Jolanda Devalle

Nationality: Italian

EPFL ENAC IA TPOD
BP 4238 (Bâtiment BP)
Station 16
1015 Lausanne

EPFL ENAC IA TPOD
BP 4238 (Bâtiment BP)
Station 16
1015 Lausanne

EPFLETUEDOCEDAR

Jolanda Devalle is an architect and PhD candidate in the lab TPOD (Theory and Project of Domestic Space) led by Prof. Pier Vittorio Aureli. Devalle earned a Masters in Architecture from Yale, and a BA (Hons) from the University of Cambridge. Her studies at Yale were funded by the Edward P. Bass Fellowship in Architecture granted by the Yale School of Architecture. Devalle worked for four years as a design architect at Selldorf Architects in New York City, before beginning her doctoral studies at EPFL. Her writings on architecture have been published in Log, The New York Review of Architecture (NYRA), Paprika! and Burning Farm. She is a co-editor of the architecture journal Burning Farm, and has coedited the forthcoming book Order and Disorder: Selected Essays by Manfredo Tafuri (Birkhäuser, spring 2026).

Education

Master of Architecture (MArch)

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2016 – 2018 Yale School of Architecture

Bachelor of Arts (BA) Architecture, First Class

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2011 – 2014 University of Cambridge

Professionals experiences

Architect

Architectural Designer

Awards

Edward P. Bass Fellowship

University of Cambridge & Yale School of Architecture

2016

Journal Articles

What's wrong with the Rural House? Fascism and Myth in the Photography of Giuseppe Pagano

J. Devalle

Burning Farm: A Journal on Architecture and Domestic Space. 2025. DOI : 10.63602/252664.

Few and Simple Elements: Lauretta Vinciarelli, the Puglia Project, and the Idea of ‘Spatial Fabric’

J. Devalle

Burning Farm: A Journal on Architecture and Domestic Space. 2025. DOI : 10.63602/252256.

Bypassing Developers: An Interview with Plan Común on Self-Commissioned Housing

J. DevalleC. Marcou

Burning Farm: A Journal on Architecture and Domestic Space. 2025. DOI : 10.63602/252051.

All About San Riemo: A Conversation with SUMMACUMFEMMER

J. Devalle

Burning Farm: A Journal on Architecture and Domestic Space. 2025. DOI : 10.63602/251848.

Don’t Romanticize the Process! An Interview with Lacol on Housing and Cooperatives

J. DevalleT. GiovanazziC. Marcou

Burning Farm: A Journal on Architecture and Domestic Space. 2024. DOI : 10.63602/25522.

Never Innocent: Architecture, Anthropology and the Concept of 'House-Type'

J. Devalle

Burning Farm: A Journal on Architecture and Domestic Space. 2023. DOI : 10.63602/2316.

Reviews

Housing-as-Housing: A Book Review

J. Devalle

Constructs: Magazine of the Yale School of Architecture. 2025.

Talks

Type and Elementary Structure: The Anthropological Turn

J. Devalle

The Fifth Typology, EPFL, 2023-04-04.

Student Projects

Rooms as of Right Countermeasuring zoning from city to household

P. O. Beron

2025

When urgency knocks at the door Converting commercial space into housing & a production workshop in Geneva

A. Ricard-Gauthier

2024

Counter-Housing : Commoning Domestic Space in Berlin

C. Vigneault

2024