Janno Martens studied philosophy and architectural history at the University of Amsterdam. After interning at RAAAF [Rietveld Art-Architecture-Affordances], he worked as research assistant for Erik Rietveld, with whom he co-authored several articles about the relation between architecture and ecological psychology.
In 2018-2019, he served as coordinator of the Jaap Bakema Study Centre in Rotterdam, which links the National Collection for Dutch Architecture and Urban Planning to the research agenda of the Architecture Department at TU Delft.
Janno did his doctoral studies at KU Leuven’s Faculty of Architecture (campus Sint-Lucas, Brussels), with a thesis entitled Environmentalising Architecture. Perception, Behaviour and Representation in American Design, 1964-1984. He is currently an FWO postdoctoral fellow with the project Thalassotopias. Charting the Subversive Oceanic Architecture of the Transatlantic Sixties.
Janno is also an associate researcher at the Flanders Architecture Institute for a project on the relation between software and design. Together with Dyonne Meessen, he runs atelier *teks-, an Antwerp-based studio producing texts and textiles.