Beatriz Colomina
Beatriz Colomina is an internationally renowned architectural historian and theorist whose work addresses architecture, art, technology, sexuality, and media, and has been published in more than 25 languages. She is the Howard Crosby Butler Professor of Architecture and the Founding Director of the interdisciplinary Media and Modernity Program at Princeton University.
Her books include Privacy and Publicity: Modern Architecture as Mass Media (MIT Press, 1994), Domesticity at War (MIT Press and ACTAR, 2007), Clip/Stamp/Fold (ACTAR, 2010), Are We Human? Notes on an Archaeology of Design (Lars Muller, 2016), X-Ray Architecture (Lars Muller, 2019), Radical Pedagogies (MIT Press, 2022), Sick Architecture (MIT Press, 2025), and We the Bacteria: Notes Toward Biotic Architecture (Lars Muller, 2025).
Her exhibitions include Clip/Stamp/Fold (2006), Playboy Architecture (2012), Radical Pedagogies (2014), Sick Architecture (2022), and, recently, We the Bacteria: Notes Toward Biotic Architecture, Triennale de Milano, Milan, 2025, and The Other Side of the Hill, Venice Biennale 2025. In 2016, she co-curated the 3rd Istanbul Design Biennial with Mark Wigley on the theme Are We Human?
Colomina holds an honorary doctorate from KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm (2018), received the Ada Louise Huxtable Prize in 2020 for her contributions to architecture, and was inducted in 2022 as a member of the Royal Academy of Doctors of Spain.
