about.
Maya Orzechowska is a Toronto-based architectural designer with nine years of experience in performing arts, housing and community-based projects, who has worked on projects in Montreal, Toronto, London, New York, and Hong Kong. She believes in spatial generosity, the expansion of the public realm, multi-faceted health and sustainability. Her recent speculative explorations focus on personal and collective identities, inequity, boundaries and the uncanny.
write.
2023.
Disillusionment and Uncanny Intimacy in Paris, Texas [PowerPoint presentation]. 2023 Architecture & Film Symposium: Intense Interiors, May 6&7, Toronto. 2023.
2022.
“Book Review: Unplanned Visitors: Queering the Ethics and Aesthetics of Domestic Space by Olivier Vallerand,” Canadian Architect. Nov 2022.
2021.
“On Boundaries + Apertures". Experimental Realism. Website curated by Jem Barton. 2022.
“Cinco principios para una arquitectura vulnerable e íntima", Revista de Arq Article and images republished on ArchDaily Mexico, January 28 2002. https://www.archdaily.mx/mx/975840/cinco-principios-para-una-arquitectura-vulnerable-e-intima
"Cinco principios para una arquitectura vulnerable e íntima: dibujando límites y aperturas alternativos al hogar y al yo / Five principles for a vulnerable and intimate architecture: Drawing alternative boundaries and apertures to home and self". Revist De Arq, no. 31 (2021): 32-45. https://doi.org/10.18389/dearq31.2021.04
“Twenty + Change: AM_A",” published in Canadian Architect’s Aug/21 Twenty + Change. article article available @ Canadian Architect online or in print.
“Twenty + Change: Davidson Rafailidis, Fort Erie, Ontario,” published in Canadian Architect’s Aug/21 Twenty + Change. article article available @ Canadian Architect online or in print.
“Book Review: Pre-Fab Living,” published in Canadian Architect Apr/21 Houses + Housing. article available @ Canadian Architect online or in print.
2020.
Orzechowska, Maya. 2020. “On boundaries + Apertures: Drawing a Vulnerable and Intimate Architecture”. Masters Thesis, Ryerson University, Canada.
Orzechowska, Maya. “Cultural Pollution,” in George, E. and Sørli, S. (Eds.). (2020). Freshturf+ : A Cultural Construct of the Great Lakes Basin. Studio Great Lakes and Ryerson Department of Architectural Science, Ryerson University. Book Launch Webinar available online.
outreach + teach.
coordinating events, collaborative activities, public engagement
lectures + crits
