Beatriz Colomina

Early life and education Colomina is from Valencia and she began her initial studies of architecture at the Technical university of Valencia. But she later moved to Escola Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Barcelona, Universidad Politécnica de Barcelona, where she completed her education. Here, her interests in History, Theory & Urbanism were nurtured under the guidance of a group of teachers that included Josep Quetglas and Ignasi de Solà-Morales. Notable doctoral students of Colomina's include architectural historian Joanna Merwood-Salisbury.

Awards and fellowships 2020 Ada Louise Huxtable Prize 2007 Canadian Centre for Architecture Mellon Fellowship 2005 Princeton University President's Award for Distinguished Teaching 1995-1996 Samuel H. Kress Senior Fellowship at the CASVA 1987 Graham Foundation Grant SOM Foundation Le Corbusier Foundation The American Academy in Berlin and the Getty Center in Los Angeles

Publishing Colomina has written about architecture and the modern institutions of representation, particularly the printed media, photography, advertising, film and TV. This exhibition was originally held at New York's Storefront for Art and Architecture in 2006. It has since traveled to many locations worldwide, including the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal in 2007; the Architectural Association in London in 2008; and the GAM Cultural Centre in Santiago de Chile in 2013.

Playboy Architecture: 1953–1979 (2012) The exhibition showcased how the fields of Architecture and Design helped shape the Playboy Fantasy and how the Playboy magazine helped spread new and radical architectural ideas. It was displayed in the Netherlands at Bureau Europa (Maastricht) in 2012 and at Elmhurst Art Museum, Elmhurst, Illinois in 2016.

Radical Pedagogies: Reconstructing Architectural Education (2014) The exhibition is the result of an on-going collaborative research project with her doctoral students at Princeton. The research focuses on architectural educational programs and schools that emerged post war and were strongly tied to the social changes of that time. It was first displayed in the Monditalia section of the Venice Biennale 2014 and has been exhibited in several locations since.

Curatorship Colomina was the chief curator of Curated by Vienna: The Century of the Bed in Vienna in 2014 and was co-curator of the third Istanbul Design Biennial (2016) on the theme Are We Human? The Design of the Species.

Personal life Beatriz Colomina is married to New Zealand born architect and author Mark Wigley, who has collaborated with her on several occasions.