Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Sofia is an architect and Senior Lecturer in Architectural Technology at the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning (ABP) of The University of Melbourne. As a registered architect (2002) with a PhD in Architectural Technology (2006), she co-founded and co-directed (2002-15) two research-based architecture practices specialising in structural, acoustic and interior design. Expert in timber lightweight structures and ecological digital design, she designed and built several timber gridshells and acoustic shells for open-air concerts (2007-15). At the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL, 2016), she developed a cross-industry project on waste reduction, tested through a prototype exhibited at the Architecture Biennale in Lyon (2017). At UoM, she teaches research-infused design studios on acoustic design and investigates emerging pedagogies for teaching architectural technology. Sofia is a member of the International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures (IASS), the IASS Hangai Prize Committee, the UEDLab and the Sustainable and Healthy Environments (SHE) Lab. She is a member and co-founder of the Advanced Digital Design + Fabrication (ADD+F) research hub.
Lecturer in Architectural Technology
Gridshell.it is a firm specialised in timber spatial structures and acoustic shells, which are designed by means of digital design tools and scale prototypes
Tutor for the Graduate/Postgraduate capstone subject ‘Experiences in Industry’, Coordinator: Paolo Tombesi
Digital Fabrication Technologies: Analysing Patterns of Adoption and Innovative Transformations in Architectural Design and Practice