Sick Architecture - Beatriz Colomina in conversation with Nikolaus Hirsch
Apr 27, 2022, 10:37 AM
In this episode CIVA Artistic Director Nikolaus Hirsch talks to Beatriz Colomina (Princeton University), guest curator of the Sick Architecture exhibition at CIVA.
Architecture and sickness are tightly intertwined. Architectural discourse always weaves itself through theories of body and brain, constructing the architect as a kind of doctor and the client as patient. Architecture has been portrayed as both a form of prevention and cure for thousands of years. With Sick Architecture, CIVA and guest curator Beatriz Colomina (Princeton University) highlight a topic that has shaped our lives since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic.
More on the exhibition
Image credits: Hans Hollein, Non-physical environment, 1967 (detail). Private archive Hollein.
Architecture and sickness are tightly intertwined. Architectural discourse always weaves itself through theories of body and brain, constructing the architect as a kind of doctor and the client as patient. Architecture has been portrayed as both a form of prevention and cure for thousands of years. With Sick Architecture, CIVA and guest curator Beatriz Colomina (Princeton University) highlight a topic that has shaped our lives since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic.
More on the exhibition
Image credits: Hans Hollein, Non-physical environment, 1967 (detail). Private archive Hollein.