Professor Beatriz Colomina Awarded 2020 Ada Louise Huxtable Prize
Professor Beatriz Colomina has been awarded the 2020 Ada Louise Huxtable Prize for Contribution to Architecture, one of the top honors at this year's W Awards. Formerly known as the Women in Architecture Awards, the W Awards is now in its eighth year and celebrates women who’ve impacted the industry beyond just where they work. The awards also recognized Pakistan’s first female architect, Yasmeen Lari, as the winner of the 2020 Jane Drew Prize which was awarded last year to architect and Princeton professor Liz Diller.
Colomina, an architecture historian and theorist, began teaching in her native country of Spain after graduating from the Universidad Politécnica de Barcelona. Now a globally-celebrated educator, she’s best-known for starting Princeton University’s Program in Media and Modernity as well as for serving as a long-time professor and director of Graduate Studies in the architecture school. She’s also the author of multiple books including, X-Ray Architecture, Manifesto Architecture: The Ghost of Mies, Are We Human? Notes on an Archeology of Design (based on the 2016 Istanbul Design Biennale), and Privacy and Publicity.
“Beatriz Colomina’s rich and rigorous career has shaped the way we think about architecture, right back to Sexuality & Space—still a much-needed text in architectural education,” said Manon Mollard, editor of The Architectural Review. “Her writing, her curation, and her teaching have been part of the backbone of architectural theory for many years, and will continue to inspire in years to come.
For more information: Architect's Newspaper, W Awards reveal winners of Jane Drew and Ada Louise Huxtable Prizes, By Sydney Franklin, January 21, 2020
