Mia Hägg is an architect and the founder of Habiter Autrement, initially based in Paris and, subsequently, in Locarno. Since 2007, Habiter Autrement has designed housing and commercial buildings as well as various masterplans. The approach to innovative public housing has been a particular focus for the practice and the office has built three award-winning projects in Bordeaux as well as one in Paris.
In her early career, at Ateliers Jean Nouvel, she was employed as Assistant Project Manager on the Dentsu Tower, Tokyo and later at, Herzog & de Meuron, as Project Manager for the National Stadium of the 2008 Beiijing Olympics. Mia Hägg has been teaching Master and Bachelor levels at UCLovain in Tournai, Belgium and at the Accdemia di Architettura in Mendriso, Switzerland. She is regularly invited to give lectures at academic institutions and to join juries internationally, most recently the 2022 EU/Mies van der Rohe Prize jury.
She participated in the Venice Biennale in 2012 and 2016. Mia Hägg is committee member of Europan Sweden and of the Swiss Federation of Architects in Ticino.
List of Collaborators since 2007:
Stéphane Allaire, Kim Bjarke, Christian Bernhardt, Elise Camus, Anthony Clark, Florian Delon, Enrico Demattè, Adrien Durrmeyer, Sandrine Forais (Associate until 2011), Laure Frachet, Julie Heyde, Florence Houis, Gustav Hultman, Mathilde Jauvin, Benjamin Joudrier, Sunkoo Kang, Max Koch, Hiroko Kusunoki, Lina Lagerström, Aimee Lau, Aude Lerpinière, Yichen Lu, Louis Mangin, Félix Medina, Nicolas Métro , Veronique Paties, Thomas Radczuweit, Jean-Jacques Raynaud, Jennifer Schmachtenberg, Hosoub Shin, Elisabet Sundin, Marcello Stabile, Victor Ung, Martin Uppman, Marcel Züger