Dr. Linda Stagni

Additional information

Linda Stagni is currently a postoctoral reasearcher and lecturer at the Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture (gta) at the Chair of Prof. Maarten Delbeke where she also earned her PhD in 2023. She was educated at the Politecnico di Milano and the University of Stuttgart and completed a MAS in history and theory of architecture at ETH.

Her dissertation thesis focused on the Swiss art historian Joseph Gantner’s tenure as editor of the professional architectural magazine Das Werk (1923–1927). Promoted by two professional associations – the Swiss Werkbund and the Swiss Architects Association – the 56 issues of Das Werk edited by Gantner show a complex and iterative entanglement between the anatomy of the magazine, the disciplinary transfer of knowledge between the architectural profession and art history, and the role played by “Swissness” and national identity.

More broadly, Linda’s research interests focus on the mediatization and representations of architecture and its projection toward the public. This includes the construction of the visual culture in architecture, anatomy and mechanics of media processes, spatial representations’ structure.

Linda has presented his work in numerous international conferences and colloquia. She will co-chair the Session “On Buldings that No Longer Exitst” at the EAHN conference in Athens 2024. She also co-organized the summer school On the Threshold: Guidebooks and Visions of Rome at the Instituto Svizzero in Rome. She has published articles and papers in magazines such as gta paper, werk,bauen+wohnen, Novecento transnazionale.

She is a founding member of the DocTalks, a series of weekly meetings that provide a platform for informal discussion and debate among peers about research topics and methods. She is a member of [wohn]zeitschriften, an international network of scholars that engage with the question of domestic spaces and their mediatization in 20th-century periodical publications.

Publication

Postdoctoral Publications

Stagni, Linda, “Spatial Expectations: Pilgrims, Art History, and Einsiedeln,” in OASE 119, forthcoming 2024.

Stagni, Linda, “Die Beständigkeit des Flüchtigen. Das Werk unter Joseph Gantner vor Hundert Jahren,” in werk, bauen+wohnen, 11 (2023), 59–62.

Doctoral Publications

Stagni, Linda, and Gianoncelli, Claudio, “Oh mamma…mi è caduto il cornicione!” in gta papers: The Cornice, 6 (2021) 114–119. C

Stagni, Linda, and Alessi, Alberto, “Le Facoltà dell’architettura,” in: Angélil, Marc, Biechtler, Heike, Dietz, Dieter, and Käferstein, Johannes, Building for Architecture Education, Zurich: 2021, 182–185. 

Stagni, Linda, “Competing Visualizations: How Architecture Became its Image,” in International Journal of Cultural Research: After Post-Photography, 37 (2020), 115–129.

Stagni, Linda, et.al. (equal authorship), Städtebau als politische Kultur. Der Architekt und Theoretiker Hans Bernoulli: Textanthologie, Zurich: 2019.

Stagni, Linda, “Ricordi, speranze e illusione del tempo: Il deserto dei Tartari,” in trans magazin: Youth, 34 (2019) 39–44.

Stagni, Linda, “L’architettura moderna svizzera nazionale e internazionale, la rivista di architettura e le sue strategie interpretative,” in ‘900 Transnazionale 2: Prospettive transnazionali per la storia dell’arte, 3 (2019), 44–60. 

Stagni, Linda, “A Space Oddity,” in werk, bauen+wohnen, 104/3 (2017), 76–77. 

Pre-doctoral publications

Stagni, Linda, “International Architektur,” in: Ferlenga, Alberto, and Biraghi, Marco (eds.), Architettura del Novecento. Teorie, scuole, eventi, Torino: 2012, 487–494. 

Stagni, Linda, “Chinatown alla conquista del pianeta. Connivenza o seduzione?” in: Gizmo (ed.), MMX Architettura Zona Critica, Rovereto: 2010, 47–53. T

Editorship

Stagni, Linda, co-editor of trans magazin: Zweifel / Doubt, Zurich: 2016, 174 pages.

Stagni, Linda, co-editor of trans magazine: Kuratiert / Curated, Zurich: 2015, 148 pages.