In 1988, Laura Andreini co-founded Studio Archea with Marco Casamonti and Giovanni Polazzi. She is associate professor of Architectural and Urban Com­position at the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Florence, where she graduated in architecture in 1990 and received her research doctorate in 1997. In addition to her work in architectural design and teaching, she has also exten­sively contributed over the years to the critical study of architectural design and topics. She has been on many editorial committees for magazines and book seri­es, published essays and articles and spoken at many international conferences and symposiums. After serving as an editor from 1997 until 2003, she was made deputy editor of “Area”, now published by the Tecniche Nuove group of Milan. In 2011, Forma publishing house put her in charge of designing and editing the “ONE” book series about contemporary Italian architecture. Since January 2012, she has been managing editor of Forma and editor of its On The Road book series.