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Beatriz Colomina is a Professor at Princeton University and a leading figure in architectural theory, focusing on the intersection of architecture, health, and biopolitics. Her exhibition Sick Architecture at CIVA in Brussels (2022) explores the paradoxical relationship between architectural design and disease, emphasizing how modern architecture often creates conditions for sickness while claiming to promote health. She has taught seminars on pandemics and architecture, influencing students like Iván López Munuera and Victoria Bugge Øye, whose research on HIV/AIDS and medicalized spaces is featured in the exhibition.
Colomina’s work in X-Ray Architecture (2019) establishes the historical link between tuberculosis and modernist design, later expanded through the Sick Architecture project to include topics like disability, colonial medicine, and autoimmune diseases. The exhibition’s transhistorical and transscalar approach—from pills to planetary systems—challenges traditional dichotomies of healthy/sick and normal/pathological, advocating for architecture that accommodates diverse human conditions. Collaborators such as Meredith TenHoor and David Gissen further interrogate anti-psychiatry movements and disability-inclusive design.
- Key Themes: Architecture as a biopolitical tool, medicalization of borders, disability studies, and the normalization of disease in design.
- Publications: X-Ray Architecture (2019) and curated e-flux articles on topics ranging from planetary health to psychopolitical denialism.
- Collaborations: Co-organized Sick Architecture with Nikolaus Hirsch and Nick Axel, featuring works by Elizabeth Diller, Philippe Rahm, and others.
