Albena Yaneva is Professor of Architectural Theory and director of the Manchester Architecture Research Group (MARG) at the Manchester Urban Institute.
She has held many prestigious appointments including a Visiting Professorship at Princeton School of Architecture, Parsons Schools of Design, the Lise Meitner Visiting Chair in Architecture at the University of Lund, among others.
Her research is intrinsically transdisciplinary and crosses the boundaries of science studies, cognitive anthropology, architectural theory and political philosophy. She is the author of several books: 'The Making of a Building' (2009), 'Made by the OMA' (2009), 'Mapping Controversies in Architecture' (2012), 'Five Ways to Make Architecture Political' (2017), 'Crafting History' (2020), 'The New Architecture of Science' (2020 with Sir Kostya S. Novoselov), 'Latour for Architects' (2022) and 'Architecture After Covid' (2023).
Her work has been translated into nine different languages. Yaneva is the recipient of the RIBA President’s award for outstanding university research.