Anna Myjak-Pycia

Anna Myjak-Pycia is an architectural historian working on modern architecture, in particular the history and design of domestic interiors. She is a postdoctoral researcher at the gta, ETH Zurich. In the past, she was Dean’s Fellow at the College of Human Ecology, Cornell University. She taught at Tufts University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the University of California. She worked as the editor of the Bulletin of the Polish Children’s Fund and of the humanities journal, Animus; her editorial work was recognized with the award of the Polish Society of Regional Press.

In 2018, she received a Ph.D. in History of Art and Architecture from the University of California, Santa Barbara, for a dissertation on modernism and the Home Economics movement; for her dissertation she received the Mallory Award. She also studied art history at Tufts University and literature at the University of Warsaw.

Anna's current work is funded by a grant from the NOMIS Foundation. She is carrying out the research project "Beyond the Visual: Towards an Inclusive Architectural History" and preparing the final manuscript of her book "Another Modernism: Home Economics and the Design of Domestic Space in the US, 1900-1960" for publication at Bloomsbury. She published three books (two co-authored) and dozens of articles on architecture, arts, literature, history, and music, including recent articles "Home as an Aid: Domestic Design for Disabled Polio Survivors", in Journal of Design History and "Forgoing the Architect’s Vision: American Home Economists as Pioneers of Participatory Design, 1930-60" in Architectural Research Quarterly. One of her essays received an award from the Moral Re-Armament (MRA) International.

Selected publications: https://www.gta.arch.ethz.ch/staff/anna-myjak-pycia/curriculum