S AM Calls: Beatriz Colomina on Instagram Live
17:00 (5 PM) CEST / 11:00 EST
S AM Calls: Beatriz Colomina, internationally renowned architectural historian and theorist
«S AM Calls» is a series of Instagram Live conversations with practitioners and thinkers from the world of architecture on the pressing questions driving the built environment today.
On Thursday, 20 August, at 17:00 (5 PM) CEST / 11:00 EST, please join us on our Instagram page (@s_am_basel) for the next «S AM Calls» conversation between S AM Director Andreas Ruby and Beatriz Colomina.
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 Founding Director of the interdisciplinary Media and Modernity Program at Princeton University and Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Princeton University School of Architecture. Among her many authored books are «X-Ray Architecture» (Lars Müller, 2019), «Are We Human? Notes on an Archeology of Design» (Lars Müller, 2016), «The Century of the Bed» (Verlag für Moderne Kunst, 2015), «Clip/Stamp/Fold: The Radical Architecture of Little Magazines 196X-197X» (Actar, 2010), «Domesticity at War» (MIT Press, 2007), «Privacy and Publicity: Modern Architecture as Mass Media» (MIT Press, 1994), and «Sexuality and Space» (Princeton Architectural Press, 1992). As a curator, Colomina has also realized a number of international exhibitions, including «Clip/Stamp/Fold» (2006), «Playboy Architecture» (2012), «Radical Pedagogies» (2014), and the third Istanbul Design Biennial (2016), which took the title «Are We Human? The Design of the Species». In 2020, she was awarded the Ada Louise Huxtable Prize for Contribution to Architecture.
All conversations take place in English and are recorded. If you missed the previous conversations with Jacques Herzog, Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani, Ludovica Molo, Richard Hassell, Ana Puigjaner, Theo Deutinger, Jeanne Gang, Eyal, Weizman, Rahul Mehrotra, Philippe Rahm, Asymptote Architecture or Lina Ghotmeh you can catch up on our Instagram, Facebook and YouTube channels.
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