Eduardo Prieto   The battle of ‘modernity’ was waged not only in the field of forms and techniques, but also in that of ideals. It has been necessary to acknowledge that modernity was ‘ideological’ for it to be assessed with detachment, and that the modern ideology h

The Architectural Review   Architectural historian and theorist Beatriz Colomina is the winner of the Ada Louise Huxtable Prize for Contribution to Architecture 2020, which recognises individuals working in the wider architectural industry who have made a significant contribut

A year ago, like a dormant volcano suddenly awakening and erupting, the voices of women rang throughout the world in the heat of a perfect hashtag, #MeToo. The denouncement of sexual harassment by a number of Hollywood actresses broke out of its loca

Beatriz Colomina   Mark Wigley   The human is never simply human. It is never clear where human begins and ends. The body is inhabited and constituted by thousands of microbes – many of which have existed for millions of years – upon which it depends for survival. The human is a mob

Recently awarded the Frederick Kiesler Prize for Architecture and the Arts, Andrés Jaque presented Superpower of Ten at the Jumex Museum in Mexico City. This is a work in process – accompanied by lectures, workshops, and performances – that reinterpr

Luis Fernández-Galiano   La arquitecta valenciana Beatriz Colomina es una de las exportaciones intelectuales más distinguidas de una región que se jacta de su vocación exterior. Directora de los programas de doctorado en la Escuela de Arquitectura de la Universidad de Prince

Marta García Carbonero   E.1027, bajo esta críptica combinación de cifras y letras se esconden no sólo los nombres de dos amantes —la diseñadora Eileen Gray y el arquitecto Jean Badovici— que buscaban su lugar remoto en el mundo, sino también uno de los tempranos ejemplos de

Adela García-Herrera   La modernidad hizo un viaje de ida y vuelta. En la primera parte del trayecto se presentó en el MoMAde Nueva York en 1932, bajo la etiqueta de ‘estilo internacional’ y con Philip Johnson y Henry-Russell Hitchcock como maestros de ceremonia; y al volv

Beatriz Colomina   The entire facade of a typical suburban house has been removed and replaced by a full sheet of transparent glass. Midway back and parallel to the front glass facade, a mirror divides the house in two areas. The front section is revealed to the public

Beatriz Colomina   America had been quite hostile to the ideas of the European architectural avant-garde. But for a relatively brief period, the space of about five years following the end of World War II, it embraced modem architecture. It wasn’t, as with the famous I

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MIT Press   - 416 Pages 

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Puente editores   - 208 Pages 

Beatriz Colomina   Zurich  2019  
Lars Müller Publishers   - 200 Pages 

Beatriz Colomina   The Other

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Actar Publishers   - 766 Pages