B Arch, Pratt Institute School of Architecture
MFA, Hunter College, CUNY
MA, Princeton University
PhD, Princeton University (anticipated Fall 2011)

Alicia Imperiale, Architect, is Assistant Professor of Architectural History/Theory and Design at the Tyler School of Art, Temple University. She is a PhD candidate at Princeton University (2011). Her dissertation is based on the theoretical projects of Italian architect Rinaldo Semino which contextualizes Semino’s work in a larger milieu of megastructural design, cybernetic studies, and radical political events in Italy from 1958-1973. Her essay “Organic Italy: The Troubling Case of Rinaldo Semino,” was recently published in Perspecta 43: Taboo (Yale University Journal of Architecture, MIT Press, 2010). In relation to her work on the politics of the 1960s Alicia is a co-curator of the exhibit Clip, Stamp, Fold: The Architecture of Little Magazines 196X-197X. She is a contributor to the recent book, of the same name published by Actar/Birkhäuser, 2010. Her design and written work focuses on the impact of digital technologies on art, architecture, representation, and fabrication. This research is presented in her book New Flatness: Surface Tension in Digital Architecture (Birkhauser, 2000). Other published essays include “Digital Skins: architecture of surface” in SKIN: Surface, Substance and Design (Princeton Architectural Press, 2002), “Fluid Alliances: Architecture, Politics and Fetish Post 9/11? in LOG 1, “Territories of Protest,” in LOG 13/14, and “Seminal Space: Getting under the Digital Skin,” in RE: SKIN, ed. Mary Flanagan (MIT Press, 2006). She has also taught design and visual theory at Southern California Institute of Architecture, Pratt Institute, Columbia University, Cornell University, and Parsons School of Design. She holds a Bachelor of Architecture from Pratt Institute, an MFA in Combined Media from Hunter College and an MA from Princeton University. She was a Van Alen/Dinkeloo Visiting Fellow at the American Academy in Rome in 1988