Beatriz Colomina

Beatriz Colomina (born 1952) is an architecture historian, theorist and curator. She is the founding director of the Program in Media and Modernity at Princeton University,^[1] the Howard Crosby Butler Professor of the History of Architecture and director of graduate studies (PhD program) in the School of Architecture.^[2]

Beatriz Colomina

1952 (age 71–72)

Madrid, Spain

American, Spanish

Art history, Architectural history, Architectural theory

Early life and education[edit]

Colomina is from Valencia and she began her initial studies of architecture in Technical university of Valencia. But she later moved to Escola Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Barcelona, Universidad Politécnica de Barcelona, to complete her education.^[3] Here, her interests in History, Theory & Urbanism were nurtured under the guidance of a group of teachers that included Josep Quetglas and Ignasi de Solà-Morales.^[3] Even as a student, she began working for the Department of History, Theory and Urbanism by translating two of Tafuri's writings, with an Italian friend. Shortly after her graduation, she was hired by the Department of Urbanism.^[3] Her acquaintance with Richard Sennett lead to a fellowship in New York Institute for the Humanities and she moved to the USA in 1981.^[3] The people she met at this interdisciplinary institute, like Carl Schorske, Susan Sontag and Wolfgang Schivelbusch had a major influence in her later work.^[3]

2020 Ada Louise Huxtable Prize

2007 Canadian Centre for Architecture Mellon Fellowship

2005 Princeton University President's Award for Distinguished Teaching

1995-1996 Samuel H. Kress Senior Fellowship at the CASVA

1987 Graham Foundation Grant

SOM Foundation

Le Corbusier Foundation

The American Academy in Berlin and the Getty Center in Los Angeles

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Personal life[edit]

Beatriz Colomina is married to New Zealand born architect and author Mark Wigley, who has collaborated with her on several occasions.^[13]^[15]^[16]

ISBN 978-3-03778-443-3

X-Ray Architecture, Lars Müller Publishers, 2019.

ISBN 978-3-03778-511-9

Are We Human? Notes on an Archeology of Design, (with Mark Wigley), Lars Müller Publishers, 2019.

Das Andere/The Other: A Journal for the Introduction of Western Culture into Austria, MAK Center for Art and Architecture, 2016. 3037784814, 978-3037784815

ISBN

ISBN 3869845287, 978-3869845289

The Century of the Bed, Verlag für Moderne Kunst, 2015.

. ISBN 3956790006, 978-3956790003

Manifesto Architecture: The Ghost of Mies, Sternberg Press, 2014

. ISBN 8496954528, 978-8496954526

Clip/Stamp/Fold: The Radical Architecture of Little Magazines 196X-197X, Actar, 2010

ISBN 0262033615, 978-0262033619

Domesticity at War, The MIT Press, 2007.

ISBN 0262032147, 978-0262032148

Privacy and Publicity: Modern Architecture as Mass Media, The MIT Press, 1994.

. ISBN 1878271083, 978-1878271082

Sexuality and Space, Princeton Architectural Press, 1992

Wilkinson, Tom. 2020. “Ada Louise Huxtable Prize - Beatriz Colomina : The Internationally Acclaimed Feminist Writer Shines a Spotlight on Sexual Prejudice and Representation in Architecture.” Architectural Review, no. 1469 (March): 108–111.

Beatriz Colomina