Biography

Michela Bonomo (Milan, 1989) is a Ph.D. candidate in History and Theory of Architecture under the supervision of Prof. Christophe Van Gerrewey (Lab ACHT) and Prof. Pier Vittorio Aureli (Lab TPOD). Her doctoral research is a critique of the building typology and the ideology of the villa in Italy in the Postwar period investigating concepts of privilege, domesticity, ecology, and subject production. While teaching and assisting Bachelor and Master Architecture students at EPFL she is also a co-creator and organiser of Doc.Days EDAR an annual symposium for PhD students launched in April 2023.
Michela has been an invited external critic at Brighton University and the Architectural Association.

Prior to joining EPFL Michela has been a practicing Architect since 2016, she gained professional experience at Foster Partners and Herzog & De Meuron (London Office) working mainly on high-end residential projects from concept to construction stages and large cultural projects, before taking on projects as a freelance architect in London and Milan.

Michela received her RIBA Part 1 in Architecture at London Metropolitan Architecture, Riba Part 2 Diploma at the Architectural Association School of Architecture ( Diploma 14 with Pier Vittorio Aureli and Maria Shérazade Giudici), and Riba Part 3 at the University of Westminster. Michela was nominated for the Dennis Sharpe Writing Prize (2016) and the Foster and Partners AA Technical Studies Prize (2016). Her student work has been exhibited at the Lisbon Triennale, AA Project Review, and appeared on Something Curated.