Professor of Architecture, Princeton University
Beatriz Colomina is an internationally renowned architectural historian and theorist who has written extensively on questions of architecture, art, technology, sexuality and media. She is the Howard Crosby Butler professor of the history of architecture at Princeton and the founding director of the university’s interdisciplinary Media and Modernity program.
Her books include “Privacy and Publicity: Modern Architecture as Mass Media” (1994), “Domesticity at War” (2007), “Clip, Stamp, Fold: The Radical Architecture of Little Magazines 196X to 197X” (2010), “Are We Human? Notes on an Archaeology of Design” (2016), “X-Ray Architecture” (2019) and “Radical Pedagogies” (2022).
Her exhibitions include “Clip/Stamp/Fold” (2006), “Playboy Architecture 1953–1979” (2012), “Radical Pedagogies” (2014) and “Sick Architecture” (2022). In 2016, she was co-curator of the 3rd Istanbul Design Biennial in 2016.
She is the recipient of an honorary doctorate from the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm and in 2020, she was awarded the Ada Louise Huxtable Prize for her contributions to the field of architecture.
Alongside Mark Wigley, she is a co-curator of the “We the Bacteria: Notes Toward Biotic Architecture” exhibition at the 2025 Triennale Milano.
