Marija Marić is an architect, writer, and researcher based in Luxembourg. Her work, situated between architecture theory, artistic research, spatial practice, and urban studies, critically examines the relationships between property, finance, and the built environment.

Marija holds a doctoral degree from the Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture (gta), ETH Zurich. Her dissertation, titled Real Estate Fiction: Branding Industries and the Construction of Global Urban Imaginaries, analysed the emergence of the "real-estate-media complex," referring to the collaborations between property industries and media infrastructures in the commodification of housing, land, and cities. She has conducted research, taught design studios and theory seminars at ETH Zurich, the University of Luxembourg, and TU Munich, and has been part of institution-building projects such as Cultures of Assembly and station.plus. Marija co-curated exhibitions including Down to Earth — the Luxembourg Pavilion at the 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale, and The Great Repair at AdK Berlin. She is the co-author of Staging the Moon: Resource Extraction Beyond Earth, as well as guest editor of several volumes, including Off-Earth for e-flux Architecture and the two issues of The Great Repair: Politics for a Society of Repair for ARCH+ 250/253. Marija's work has been presented and published internationally.

She is currently working on her new book, Real Estate Poetry, which explores language as a tool for unpacking the hidden violences of property regimes upon bodies, communities, and environments.

Marija Marić is an architect, writer, and researcher based in Luxembourg. Her work, situated between architecture theory, artistic research, spatial practice, and urban studies, critically examines the relationships between property, finance, and the built environment.

Marija obtained her doctoral degree from the Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture (gta), ETH Zurich. Her dissertation, titled Real Estate Fiction: Branding Industries and the Construction of Global Urban Imaginaries, analysed the emergence of the "real-estate-media complex," referring to the collaborations between property industries and media infrastructures in the commodification of housing, land, and cities. She also holds a B.Arch with honours and an M.Arch degree from the Faculty of Technical Sciences, as well as an MA in New Art Media from the Academy of Arts, both at the University of Novi Sad.

Between 2021 and 2026, Marija worked as a postdoctoral research associate at the Department of Geography and Spatial Planning, Master in Architecture, University of Luxembourg. Previously, she was a researcher at the Department of Architecture (2013-2018), ETH Zurich, where she worked with the Chair of the History of Art and Architecture at the gta Institute, the Chair for Architecture and Storytelling at IEA, and the Chair of Architecture and Territorial Planning at LUS. She held postdoctoral research fellowships at Academia Belgica in Rome and the LOEWE Research Cluster "Architectures of Order" at Goethe University Frankfurt. Marija was also a guest lecturer for the elective seminar "Gender Studies in Architecture" at the Department of Architecture, TU Munich. She has taught a number of design studios, theory seminars, and doctoral workshops; supervised PhD students and award-winning master's theses; and contributed to a number of juries and committees. Marija holds a university teaching certificate from the Department for Educational Development and Technology at ETH Zurich, and has been part of institution-building projects and pedagogical platforms such as Cultures of Assembly and station.plus. Throughout her work, she has contributed to and supported different initiatives focused on questions of labour and spatial justice, including the Parity Group at ETH Zurich.

Marija co-curated exhibitions including Down to Earth — the Luxembourg Pavilion at the 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale and The Great Repair at AdK Berlin. She is the co-author of Staging the Moon: Resource Extraction Beyond Earth (Spector Books) as well as guest editor of several volumes, including Off-Earth for e-flux Architecture and the two issues of The Great Repair: Politics for a Society of Repair for ARCH+ 250/253. Her work has been published in books, journals, and magazines, including Thresholds, Footprint, ARCH+, and Log, to name just some. She has organised and hosted a number of public events and symposia, and lectured internationally at institutions including Harvard GSD, MIT School of Architecture, TU Munich, and the Melbourne School of Design, among others.

Working in interdisciplinary teams and in collaboration with local municipalities and communities, NGOs, governmental bodies, and educational and cultural institutions, she has contributed to a number of research and design projects. Some examples include the winning proposal for the international consultation Luxembourg in Transition, as well as feasibility studies for the conversion of the Gebléishal in Belval, commissioned by the Ministry of Culture, Luxembourg and Cité de l'Espérance, commissioned by Fonds du Logement, where she acted as a project co-PI.

She is currently working on her new book, Real Estate Poetry, which explores language as a tool for unpacking the hidden violences of property regimes upon bodies, communities, and environments.