While flying to Spain almost every month, more than 20 years, Beatriz Colomina (Madrid, 1952) lives in New York. Professor at Princeton, is one of the great historians of architecture. We eat in the Caixaforum Herzog & de Meuron. Calls broth and hake. The talk cools the food. "I do not drink much, but if women go out drinking water, ask a drink", inviting.
Colomina chose to investigate the architecture, rather than build, to differentiate himself from his architect father. And in the Humanities Institute in New York, who ran Richard Sennett, discovered a wider world. "I saw that modern architecture was like a manual tuberculosis: the outdoors, sun decks, ventilation, cleaning. The had studied from all points of view except the most obvious: the clinic." He was 28. Some architects dissuaded. But today, 28 years later, working in the book X-Ray Architecture
Working with philosophers and sociologists, he says, he widened his eyes. "Susan Sontag published books dense, but clear. This is written for oneself. Architects are unbearable writing," she says.
Working with philosophers and sociologists, he says, he widened his eyes. "Susan Sontag published books dense, but clear. This is written for oneself. Architects are unbearable writing," she says.
His pioneering thesis addressed the relationship between media and modern architecture. "Adolf Loos and criticized those who designed to go in the journals in the fin de siecle Vienna." In the Fondation Le Corbusier found boxes of catalogs from department stores along with letters of Gropius. "No answer to other architects, but he kept order catalogs. "So he realized that the most famous architect of the twentieth century advertising techniques used. He put a Voisin front of their homes prior to photography." Associating the luxury of a sports car with its houses was a great blow. It was the first who understood the media and was well into the twentieth century architecture. "
Colomina croquettes hurry and go to coffee. Architects, he suggests, look for seamless teachers." We want to worship gods. " She claimed to professionals invisible: the great architects. The Eileen Gray's E1027 house in southern France became his obsession. "historically not recognized authored by Gray and another of Le Corbusier. Badovici came to be attributed to the customer. Everything before telling the truth. "What happened in literature, women who wrote the texts of their husbands, there was also among the architects." Scotsman Charles R. Mackintosh spent his life ensuring that the genius was his wife, Margaret McDonald. But nobody believed him. "The media want to see a single figure and preferably male. It does not happen only to women. It also happens with the teams. Carme Pinos was instrumental in the Architecture of Enric Miralles. There is a change when they separate. Then Benedetta Tagliabue, his second wife, partner, introduced color. Worried about the user. All this does not is recognized. "architects" Couples cancel? "Not so with their female partners." He explains his theory: "The architecture is based on the idea of \u200b\u200bgenius only when, in fact, is collaboration, as cinema: everyone should go in the credits.
Zabalbeascoa, Anatxu. "Interview with Beatriz Colomina. El Pais. (April 20, 2009)
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