Sofia Nannini

Fixed-term assistant professor
Department of Architecture and Design (DAD)

Profile

Research interests

Architectural history and theory
Construction history
Environmental history of architecture
History of technology
Storia del design

Biography

Sofia Nannini is an Assistant Professor in architectural history at the Politecnico di Torino. Between 2021 and 2023, she was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Bologna, and adjunct professor at the University of Bologna, Florence, Pavia and at the Italian Institute for Design/IAAD. She is author of "Icelandic Farmhouses: Identity, Landscape and Construction (1790-1945)"(Firenze University Press, 2023) and of "The Icelandic Concrete Saga: Architecture and Construction (1847–1958)" (Jovis, 2024). She is member of the editorial boards of the journals "Architectural Histories" and "Studi e ricerche di storia dell'architettura". She was a visiting research fellow at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm (KTH, 2022, with the support of the Lerici Foundation) and research fellow at the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA, 2023). She is currently working on a book project tentatively entitled "The Mechanization of Life: An Architectural History of Intensive Animal Farming". This project has been supported by the CCA and by the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art.

Scientific branch

CEAR-11/A - History of Architecture
(Area 0008 - Civil engineering and architecture)

Research topics

  • Architectural and construction histories in Iceland and Northern Europe, 1800s-1900s
  • Architecture in Italy during the Fascist regime and its reception since 1945
  • The Mechanization of Life: An Architectural History of Intensive Animal Farming Ongoing research project, 1800s-1900s

Skills

ERC sectors

SH8_5 - History of art and of architecture

SDG

Goal 4: Quality education
Goal 10: Reduced inequalities
Goal 13: Climate action

Open badges

Editorial boards

  • STUDI E RICERCHE DI STORIA DELL'ARCHITETTURA (2024-), Editorial board member
  • ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIES (2023-), Editorial board member
  • HISTORIES OF POSTWAR ARCHITECTURE (2017-2021), Editorial board member
  • IN BO (2015-2024), Editorial board member

Teaching

Collegi of the degree programmes

Teachings

PhD

MostraNascondi A.A. passati

Master of Science

MostraNascondi A.A. passati

Bachelor of Science

MostraNascondi A.A. passati

Other activities and projects related to teaching

I'll be happy to discuss proposals for BA/MA dissertations on:

• histories of architecture and construction (1800s-1900s)

• history of industrial design

• historical and contemporary exchanges between architecture and non-human actors, specifically on animal farming

Office hours: by appointment, please send me an email .

Research

Research fields

Centres

Supervised PhD students

  • Eugenio Lux. Programme in Architettura. Storia E Progetto (40th cycle, 2024-in progress)
    Research subject: Architecture and politics in Social Democratic Sweden of folkhemmet (1932-1976)
    History of Architecture
    History of Architecture

Publications

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