We the Bacteria: Notes Toward Biotic Architecture

Beatriz Colomina is Howard Crosby Butler Professor of Architectural History and founding director of the Media and Modernity program at Princeton University. She has written numerous articles on issues related to architecture, art, sexuality, and media. Her books include Sexuality and Space (1992), Privacy and Publicity: Modern Architecture as Mass Media (1994), Domesticity at War (2007), Clip/Stamp/Fold (2010), Are We Human? Notes on an Archaeology of Design (2016) con Mark Wigley, X Ray Architecture (2019), Radical Pedagogies (2022) e Sick Architecture (2025). Colomina è nata a Madrid, ha studiato architettura a Barcellona e vive a New York.

Mark Wigley is a professor and dean emeritus at the Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. As an architectural theorist and historian, Wigley explores the intersection of architecture, art, philosophy, culture, and technology. His publications include White Walls, Designer Dresses (1995), Constant's New Babylon: The Hyper Architecture of Desire (1998), Buckminster Fuller Inc.: Architecture in the Age of Radio (2016), Are We Human? Notes on an Archaeology of Design (2016) con Beatriz Colomina, Cutting Matta Clark: The Anarchitecture Investigation (2018) e Konrad Wachsmann’s Television: Post Architectural Transmissions (2020). Wigley was born in New Zealand, where he trained as an architect and scholar, and lives in New York.