Fixed-term Assistant Professor
Department of Architecture and Design (DAD)
Profile
Research interests
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 "in_bo". 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
(Area 0008 - Civil engineering and architecture)
Research topics
- The Mechanization of Life: An Architectural History of Intensive Animal Farming
Skills
ERC sectors
SDG
Teaching
Collegi of the degree programmes
- Collegio di Architettura. Componente invitato
- Collegio di Design. Componente
Teachings
PhD
- Environmental Histories of Architecture. A.A. 2023/24, ARCHITETTURA. STORIA E PROGETTO. Teaching assistant
Master of Science
- Environmental History of Architecture. A.A. 2023/24, ARCHITETTURA PER LA SOSTENIBILITA'. Collaboratore del corso
Bachelor of Science
- Keywords design (modulo di Storia e Teoria del Progetto). A.A. 2023/24, DESIGN E COMUNICAZIONE. Titolare del corso
- Atelier Composizione e storia F (modulo di Storia dell'architettura e della città). A.A. 2018/19, ARCHITETTURA. Collaboratore del corso
Research
Centres
Publications
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- Nannini, Sofia (2024)
The Icelandic Concrete Saga: Architecture and Construction (1847–1958). Berlin, Jovis, P. 224. ISBN: 978-3-98612-071-9
Libro - Nannini, Sofia (2023)
Un patchwork di casseforme traforato dà aria e luce a una palestra scolastica in Giappone. In: INDUSTRIA ITALIANA DEL CEMENTO, pp. 92-95. ISSN 0019-7637
Contributo su Rivista - Nannini, Sofia; Fecchio, Lorenzo (2023)
“... Non ho mai strillato tanto in vita mia!”. Marcello Piacentini e la ricostruzione del palazzo della Ragione di Ferrara (1946-1957). In: STUDI E RICERCHE DI STORIA DELL'ARCHITETTURA, vol. 7, pp. 12-29. ISSN 2532-2699
Contributo su Rivista - Nannini, Sofia (2023)
Casa Edda: La casa nel bosco di Glauco Gresleri (1966-67). In: Lezioni dagli archivi di architettura: Residenze private del Novecento in Toscana / Barbi S., Mingardi L., Firenze, Didapress, pp. 172-193. ISBN: 978-88-3338-217-3
Contributo in Volume - Nannini, Sofia (2023)
Pier Luigi Nervi (Nervi & Bartoli) e la Manifattura Tabacchi di Bologna (1948-1957). In: Architettura Emilia-Romagna: Bologna / Tolic I., Genova, Sagep Editori, pp. 94-99. ISBN: 978-88-6373-988-6
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