JOSHUA GUINESS
JOSHUA GUINESS
 



Joshua Guiness is an architect, researcher, and educator working at the intersection of spatial design, territorial transformation, and contemporary theory. His work begins from a specific premise: that spatial arrangements don't merely reflect social and ecological conditions — they actively produce them. From this, he develops strategies that translate complex socio-ecological questions into spatial frameworks for territorial and institutional transformation.

Currently based in Zurich, Joshua’s practice spans design, research, and pedagogy. He is co-lead of Architecture Land Initiative, a collective developing trans-scalar approaches to spatial planning that integrate legal, economic, and ecological dimensions of land. He is a lecturer and teaching assistant at VOLUPTAS, a Master’s studio in architectural design at ETH Zurich, where design is developed through speculative scenarios and world-building. He also runs E-FX, a research-design platform using spatial intelligence to re-compose sovereignty, governance, and inhabitation under planetary conditions.


His work engages deeply with contemporary philosophy and theory, combining writing, spatial analysis, and visual storytelling. Joshua is a researcher at the New Centre for Research and Practice and a fellow of Organismo: Art in Applied Critical Ecologies, a program facilitated by TBA21, a contemporary art foundation in Madrid. His writing has appeared in trans, Scroope, and Situation Magazine, among others. Across his projects, he works through rigorous constellations of word, image, and spatial speculation, often in collaboration with thinkers, designers, and institutions across disciplines.