Radical Pedagogies

Believing that some forms of education can disrupt rather than reinforce our understanding of the world, Radical Pedagogies explores a series of educational experiments that played a crucial role in shaping architectural discourse and practice in the second half of the 20th century. Part of an ongoing collaborative research project by a team of PhD candidates in the School of Architecture at Princeton University led by Professor Beatriz Colomina.

About Beatriz Colomina

Beatriz Colomina is an internationally renowned architectural historian and theorist who has written extensively on questions of architecture and media. Colomina has taught in the Princeton School of Architecture since 1988 where she became the Founding Director of the Program in Me­dia and Modernity. Together with a group of Princeton Ph.D. students, she curated the exhibitions Clip/Stamp/Fold: The Radical Architecture of Little Magazines 196X–197X, Radical Pedagogies and Playboy Magazine and the Architecture 1953–1979. Her books include Sexuality and Space (Princeton Architectural Press, 1992), Privacy and Publicity: Modern Architecture as Mass Media (The MIT Press, 1994) and Domesticity at War (ACTAR and MIT Press, 2007). Together with Mark Wigley, Colomina is Chief Curator of the 2016 Istanbul Design Biennale.