5 documents
Sick Architecture
Diary of a Disease
Beatriz Colomina
Architecture Essay
Posted: December 4, 2020
Subjects
Covid-19, Health & Disease, Public Space, Crisis, Intimacy
Sick Architecture
Editorial
Beatriz Colomina, Iván López Munuera, Nick Axel, and Nikolaus Hirsch
Architecture Essay
Posted: November 9, 2020
Category
Architecture, Modernism, Bodies
Subjects
Health & Disease, Biopolitics
Superhumanity
Editorial—Post-Labor, Psychopathology, Plasticity
Nick Axel, Beatriz Colomina, Nikolaus Hirsch, Jihoi Lee, Anton Vidokle, and Mark Wigley
Architecture Essay
Posted: February 20, 2018
Category
Psychology & Psychoanalysis, Humanism
Subjects
Editorial, Consciousness & Cognition
Superhumanity
Closing editorial
Nick Axel, Beatriz Colomina, Nikolaus Hirsch, Anton Vidokle, and Mark Wigley
Architecture Essay
Posted: February 17, 2017
Category
Humanism, Design
Subjects
Editorial, Futures
# 66
X-Screens: Röntgen Architecture
Beatriz Colomina
When Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen first published his very recent discovery of the X-ray in December of 1895 in an article entitled “On a New Kind of Rays, a Preliminary Communication,” he wrote about a new form of transparency in which “bodies behave to the X-rays as turbid media to light.” 1 The invisible rays are described as a “medium” that penetrates objects and is revealed on screens. A floating technical surface acts as the most intimate witness of the otherwise hidden interior. An…
e-flux Journal
Posted: October 1, 2015
Category
Technology, Photography, Image, Architecture
Subjects
Science, Health & Disease