Beatriz Colomina
Professor, History and Theory
Director of Graduate Studies, Ph.D. Program
Director, Program in Media and Modernity
Titulo de Arquitecto, Ph.D., Escola Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Barcelona
Beatriz Colomina is an internationally renowned architectural historian and theorist who has
written extensively on questions of architecture and media. Ms. Colomina has taught in the School
since 1988, and is the Founding Director of the Program in Media and Modernity at Princeton University,
a graduate program that promotes the interdisciplinary study of forms of culture that came to prominence
during the last century and looks at the interplay between culture and technology. In 2006-2007 she curated,
with a group of Princeton Ph.D. students, the exhibition "Clip/Stamp/Fold: The Radical Architecture of
Little Magazines 196X-197X" at the Storefront for Art and Architecture in New York and the Canadian Centre
for Architecture (CCA) in Montreal. The exhibition continues to travel around the world, most recently
in the Museum of Design of Barcelona and the Colegio de Arquitectos de Murcia. It will open at the NAI
Maastricht in June, and then travel to Santiago de Chile and Montevideo. Over 100 reviews and articles
on the exhibition have been published worldwide. An exhibition catalog is forthcoming from ACTAR in September.
Her books include Privacy and Publicity: Modern Architecture as Mass Media (Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1994),
which was awarded the 1995 International Book Award by the American Institute of Architects, has already
been translated into many languages and is coming out in Spanish and in Turkish. In addition, Ms. Colomina
has published Sexuality and Space (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1992), which was awarded the
1993 International Book Award by the American Institute of Architects; and Architectureproduction
(New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1988). She has contributed to many volumes, including The Banham
Lectures, Philip Johnson: The Constancy of Change, Beyond Transparency and catalogues of the work of Dan
Graham, Muntadas and SANAA, among others. In addition she has published Cold War Hot Houses: Inventing
Postwar Culture from Cockpit to Playboy, co-edited with AnnMarie Brennan and Jeannie Kim (New York:
Princeton Architectural Press, 2004; Doble exposición: Arquitectura a través del arte (Double Exposure:
Architecture through Art) (Madrid: Akal, 2006), and Domesticity at War (Barcelona: ACTAR and MIT Press,
2007). She was selected to be a Juror for the 2010 Venice Biennale and a juror in the architectural
competition for the new headquarters of CAF (Corporación Andina de Fomento), in Caracas, Venezuela. She
presented "Women in Architecture," a keynote lecture in the conference Female Forces, 100 year
anniversary, at the Royal Academy Copenhagen. In addition to being the Editor of the Multimedia Section of
the JSAH (Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians) she has written numerous other publications
and presented lectures throughout the world, including at MoMA, the MAXXI museum in Rome, the Guggenheim
museum, DoCoMoMo in Rio de Janeiro, Brasilia, Chandigarh, Osaka, Tokyo, Florence, Oslo, Thesaloniki, Patras,
Guadalajara, Berlin, Frankfurt, Cologne, Ohio, Pamplona, Porto, Toronto, Houston, Texas AM, Yale, Chicago
and Harvard University.
