Biographical notes
Lina Malfona is an Associate Professor in architectural and urban design, founder and director of the Polit(t)ico research laboratory at the University of Pisa.

After graduating in Rome with Franco Purini and obtaining her doctorate, she carried out research assignments and continued her work thanks to a Fulbright research grant at the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University and other post-doctoral research grants, including the prestigious Visiting Scholarship from the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA). She has taught at various schools of architecture, including the University of Rome Sapienza and Cornell University (Ithaca, NT, and Rome program), and she is the author of essays on history, theory and criticism focusing on the relationship between the architectural form and urban/suburban space.

Her most recent books include The Mannerist Phase in Architecture. On Early Style (2025), La condizione manierista (2021), Residentialism. A Suburban Archipelago (2021) and Building the Landscape. Residential Pavilions in the Roman Countryside (2018). Her works have been published in international architecture magazines such as “Domus”, “Log” and “The Journal of Architecture”. Her work as founder of the Malfona Petrini Architettura studio has been recognised by the Accademia Nazionale di San Luca and exhibited in numerous institutions and museums, including the MAXXI Museum in Rome and the Royal Academy of Arts in London.