.08 -

New book: Zen Garden Design

2020.08 -

“Foreword” to Measure and Construction of the Japanese House

2020.05 -

Architectural Record online

“Think Global, Act Local: Tokyo's Carbon Policy” article by Mira Locher

2016.06 -

Kuma voluntcered for Kumamoto earthquake

2015.01 -

2019.06

Mimi became Chair of the School of Architecture

2014.08 -

Mimi's Lecture and Book Signing in Washington, D.C.

2014.06 -

Mimi became a Fellow of the FAIA

2014.04 -

2014.07

Mimi taught at Hosei University in Tokyo

2014.01 -

2014.12

Mimi became the Associate Chair of the School of Architecture

2013.02 -

Architectural Record online

Obituary: Yukio Futagawa (1932-2013) by Mira Locher

2013.02 -

Shakkei, Winter 2012/2013, Vol.19, No.3

Book review about Zen Gardens

2013 -

ForeWord, Winter 2013, pages 56-57

Book review about Zen Gardens

2012.12 -

The Japan Times, December 30, 2012

Book review about Zen Gardens

2012.12 -

Financial Times, December 1, 2012

Zen Gardens named a Book of the Year 2012

2012.12 -

Garden Design Journal, December 2012, page 44

Book review about Zen Gardens

2012.10.10

Zen Gardens: The Complete Works of Shunmyo Masuno, Japan's Leading Garden Designer

2012.09.03

Publishers Weekly posted a starred review of Zen Gardens in their online nonfiction reviews section

2012.08 -

“B・1” BE ONE Magazine, August 2012, page 160

Book review about Zen Gardens

2012.07.07

Mimi was interviewed on tv in Thailand about the book, Zen Gardens

2011.05 -

Mimi received tenure at the University of Utah

2011.03 -

Translation of Accidental Design (無為のデザイン) by Takashi Sugimoto

2010.12 -

"iNTOUCH" Magazine, December 2010, pages 12-13
Article about Traditional Japanese Architecture: An Exploration of
Elements and Forms

2010.12 -

"Good Practice" Design Review at
Joshibi University of Art and Design (Tokyo, Japan)

2010.11 -

Traditional Japanese Architecture: An Exploration of
Elements and Forms

2010.08 -

Associate Director, The University of Utah MUSE Project

2010.06 -

"Foreword" to Impressions of Japanese Architecture by
Ralph Adams Cram

2010.04 -

2009-2010 Early Career Teaching Award from the University of Utah

2010.03 -

"Good Practice" Design Review at
Joshibi University of Art and Design (Tokyo, Japan)

2009.10 -

“Foreword” to A Short History of Japanese Architecture by Arthur L. Sadler

2009.01 -

"First Night Sparkles with 4,000 Recycled Bottles," photo and caption of University of Utah students' installations in The Salt Lake Tribune.

2009.01 -

"Salt Lake Celebrates First Night," article includeing University of Utah students' First Night installations in The Deseret News.

2008.11 -

essays in Phaidon Atlas of 21st Century World Architecture

2007.09 -

“Japanese Mud Plaster (in Utah),” article in AIA Small Project Practitioners Journal.

2007.03 -

“Public Housing and Design” front page photo and article about Hopewell Mann Housing Competition in Free New Mexican

2007.03 -

First Prize in the Hopewell Mann Housing Competition (Santa Fe, NM, USA)

2007.03 -

Super Potato Design noted in Architectural Record

2006.11 -

Super Potato Design

2006.11 -

“Naoki Kusumi” on Jyonetsu Tairiku (“Passionate Continent”) TBS Japanese documentary tv program featuring master craftsman Naoki Kusumi’s plaster work on H House

2004.02 -

“Kenchiku: Architecture/Between Bamboo – Mimi Locher and Takayuki Murakami,” exhibit at Washington University in St. Louis

2003.10 -

Japanese carpentry tool exhibition curated and demonstration coordinated at Washington University in St. Louis

2001.10 -

House in Nasu in Interior Design of the 20th Century by Anne Massey

2000 -

“Takayuki Murakami & Mira Locher: House in Nasu” in New Country Houses, edited by Carles Broto

2000.11 -

“Ancient Japanese Beauty Braves New World” by Paula Deitz, about the Gate and Pavilion at the New York Botanical Garden in The New York Times

2000.11 -

“Architects Use Man-made Materials for Natural Look” by Paula Deitz, The New York Times

2000.08 -

“House in Nasu, Japan” in Interiors

2000.04 -

“House in Nasu, Japan” in Interior Mogazine (Taiwan)

2000.01 -

“Back to Nature” by Paula Deitz, about the House in Nasu, in Architectural Review