ProfessorMirjana Lozanovska

Professor Mirjana Lozanovska is an architectural educator, academic leader and
researcher with international collaborations and professional experience and
awards. Her executive roles include Associate Head of School International
(2014-2016) in the School of Architecture and the Built Environment at Deakin
University. In the period 2009-2014 she led the Socio-cultural Research
Cluster and currently leads the Architecture Vacancy Research Lab (13 academic
staff), generating a strong architecture research culture in the School. Her
expertise in teaching and creative practice combine with critical research to
shape her vision of twenty-first century architectural education preparing
students for changeable professional futures.

Mirjana Lozanovska is Professor in Architecture at Deakin University. Her work
investigates the creative ways that architecture mediates human dignity and
identity through multidisciplinary theories of space; and examines
migration/mobility and the reinvention of the city. Mirjana is an eminent
authority on migration and architecture. Her books include Migrant Housing:
Architecture, Dwelling, Migration (2019) and Ethno-Architecture and the
Politics of Migration (2016). The co-authored anthology Immigrant Industry:
Building Postwar Australia, (Berghahn 2024) and exhibition, Immigrant Networks
is part of Mirjana's work as CI on ARC Discovery Project on refugee and
immigrant contribution to nation-building in the built environment (2019-2024,
$344,741).

Mirjana's work generates new socio-spatial theories, contributing to interdisciplinary knowledge (publications include International Handbook of Transnational Studies 2024 and Routledge Handbook of Landscape and Food (2018). A series on alternative transnational architectural historiography, including Kenzo Tange’s work on the reconstruction of Skopje, contributes to a new wave of socialist architecture knowledge. Cross-fertilisation between traditional and creative research expands the scope and reception of her academic role. Mirjana's work advances a society of equality and dignity with major uptake in the public domain: ABC
film Palazzo di Cozzo (2021), ABC four-part documentary, The Homes that Built
Australia (2022). Her work is influencing third generation immigrants as in
the project 'Stubborn House' Sydney (2023); and the profession as in the
Special double issues "Migration.Women.Architecture," of Architect Victoria.

Research Groups
https://deakin.academia.edu/MirjanaLozanovska
Alfred Deakin Institute of Globalisation and Citizenship, joined 2016.

HOME - a house for all. Deakin Home Research Centre

https://home.deakin.edu.au/

Knowledge areas

Architecture history and theory, migration, cultural diversity in the built environment, socialist architectural history, alternative architectural historiography