Piergianna Mazzocca

Piergianna Mazzocca is a Ph.D. student in the History of Architecture and Urban Development program at Cornell University. Her research interrogates architecture’s relationship to scientific medicine and investigates malaria eradication campaigns in South America during the emergence of Pan-American and national health organizations from the 1930s until the 1960s. Her research asks how new histories of architecture expand what we understand of spaces of medicine and what we understand as space-making practices and experts. Mazzocca obtained her Bachelor of Architecture from the Universidad de Los Andes in Mérida, Venezuela, and a Master of Science in Architecture and Urban Design from The Berlage Center for Advanced Studies in Architecture and Urban Design, at the Delft University of Technology, Netherlands. She has taught as the 2019–2021 Emerging Scholar in Design Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin, and as the 2017–2019 Wortham Fellow at Rice University. At Cornell, she is working with María González Pendás (architecture), Suman Seth (STS), and María Fernández (history of art).