The Betsy Writer's Room and Centro Cultural España Miami welcome Spanish Architectal Historian Beatiz Colomina to South Florida.
The Betsy hosts a conversation with Colomina on the importance of women in architecture, as part of our International Women's Month Celebration. The event is free and open to the community, but your RSVP is requested at the TICKETS link above.
On the same day, in the evening, CCEMiami would like to invite you to the conference Couplings: The Secret Life of Modern Architecture with the Spanish architect Beatriz Colomina at Miami Center of Architecture and Design. DETAILS HERE.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Beatriz Colomina is an internationally renowned architectural historian and theorist who has written extensively on questions of architecture and media. Ms. Colomina has taught at Princeton University since 1988, and is the Founding Director of the Program in Media and Modernity at Princeton, Her books include Privacy and Publicity: Modern Architecture as Mass Media (Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1994), which was awarded the 1995 International Book Award by the American Institute of Architects, which has been translated into many languages. In addition, Ms. Colomina has published has published has published Sexuality and Space (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1992), which was awarded the 1993 International Book Award by the American Institute of Architects; and Architectureproduction (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1988). She presented “Women in Architecture,” a keynote lecture in the conference Female Forces, 100 year anniversary, at the Royal Academy Copenhagen. In addition to being the Editor of the Multimedia Section of the JSAH (Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians) she has written numerous other publications and presented lectures throughout the world.
