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Marga Jann, AIA, RIBA is a French-American architect whose work has been published in numerous international art and architecture magazines (Domus, JAE, Architectural Digest, Connaissance des Arts, Architecture Intérieure-CREE, l'Architecture d'Aujourd'hui, NY Times, Progressive Architecture) and books.

After her studies at Swarthmore College, where she graduated with Honors, Marga Jann went to the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture and Planning, where she won a Kinne Fellowship for travel abroad and a Lowenfish Prize for the best terminal design project, obtaining her M.Arch. She holds a MSt in Interdisciplinary Design for the Built Envinronment (Faculties of Architecture and Engineering) from Cambridge University and was a Fulbright professor to South Asia.

She spent two years working with Gwathmey Siegel Architects at Carnegie Hall, where she worked on several private Long Island residences and a large dormitory for Columbia University, leaving New York for Krakow and Paris on a French Govt Grant/Fulbright Fellowship. In Krakow she started the firm Poetic License (International Architecture & Design Collaborative) / PLI which she continued while a research fellow at l'ENSBA (Ecole des Beaux-Arts) in Paris. She has lectured on her work and been a guest juror at numerous universities throughout the world and coordinated for several years the Department of Environmental Design + Interior Architecture at Parsons School of Design in Paris. More recently, she has taught design studios at l'ENPC (Ponts et Chaussées), Sciences Po's "Cycle d'Urbanisme" (Paris), Stanford University in California, and Stanford's Overseas Studies Program in Paris, both at the graduate and undergraduate levels. She has been a Fulbright Senior Scholar to Sri Lanka, an associate professor of architecture at Judson Univesity (outside Chicago), an adjunct associate professor at the University of Hawaii (D.Arch. program), and a visiting professor to Duksung University, Seoul, Korea, where she worked on live projects for the U.S. Embassy and Seoul Museum of History, as well as an eco-friendly village in Fiji with both U.H. and Duksung students. In spring 2009 she taught at the European University of Lefke, Cyprus and is an associate professor at the American University of Cyprus, Girne; research topics include the architecture of divided nations, sustainable design for climate change, and architectural education.

"Ateliers d'artiste" Rehab, Paris

Her clients have included the International Council of Museums at UNESCO, for which she worked on museum projects in Kuwait and Cairo, the United States Embassy and Ambassador in Paris and Moscow, the US Consulate in Krakow, and the New York State Department of Education. Her work includes numerous schools, hotels, cafés, private residences, interiors, social housing projects, French competition winners, office buildings, and charitable projects in the developing world, often done in the context of academe where they serve as models for social entrepreneurship and sustainability. These "live" projects employ universities as interdisciplinary service-based "community design centers", offering students early "hands-on" experience and unique outreach. Her international background has facilitated her working in cultures as diverse as Nigeria, Russia, and Mexico. She also comes from a background in dance, cinema, and painting, which lends Poetic License some of its unique character.

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