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 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

Selected publications

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

Jolanda Devalle
Published in Burning Farm: A Journal on Architecture and Domestic Space in 2025