D. Medina Lasansky

D. Medina Lasansky is an architectural historian whose research and teaching focus on the intersection of the built environment, politics, and popular culture. She has published on topics ranging from the pink plastic lawn flamingo to graffiti. She is the author of Renaissance Perfected: Architecture, Spectacle, and Tourism in Fascist Italy (Penn State University Press, 2004), coeditor of Architecture and Tourism: Perception, Performance, and Place (Berg, 2004), editor of The Renaissance: Revised, Expanded, Unexpurgated (Periscope Publishing, 2014) and Archi.Pop (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014), and author of Hidden Histories: The Alternative Guide to Florence and Tuscany (DIDA Press, 2018). She is the recipient of grants, including a Fulbright to Italy and residency fellowships at the Wolfsonian, the Canadian Centre for Architecture, the University of Turin, and the Society for the Humanities at Cornell University. She received her Ph.D. from Brown University.