Beatriz Colomina teaches architecture at the University of Princeton (U.S.A.). In 1995, she received a National Book Award from the American Institute of Architects for this book, Privacy and Publicity (MIT 1994). She is the author of numerous articles on architecture, which were notably published in the American magazines Assemblage or Any and in exhibition catalogues (F. Kiesler, Centre G. Pompidou. 1996). Beatriz Colomina also gives lectures throughout the world.

Through the works of two major figures of the Modern Movement - Adolf Loos and Le Corbusier - Beatriz Colomina examines the architecture which only became modern with its confrontation with the mass media. Instead of broaching modern architecture as an artistic practice that opposes mass media, Colomina considers the emerging systems of communication - which will define the twentieth-century culture - as the real centre of modern architecture production.

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