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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, Architectural Digest, Connaissance des Arts, Architecture Intérieure-CREE, l'Architecture d'Aujourd'hui, Progressive Architecture) and books.

After her studies at Swarthmore College, where she graduated with Honors, Marga Jann went to the Columbia 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 has undertaken research and study at Cambridge University and is currently 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 Interior Architecture + Environmental Design 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 is an associate professor of architecture at Judson College and a Fulbright Senior Scholar to Sri Lanka.

"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. 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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