Lina Malfona, an architect with a PhD in Architectural Design, is Associate Professor in Architecture at the University of Pisa, where she established the research lab Polit(t)ico. The founder of the firm Malfona Petrini Architecture, she has designed and constructed an archipelago of buildings in the countryside north of Rome, and her work is part of the permanent collection of the MAXXI Museum of Rome. She recently taught as a visiting professor at Cornell University, and pursued her research thanks to a Visiting Scholarship from the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA), a Library Grant from the Getty Research Institute and a Fulbright grant at IFA (NYU), among others. Among her books, the most recent ones are: Unfinished. Sul non finito (2022), La condizione manierista (2021), Residentialism. A Suburban Archipelago (2021), Building the Landscape (2018). Her writings have been published in Domus, Log and The Journal of Architecture, among others.