Lina Malfona is Associate Professor in Architecture, founder and director of the research lab Polit(t)ico. She studied in Rome, where she graduated with Franco Purini and earned a Ph.D. in Architectural and Urban Design. She pursued her research thanks to a Fulbright grant at the IFA (NYU) and some fellowships, among which the Visiting Scholarship at the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA). She taught in many schools of architecture, among which Rome Sapienza, Politecnico di Milano and Cornell University (Ithaca, New York, and the Rome program). She authored essays on the history, theory and criticism of architecture, and on the relationship between architectural form and urban space. Her most recent books include La condizione manierista (2021), Residentialism (2021), and Unfinished (2022). Her writings have been widely published on architectural journals, such as Domus, Log, and The Journal of Architecture. Her built work has been awarded and exhibited in many institutions and museums, among which the MAXXI Museum of Rome and the Royal Academy of Arts in London.