Biography

Jolanda Devalle is an architect and PhD candidate in the lab TPOD (Theory and Project of Domestic Space) led by Prof. Pier Vittorio Aureli. She holds an M.Arch from Yale and a BA (Hons) from the University of Cambridge. She has worked as design architect in New York at Selldorf Architects and in London at Foster and Partners before beginning her doctoral studies at EPFL. Her writings on architecture have been featured in publications including The New York Review of Architecture (NYRA), Paprika! and Burning Farm. She is co-editor of the architecture journal Burning Farm and co-editor of the forthcoming book Order and Disorder: Selected Essays by Manfredo Tafuri (Birkhäuser, 2025). Devalle’s research focuses on the intersection between architecture, anthropology and domestic space.