Dr. Mariana Garcia Junqueira

Mariana Garcia Junqueira Assistant Professor
Interior Architecture & Industrial Design

1087 Seaton Hall
920 N Martin Luther King Jr. Drive
Manhattan KS 66506-2902
T: (785) 532-5992

Dr. Mariana Junqueira is trained in Interior Design, Architecture, and Urbanism (History, Planning, Policy, and Design), with a graduate emphasis in Visual Studies. As such, she has taken an interdisciplinary approach to Interior Architecture, specializing in the intersection of interiors and a range of topics that encourage meaningful transactions with the built environment at multiple scales.

With 10+ years of professional practice, research, and design teaching, Dr. Junqueira has focused on design pedagogies & DEI and theories of place and placemaking to support populations disproportionally impacted by a rapidly changing world. In this way, Dr. Junqueira’s qualitative approach to creative processes challenges future designers to act responsibly, advancing the scholarship in a critical, social, and culturally conscious manner.

More recently, in 2024, Dr. Junqueira was nominated by the College of Architecture, Planning, and Design for the prestigious Dumbarton Oaks DEII Fellowship and was awarded the inaugural Engagement Champions fellowship, along with two of her APDesign colleagues, to develop the Better Housing Consortium at K-State.