Beatriz Colomina: The Perversions of Modern Architecture: Everything you wanted to know about it but were afraid to ask
@ The Renaissance Society
Kent Hall, 1020 E 58th St, Chicago IL 60637
Opening Wednesday, May 24th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
In her work, Beatriz Colomina considers concepts of space through lenses of architecture, image, the body and gender. Here she presents a talk titled, “The Perversions of Modern Architecture: Everything you wanted to know about it but were afraid to ask.â€
Modern architecture was never straightforward. Despite the surface rhetoric of rationality, clarity, and efficiency, modern designers engaged with everything that escapes rationality: sexuality, violence, exoteric philosophies, occultism, disease, the psyche, pharmacology, extraterrestrial life, chance, the primitive, the animal, the fetish, etc. Through a series of case studies from the early 20th century till today, of both mainstream figures and misfits, Colomina explores the backwater of modern architecture to reveal the astonishing richness and eccentricity of the field.
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