Michela Bonomo
Michela is an Italian born naturalised British architect and researcher.
She completed her training in Architecture in the UK, where she then practiced at Foster Partners and Herzog & de Meuron, as well as through freelance projects in London, Mallorca and Milan.She is currently pursuing a PhD in History and Theory of Architecture at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (Switzerland). Her doctoral research critically examines the proliferation of seaside holiday villas in Italy from the start of the ‘Economic Miracle' to the first Oil Crisis.
As part of TPOD Lab (Theory and Project of Domestic Space), Michela supervises Master Thesis Projects and acts as one of the editors of Burning Farm Journal. She has been invited as an external critic at the London Metropolitan University, the Architectural Association, and the University of Brighton. Her architectural work has been showcased at the Lisbon Triennale, AA Project Reviews, and Something Curated. Her writing has been published in Burning Farm, Dimensions Journal, and OASE.
She is proudly involved in institutional engagement and acted as PhD representative of the Doctoral School of Architecture - within the collective Quatre- between 2023 and 2025. In April 2023 she launched Doc. Days EDAR, a doctoral review seminar across different labs of the Doctoral School of Architecture.
She completed her training in Architecture in the UK, where she then practiced at Foster Partners and Herzog & de Meuron, as well as through freelance projects in London, Mallorca and Milan.She is currently pursuing a PhD in History and Theory of Architecture at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (Switzerland). Her doctoral research critically examines the proliferation of seaside holiday villas in Italy from the start of the ‘Economic Miracle' to the first Oil Crisis.
As part of TPOD Lab (Theory and Project of Domestic Space), Michela supervises Master Thesis Projects and acts as one of the editors of Burning Farm Journal. She has been invited as an external critic at the London Metropolitan University, the Architectural Association, and the University of Brighton. Her architectural work has been showcased at the Lisbon Triennale, AA Project Reviews, and Something Curated. Her writing has been published in Burning Farm, Dimensions Journal, and OASE.
She is proudly involved in institutional engagement and acted as PhD representative of the Doctoral School of Architecture - within the collective Quatre- between 2023 and 2025. In April 2023 she launched Doc. Days EDAR, a doctoral review seminar across different labs of the Doctoral School of Architecture.
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In a forthcoming issue of OASE, the history of the architectural book review is outlined through case studies. The properties are studied of a genre that is more or less generally available, intended for a shifting audience of architects, interested readers and historians. Such a study is also an analysis of a medium: the book did not kill the building, as Victor Hugo put it in 1831, but always instigated and encouraged it. The main aim is to reveal how the book relates to practice, and how this relationship has evolved. The book review is a trenchant opportunity to look back on production in the distant or recent past, and to speculate about the future.