Lina Malfona

Lina Malfona

Visiting Critic
Rome Past Faculty
Department

Architecture

Lina Malfona is Associate Professor of Architecture at The University of Pisa, where in 2019 she founded the Polit(t)ico research lab. A scholar with a Ph.D. in Architectural Design, she has authored more than 100 publications, among which are a number of essays and monographs on matters related to the history, theory, and criticism of architecture. As part of Polit(t)ico's program of events, she recently organized the conferences "Investigation on Mannerism" (2020) and, together with the MAXXI Museum, "The Future or the Eclipse of Criticism" (2023).

An architect, researcher, and builder, she is the author of a constellation of houses in the Roman countryside, which are at the center of her books Building the Landscape (Lettera Ventidue, 2018) and Residentialism (Actar, 2021). Her work has been exhibited at the Accademia Nazionale di San Luca, the MAXXI Museum of Rome, and the Royal Academy of Arts in London and published in the international journals Domus, Log, Abitare, and Architectural Record, among others.

Academic Research/Specialty Areas

Architectural design
Architectural practice
Architectural theory

Classes (Selected)

Arch 3308 Special Topics in the Theory of Architecture I

Awards, Grants, and Fellowships (Selected)

CCA Visiting Research Scholarship, Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal, 2018
Library Grant, The J. Paul Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, 2018
Fulbright grant, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, 2016–17
Visiting Fellowship, ATCH, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, 2015

Exhibitions and Presentations (Selected)

Participation in the exhibition Buone Nuove | Good News. Women in Architecture, MAXXI Museum, Rome, 2021-22.
Participation in the exhibition Climate and Geography, or viceversa, Architecture Room, Summer Exhibition 2022, Royal Academy of the Arts, London.
Participation with her project for a resilient community in Formello to the 17a Architecture Biennale, Venezia 2021, Italian Pavilion.
Participation in the exhibition In Memoriam, Architecture Gallery, Yale School of Architecture, 2020.

Publications (Selected)

Lina Malfona, Residentialism. A Suburban Archipelago (New York–Barcelona: Actar, 2021)
Lina Malfona, La condizione manierista (Siracusa: Lettera Ventidue, 2021)
Lina Malfona, Lucia Giorgetti and Szymon Ruszczewski, Unfinished. Sul non finito (Pisa: Pisa University Press, 2022)