Ricerc@Sapienza

Architect, PhD in Architecture (Sapienza University of Rome) and in Philosophy (Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3), she is Associate Professor of History of Architecture at Sapienza University of Rome, where she is a member of the Academic Board of the PhD Program in “Architecture. Theory and Design.” She was formerly Senior Lecturer at Umeå University in Sweden.
Her research focuses mainly on twentieth- and twenty-first-century architecture, with particular attention to the post-war period and to the relationships between ethics and design, and between art and architecture.
She is Architecture Advisor at the American Academy in Rome, a member of the Executive Board of Aistarch (Italian Association of History of Architecture) and of the Association for the History of the City, as well as of several editorial boards of academic series and journals in architectural history. She is also a member of Do.Co.Mo.Mo Italy and has collaborated with the Italian Ministry of Culture on programs for the protection and promotion of contemporary architecture.
Author of more than one hundred contributions published in journals, collective volumes, and conference proceedings, she has written the monographs Architecture as a Living Act. Leonardo Ricci (San Francisco, 2022), Da Roma verso il mare. Storie, percorsi, immagini della città moderna e contemporanea (Rome, 2017), and Prescrivere Liberare. Saggio su ethos e architettura (Rome, 2013).
In 2011 she was awarded the Bruno Zevi International Prize, and in 2019 the Enrico Guidoni Prize.