Carla Molinari is Senior Lecturer in Architecture and BA Course Leader at Anglia Ruskin University. She teaches architectural history and theory, and Design Studio.

Carla has a PhD in Theory and Criticism of Architecture, and has published on cinema and architecture, on the conception of architectural space, and on cultural regeneration.

Before joining ARU in 2022, she taught at Leeds Beckett University, University of Gloucestershire, University of Liverpool, and University Sapienza of Rome.

In 2020 she has been awarded a Paul Mellon Research Grant for her archival research on Gordon Cullen and in 2016, she was awarded a British Academy Fellowship by the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei for her research on Peter Greenaway and Sergei Eisenstein.

Carla’s research engages with architecture and media, innovative interpretations of montage and cinematic design methods, theory and history of space, and urban narrative strategies.