Sofia Nannini is an architectural historian who specializes in the relationship between building materials, society, and culture in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Europe.

She is an Assistant Professor in architectural history at the Politecnico di Torino, Italy. Between 2021 and 2023, she was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Bologna, and adjunct professor at the University of Bologna, Florence, Pavia and at the Italian Institute for Design/IAAD.

She is author of Icelandic Farmhouses: Identity, Landscape and Construction (1790-1945) (Firenze University Press, 2023) and of The Icelandic Concrete Saga: Architecture and Construction (1847–1958) (JOVIS Verlag, 2024).

She is member of the editorial boards of Architectural Histories and of in_bo.

Her research was supported by the Canadian Centre for Architecture (2023) and by the Fondazione C. M. Lerici (2022). She is currently working on a book project tentatively entitled The Mechanization of Life: An Architectural History of Intensive Animal Farming.

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