Full Professor (L. 240)
Department of Architecture and Design (DAD)
Profile
Biography
Albena Yaneva is a sociologist and architectural theorist whose research crosses the boundaries of science studies, cognitive anthropology, architectural theory, and political philosophy. Prior to joining Politecnico di Torino, Yaneva worked at the University of Manchester, UK for 18 years where she led the Manchester Architecture Research Group (MARG). She is Full Professor and the author of seven monographs: The Making of a Building (2009), Made by the OMA: An Ethnography of Design (2009), Mapping Controversies in Architecture (2012), Five Ways to Make Architecture Political: An Introduction to the Politics of Design Practice (2017), Crafting History: Archiving and the Quest for Architectural Legacy (2020), Latour for Architects (2022), Architecture After Covid (2023). She co-authored The New Architecture of Science: Learning from Graphene (2020) with the Nobel Laureate in Physics Sir Kostya S. Novoselov. Yaneva has held the prestigious Lise Meitner Visiting Chair in Architecture at the University of Lund, Sweden as well as Visiting Professorships at Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Princeton School of Architecture, and Parsons School of Design, The New School. She has delivered more than 200 invited lectures at prestigious universities, 50 of which were keynote addresses at major conferences. Yaneva holds a DEA from Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales and a PhD from Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris where she worked alongside Bruno Latour. Her work has been translated into German, Italian, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Thai, Polish, Turkish and Japanese. She is the recipient of the RIBA President’s award for outstanding university-based research.
Conferences
- Beyond Provenance, Invited speaker
Teaching
Collegi of the degree programmes
- Collegio di Architettura e Design. Componente
Teachings
PhD
- ACADEMIC WRITING: 5 EXERCISES IN STYLE. A.A. 2023/24, ARCHITETTURA. STORIA E PROGETTO. Main teacher
Master of Science
- Innovation Studies. A.A. 2024/25, ARCHITETTURA COSTRUZIONE CITTA'. Titolare del corso
- Knowledge and heritage active preservation (modulo di Territory and environment sociology). A.A. 2024/25, ARCHITETTURA PER IL PATRIMONIO. Titolare del corso
- Teoria del progetto. Mestiere e strategie per architetti. A.A. 2024/25, ARCHITETTURA COSTRUZIONE CITTA'. Collaboratore del corso
Research
Research fields
Publications
Last years publications
Publications by type
Last years publications View all publications in Porto@Iris
- Blackwell, Benjamin; Yaneva, Albena (2024)
School buildings as performative machines: the new architectural devices of control. In: SOCIAL & CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY, pp. 1-20. ISSN 1464-9365
Contributo su Rivista - Yaneva, Albena (2023)
Architecture After Covid. S.L., Bloomsbury, P. 176. ISBN: 9781350271081
Libro - Yaneva, Albena (2023)
The Good Partner: Designing with Wood. In: Touch Wood. Material, Architecture, Future / Ferrer C., Hildebrand T., Martinez-Cañavate C., S.L., Lars Müller Publishers, pp. 22-26. ISBN: 9783037786987
Contributo in Volume - Yaneva, A. (2022)
Latour for Architects. S.L., Taylor and Francis, P. 140. ISBN: 9780429328510
Libro - Kärrholm, Mattias; Yaneva, Albena (2022)
Big Science and Urban Morphogenesis: The Case of Lund University. In: Co-curating the City / S.N., S.L., UCL Press, pp. 200-219. ISBN: 9781800081826
Contributo in Volume - Yaneva, A. (2022)
The architecture of the hybrid lab: Spacing graphene research. In: SOCIAL STUDIES OF SCIENCE, vol. 52, pp. 733-757. ISSN 0306-3127
Contributo su Rivista - Yaneva, Albena (2022)
“Missed Magic: Models and the Contagious Togetherness of Making Architecture”. In: e-flux, vol. e-flux, On Models, a collaboration between e-flux Architecture and The Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto
Contributo su Rivista - Yaneva, A. (2021)
Giants in the lab: Model conservation and the anaphoric progression of design. In: JOURNAL OF MATERIAL CULTURE, vol. 26, pp. 85-105. ISSN 1359-1835
Contributo su Rivista - Yaneva, Albena (2021)
The new technologies of archivization: Albena Yaneva for the Shenzhen Biennale (UABB) 2019. In: Eyes of the City: Architecture and Urban Space after Artificial Intelligence / Federighi V., Naso M., Belleri D., S.L., HATJE CANTZ, pp. 159-162. ISBN: 9783775748803
Contributo in Volume - Yaneva, Albena (2021)
The method of architectural anthropology: Six Suggestions. In: Architectural Anthropology. Exploring Lived Space / Stender M., Bech-Danielson C, Landsverk Hagen A., S.L., Routledge, pp. 13-29. ISBN: 9781003094142
Contributo in Volume - Yaneva, Albena (2021)
The New Studio: A Mapping Controversies Experiment. In: Against and for Method: Revisiting Architectural Design as Research / Silberberger J., S.L., GTA Verlag, pp. 171-186. ISBN: 978-3-85676-413-5
Contributo in Volume - Yaneva, A. (2020)
Choreographies for the Laboratorized City. In: ARCHITECTURAL THEORY REVIEW, vol. 24, pp. 188-191. ISSN 1326-4826
Contributo su Rivista - Yaneva, A. (2020)
The happy city: An actor-network-theory manifesto. In: Ecologies Design: Transforming Architecture, Landscape, and Urbanism / Pedersen Zari M., Connolly P., Southcombe M., S.L., Taylor and Francis, pp. 181-187. ISBN: 9780429279904
Contributo in Volume - Yaneva, Albena (2020)
Crafting History: Archiving and the Quest for Architectural Legacy. S.L., Cornell University Press, P. 238. ISBN: 9781501752155
Libro - Alonso, H. D.; Dubbeldam, W.; Monchaux, N. D.; Steenson, M. W.; Yaneva, A.; Velikov, K. (2020)
A conversation on speculation and critique. In: Distributed Proximities, ACADIA 2020, Virtual Event, October 24-30, 2020, pp. 626-635. ISBN: 9780578952130
Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding) - S Novoselov, Kostya; Yaneva, Albena (2020)
The new architecture of science: learning from Graphene. S.L., World Scientific, P. 238. ISBN: 9789811220692
Libro - Yaneva, Albena; Zavos, Stylianos (2019)
The Good Experiment: How Architecture Matters for Graphene Research. In: Laboratory LifeStyles / Kaji-O'Grady S., Smith C.L., Hughes R., S.L., MIT Press, pp. 49-74. ISBN: 9780262038928
Contributo in Volume - Yaneva, A.; Mommersteeg, B. (2019)
How does an ANT approach help us rethink the notion of site?. In: The Routledge Companion to Actor-Network Theory / Blok A., Farias I., Roberts C., S.L., Taylor and Francis, pp. 306-317. ISBN: 9781315111667
Contributo in Volume - Yaneva, A. (2019)
Interlude 2: Five ways to make design and mobility political. In: Material Mobilities / Ole B. Jensen, Claus Lassen, Ida Sofie Gøtzsche Lange, S.L., Taylor and Francis, pp. 139-146. ISBN: 9780429198496
Contributo in Volume - Yaneva, Albena (2019)
The giant [built] formula. In: Raummaschine: Exploring the Manifold Spaces / Hansmann S., Geipel F., S.L., JOVIS Verlag, pp. 37-42. ISBN: 9783868595796
Contributo in Volume - Yaneva, Albena; Mommersteeg, Brett (2019)
The unbearable lightness of architectural aesthetic discourse. In: Aesthetics equals politics / Foster Gage M., S.L., MIT Press, pp. 213-233. ISBN: 9780262351454
Contributo in Volume