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 part of the Theory and Project of Domestic Space Laboratory led by Professor Pier Vittorio Aureli. Devalle holds and M.Arch from the Yale School of Architecture and a B.Arch from the University of Cambridge. Prior to her doctoral studies, she practiced architecture for several years at Selldorf Architects in New York. Her writings on architecture have appeared in publications including Log, The New York Review of Architecture (NYRA), Paprika! and Burning Farm. Devalle is an editor of the Burning Farm: A Journal on Architecture and Domestic Space, and has coedited the forthcoming book Order and Disorder: Selected Essays and Interviews by Manfredo Tafuri 19641994 (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

Conch to Scaffold: Semper and Morris on Dwelling

J. Devalle

LOG. 2025.

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