Marianna Janowicz
Polish-born architect and writer based in London, UK. I am a Design Researcher in Residence at the Design Museum in 2022/23. I dream of future worlds with feminist design collective Edit and teach at the London School of Architecture, and University for the Creative Arts. My writing has been published in The Architectural Review, Disegno, New York Review of Architecture and on e-flux Architecture, among others.This is an interim website.
Photo by Anselm Ebulue
Publications
The Necessity of Uncertainty. Windows, Ukraine and architectural reuse Disegno #36 September 2023
Shopping for Ideas. Various national pavilions at the Venice Architecture Biennale New York Review of Architecture #36
Where There Is Life, There Is Laundry. The urbanism of the washing line Islands - a publication accompanying the exhibition at the Design Museum June 2023
Prevention Is Better Than a Cure. An interview with activist Kwajo Tweneboa Islands - a publication accompanying the exhibition at the Design Museum June 2023
How to Live in a Flat. A short graphic story Islands - a publication accompanying the exhibition at the Design Museum June 2023
How Do You Dry Your Laundry. A crowd-sourced survey. With Sabba Khan Islands - a publication accompanying the exhibition at the Design Museum June 2023
The UK’s first women-only tower block is a desperate measure for desperate times Architects' Journal June 2023
The Building Materials of the Future Might Be Growing in Your Backyard Untapped May 2023
The 1:100 Architecture Podcast: Responsibility to uplift Architects' Journal February 2023
Making Brent LSE Cities, November 2022 with Sabba Khan
How to: do no harm Canadian Centre for Architecture, September 2022 with Amélie de Bonnières, Lev Bratishenko, Sophie Weston Chien, Swati Janu, Charlotte Malterre-Barthes, Mariana Meneguetti, Bailey Morgan Brown Mitchell, Loránd Mittay and Samarth Vachhrajani
Book review: When Eero Met His Match. Aline Louchheim Saarinen and the Making of an Architect, by Eva Hagberg New York Review of Architecture #31
Review: Radical Rooms exhibition at the RIBA: power relations in architectural plans Architects' Journal May 2022
Book review: Strayed Homes - Cultural Histories of the Domestic in Public, by Edwina Attlee Architects' Journal February 2022
Kitchen Debate The Architectural Review issue 1487 Dec 2021/Jan 2022
Slippages, Spillages and Divides e-flux
Kinfrastructure The Architectural Review 1486 November 2021
Play Streets Icon 205 Autumn 2021
Strategy, Tactics and Victories of the Everyday in My Architect, Exhibition and Koolhaas HouseLife Film and Architecture 2021 Symposium proceedings
Learning from London's Lack of Lockdown Loos Open City blog
The Urban Foraging Revolution Open City blog
Just Toilets BUM Edition journal