Daria Ricchi is a writer and architecture historian; she holds a Ph.D. in History and Theory of Architecture from Princeton University. Her dissertation was published as a book Writing Architecture in Modern Italy: Narratives, Historiography, and Myths (2020) on the different narratives and modes of writing architectural history. She is working on biographies and their influence on history writing and on the therapeutic role of space and architecture. She is Senior Lecturer in History and Theory of Architecture at Oxford Brookes University, UK.