Colomina, Beatriz

Bio Sketch

Beatriz Colomina is an architectural historian and theorist (Princeton), whose work focuses on the relations among architecture, media, publicity, and gender — from the photographic/published construction of modern architecture (Le Corbusier, Privacy and Publicity) to the domestic and the everyday. She is a central figure in Geoffrey's semiotics & representation and modernity & dwelling areas.

Key Works

• Privacy and Publicity: Modern Architecture as Mass Media (1994) — modern architecture constituted through its media/image circulation.
• "War on Architecture: E.1027" (1993) — Le Corbusier's defacement of Eileen Gray's house; gender, violence, authorship.

Key Concepts

Concepts associated with this author that have pages in this wiki:

• Everyday Life
• Authorship

Relevance to Geoffrey's Research

Colomina matters to Geoffrey's semiotics & representation area: her argument that modern architecture is made through its media image (publicity, photography) is a direct predecessor of the contemporary Instagram-architecture concern, and her reading of Le Corbusier and Eileen Gray interrogates the myth of the male master-genius and authorship.

Source Support

Source notes in this wiki drawn from this author's work:

• War on Architecture: E.1027
• Viral Architecture, or the Unintentional Architecture Criticism of Social Media
• The Future Is Hairy
• Embodied Spaces in Digital Times: Exploring the Role of Instagram in Shaping Temporal Dimensions and Perceptions of Architecture