About

Beatriz
Colomina

architecture historian and theorist, New York

Beatriz Colomina is Professor of Architecture History and Theory, and director of the PhD Program of the School of Architecture, Princeton University, Princeton. She is the founding director of Princeton’s Program in Media and Modernity, which takes an interdisciplinary view of the links between culture and technology. Colomina has served on the editorial boards of the journals Assemblage, Daidalos, and Grey Room. Her books include: Domesticity at War (2007); Doble exposición: Arquitectura a través del arte Double Exposure: Architecture through Art; Cold War Hothouses: Inventing Postwar Culture from Cockpit to Playboy (2004); and Sexuality and Space (1992). The exhibition Clip/Stamp/Fold: The Radical Architecture of Little Magazines, which she curated together with Princeton PhD students, was presented at the Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York, and traveled to Documenta 12, Kassel, 2007, among other locations. Colomina lives and works in New York. [Last updated 2010]