School of Architecture and Building
Faculty of Science and Technology
B. Arch (Melbourne)
PhD (Deakin)
Mirjana Lozanovska is an architect and a Senior Lecturer at Deakin University, where she teaches history (Contemporary Architecture after 1968) and design, and supervises design theses, honours and postgraduate research students. Her interest in teaching design began in 1985 as a tutor at the University of Melbourne, directly after graduating from the Bachelor of Architecture course there. Prior to Deakin, she held an appointment at the School of Architecture and Graphic Design, at the American University of Beirut (1995-1998). In addition she has participated in the International Summer School Program organised by the Faculty of Architecture, University of Saints Cyril and Methodius, Skopje, Republic of Macedonia.
Dr. Mirjana Lozanovska's research stems from her interest in the ways architecture mediates human dignity and identity, and the ways the architectural and urban environment stages new identity practices. She has published widely on questions of migration and sexuality in architecture, deploying contemporary cultural and psychoanalytic theories. In addition to journal publications, she is the author of "Abjection and Architecture: The Migrant House in Multicultural Australia, ' in Post Colonial Spaces, [(eds) G. Nalbantoglu & W. C. Thai, Princeton University Press, 1997] and "Emigration/Immigration: Maps, Myths Origins,' in Drifting: Migrancy and the Limits to Architecture, [(ed) S. Cairns, Routledge, 2004]. She has also published widely on war and the reconstruction of the city, a study that began during her appointment at the American University of Beirut in the midst of a post-war city.
Her architectural practice work includes several house extensions and the design of additional facilities at Strathmore Secondary College, with Simon Thornton and Dianne Peacock, for which they received an RAIA award.
