Dr Sabrina Puddu

Biography

Sabrina joined Trinity Hall as the Director of Studies for Architecture in 2024, having worked at the University of Cambridge since 2022 as a Design Fellow and as a dissertation supervisor for the BA (Hons) in Architecture, the MArch and the MAUD (MPhil) course.

Sabrina is a Sardinian-Italian architect and researcher, trained in Italy and the UK at the Architectural Association School of Architecture. She has extensive teaching experience at undergraduate, Master’s and Doctoral levels having lectured design and history and theory of architecture at UK institutions like the Architectural Association School of Architecture, the London’s Royal College of Art (City Design Programme), the University of Greenwich, and Central Saint Martins-University of Arts London. As a practising architect, she has worked on large-scale housing projects for architectural offices and on small-scale domestic projects and retrofit as an independent architect.

As a researcher, Sabrina worked internationally at KU Leuven (Belgium) as a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Post-doc Fellow, at the University of Cagliari (Italy), and in the US as a Visiting Scholar at GSAPP, Columbia University. Her research explores the role of major public institutions across the divide between the urban and rural conditions. Her main research project, Territories of Incarceration, focuses on the spatial paradigms of carcerality, touching on debates about restorative justice, the abolition of prisons and the territoriality of carceral institutions. More recently, she is engaged in research on the afterlife of carceral islands and penal colonies, a work at the intersection of architecture, history, critical criminology, heritage studies, and photography. Sabrina has co-authored two books and guest edited a special issue for The Journal of Architecture. She is the author of several book chapters for academic books, blog entries, and journal articles for architectural magazines and journals like AA Files, San Rocco, The Funambulist, Territorio, Rassegna di Architettura e Urbanistica, Architecture and Culture, Trans and Domus.