Dr. Johanna Just is an architect and postdoctoral researcher at the Chair of Prof. Teresa Galí-Izard at the Institute for Landscape and Urban Studies of ETH Zurich. Her work explores how more-than-human perspectives can inform spatial design and representation. She has been a guest editor of gta papers and an editor and co-founder of DELUS. Johanna has worked in architecture and art practices in the United Kingdom and Germany and taught at ETH, the Bartlett and Oxford School of Architecture on architecture and landscape architecture programs. She obtained her doctoral degree from the ETH in 2025 and holds a MArch Architecture degree (distinction, Bartlett Medal) from the Bartlett School of Architecture. Prior to that, Johanna studied architecture at the IUAV Venice and the University of Hannover.
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Recent Publications
DELUS The Journal of the Institute for Landscape and Urban Studies, Issue 0, (eds) S. Frikech and J. Just, Berlin: Hatje Cantz, October 2023
Interview on ‘Drawing is Representation’, in H. Biechteler et al. (eds) Drawing in Architecture Education and Research: Lucerne Talks. Zurich: Park Books, p. 164, 2023
Repopulating a River: Reflections on the Return of the Rhine Salmon, AR#1 Aquaculture, June 2023
'Nature in Change: Exploring the Ecological Conditions of a flooded Gravel Pit in the Upper Rhine Plain', ARQ 113, April 2023
'Cultivating more-than-human care: Exploring bird watching as a landscaping practice on the example of sand martins and flooded gravel pits’, Frontiers of Architectural Research, May 2022
‘Drawing as situated practice’, L’Atelier Magazine, (20), pp. 97–105, 2022.