Beatrice Colomina

Beatrice Colomina

Beatriz Colomina (* 1952 in Madrid , Spain ) is an internationally renowned architecture theorist , media scientist and professor .

life and work

Beatriz Colomina studied at the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Barcelona (ETSAB) , where she later also taught. After teaching at MIT in 1982, she was appointed to Columbia University in New York City . In 1988 she moved to the School of Architecture, Princeton , where she became director of graduate studies . She is the founder of the interdisciplinary course Media and Modernity at Princeton University. Colomina is the daughter of an architect, she lives in New York and has a daughter.

Colomina worked on the editorial staff of the architecture magazine Daidalos and the academic magazine Gray Room .

As a curator , Colomina and a group of doctoral students developed the exhibition Clip / Stamp / Fold: The Radical Architecture of Little Magazines 196X - 197X . This project was shown at Documenta 12 in 2007 .

Colomina has received numerous awards. These include scholarships from the Fondation Le Corbusier and the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (CASVA) and the Andrew W. Mellon Senior Fellowship. Colomina is currently working on a project called X-Ray Architecture: Illness as a Metaphor for which she received a research grant from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts .

She has published on the subjects of architecture , mass media, print media, photography , advertising , film and television . She is the author of numerous professional articles and has given lectures around the world. She received the AIA International Architecture Book Award for the publications Privacy and Publicity (1994) and Sexuality and Space (1992).

"Sexual fantasies and architectural visions are inextricably linked"

- Beatrice Colomina

Colomina was a juror at Akademie Schloss Solitude from 2009 to 2011 . She is one of the scholarship holders of the American Academy in Berlin in the winter semester 2014.

Publications (selection)

• Beatriz Colomina, Mark Wigley: Are we human? The Archeology of Design. Lars Müller Publishers 2016, ISBN 978-3-03778-511-9
• Beatriz Colomina, Mark Wigley: Are We Human? The Design of the Species. Lars Müller Publishers 2016, ISBN 978-3-03778-512-6
• Architecture production. Beatriz Colomina, Joan Ockman, 1988, ISBN 978-0-910413-20-6
• Privacy and publicity: modern architecture as mass media 1996. ISBN 978-0-262-53139-9 .
• Sexuality & Space. In: Princeton Papers on Architecture. 1996, ISBN 978-1-878271-08-2 .
• Louise Bourgeois: Memory And Architecture (with contributions by Mieke Bal , Lynne Cooke, Beatriz Colomina and others) - exhib. Cat. Madrid, 2000, ISBN 978-84-8003-188-2 .
• Rachel Whiteread: Transient Spaces. Craig Houser, Beatriz Colomina, AM Homes, 2001, ISBN 978-3-7757-1098-5 .
• Frank Gehry, Architect by Frank O. Gehry (Editor), Mildred Friedman, Beatriz Colomina, 2001, ISBN 978-0-8109-6929-2 .
• Cold War Hothouses: Inventing Postwar Culture, from Cockpit to Playboy. by AnnMarie Brennan, Jeannie Kim, Beatriz Colomina, 2004, ISBN 978-1-56898-302-8 .
• The Work of Charles and Ray Eames: A Legacy of Invention. Beatriz Colomina, Joseph Giovannini, 2005, ISBN 978-0-8109-9232-0 .
• Thomas Demand Catalog Serpentine Gallery London, 2006, ISBN 978-3-8296-0249-5 .
• Domesticity at was. 2007, ISBN 978-0-262-03361-9 .
• The World of Madelon Vriesendorp: Paintings Beatriz Colomina, Douglas Coupland, Charles Jencks, 2008, ISBN 978-1-902902-63-0 .
• Spatial plan versus Plan Libre: Adolf Loos and Le Corbusier, 1919-1930. Johan van de Beek, Beatriz Colomina, Arjan Hebly, Jan de Heer, Stanislaus von Moos , Max Risselada, Adolf Loos, Le Corbusier, 2008, ISBN 978-90-6450-665-9 .
• Philip Johnson - The constancy of change. Beatriz Colomina, Peter Eisenman , 2009, ISBN 978-0-300-12181-0 .
• together with Birgit Pelzer, Dan Graham, Mark Francis: Dan Graham . 2010, ISBN 978-0-7148-3964-6 .
• with Luca Cerizza: Carlo Mollino: Maniera Moderna . Ed .: Chris Dercon. 2011, ISBN 978-3-86335-020-8 .
• Alison , Peter Smithson : From the House of the Future to a House for Today. By Beatriz Colomina and Dirk van den Heuvel, 2013, ISBN 978-90-6450-528-7 .
• Ludwig Mies van der Rohe: Skyscraper Friedrichstrasse 1921 . In: Carsten Krohn (ed.): The unbuilt Berlin . DOM, Berlin 2010 ( architecture.mit.edu [PDF]).

Web links

• Literature by and about Beatriz Colomina in the catalog of the German National Library
• Beatriz Colomina at Princeton University
• OnArchitecture: Interview with Beatriz Colomina ( Memento from June 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (Video)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Princeton: Beatriz Colomina ( memento of April 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) accessed on February 14, 2016 (English).
2. ↑ akal: Beatriz Colomina accessed on April 19, 2014 (Spanish).
3. ↑ Princeton University: Media and Modernity, accessed April 19, 2014.
4. ↑ El Pais January 23, 2013: Interview with Beatriz Colomina accessed on April 19, 2014 (Spanish).
5. ↑ Beatrice Colomina. In: arch INFORM ; Retrieved April 19, 2014.
6. ↑ architectureau: Paper architecture: Beatriz Colomina accessed on April 19, 2014 (English).
7. ↑ Sedus: The Making of Your Magazines archplus documenta 12 - Exhibition and project room as office landscape ( Memento of the original from April 20, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. accessed on April 19, 2014 (English). 
8. ↑ CCA Mellon Foundation: Mellon Lecture accessed on April 19, 2014 (English).
9. ↑ Christine Bucher: Architecture as a Narrative Medium, accessed on April 19, 2014 (English).
10. ↑ Voices: Beatriz Colomina ( Memento of the original from April 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. accessed on April 19, 2014 (English). 
11. ↑ Playboy Architecture lecture by Beatriz Colomina in Frankfurt , accessed on April 19, 2014.
12. ^ Akademie Schloss Solitude: Beatriz Colomina , accessed on April 19, 2014.
13. ↑ American Academy: Class Prize Fellows ( Memento of the original from January 1, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.