Beatriz colomina biography

Spanish-born American historian (born )

Beatriz Colomina (born ) is a Spanish-American architecturehistorian, theorist and curator. She is the founding director of the Program in Media and Modernity at Princeton University,^[1] the Howard Crosby Butler Professor of the History of Architecture and director of graduate studies (PhD program) in the School of Architecture.^[2]

Early life and education

Colomina is from Valencia and she began her initial studies of architecture in Technical university of Valencia.

But she later moved to Escola Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Barcelona, Universidad Politécnica de Barcelona, to complete her education.^[3] 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.^[3] Even as a student, she began working for the Department of History, Theory and Urbanism by translating