Lina Malfona

Lina Malfona , an architect with a PhD in Architectural Design, is Associate Professor in Architecture at the University of Pisa, where she established the research lab Polit(t)ico. The founder of the firm Malfona Petrini Architecture, she has designed and constructed an archipelago of buildings in the countryside north of Rome and her work is part of the permanent collection of the MAXXI Museum of Rome. She recently taught as a visiting professor at Cornell University, and pursued her...See more

Lina Malfona , an architect with a PhD in Architectural Design, is Associate Professor in Architecture at the University of Pisa, where she established the research lab Polit(t)ico. The founder of the firm Malfona Petrini Architecture, she has designed and constructed an archipelago of buildings in the countryside north of Rome and her work is part of the permanent collection of the MAXXI Museum of Rome. She recently taught as a visiting professor at Cornell University, and pursued her research thanks to a Visiting Scholarship from the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA), a Library Grant from The Getty Research Institute, and a Fulbright grant at IFA (NYU), among others. Among her books, La condizione manierista (2021), Residentialism. A Suburban Archipelago (2021), Building the Landscape (2018), Tra Roma e il mare (2014) and Il tracciato urbano (2012). Her writings have been published in Domus , Log , and The Journal of Architecture , among others. See less