Beatriz Colomina & Mark Wigley - Aarhus School of Architecture

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BEATRIZ COLOMINA & MARK WIGLEY

Podcast with Beatriz Colomina, Mark Wigley and moderator by Matīss Groskaufmanis, with the title We The Bacteria. The session is recorded at OPEN25, 19th September 2025. Introduction by Lawrence Sprauge.

Weaving together history, philosophy, technology, and critical theory, the two renowned architectural historians and theorists, Beatriz Colomina and Mark Wigley, re-enter the architectural discourse, moving toward a biotic architecture. How can we challenge the conventional distinctions between the natural and the artificial, the human and the non-human, and the designed and the undesigned?

Colomina is Howard Crosby Butler Professor of the History of Architecture at Princeton University, and Wigley is Professor and Dean Emeritus at Columbia University, New York.

The session is titled WE THE BACTERIA, and is moderated by Matīss Groskaufmanis, Associate Professor at the Aarhus School of Architecture.

Weaving together history, philosophy, technology, and critical theory, the two renowned architectural historians and theorists, Beatriz Colomina and Mark Wigley, re-enter the architectural discourse, moving toward a biotic architecture. How can we challenge the conventional distinctions between the natural and the artificial, the human and the non-human, and the designed and the undesigned?

Colomina is Howard Crosby Butler Professor of the History of Architecture at Princeton University, and Wigley is Professor and Dean Emeritus at Columbia University, New York.

The session is titled WE THE BACTERIA, and is moderated by Matīss Groskaufmanis, Associate Professor at the Aarhus School of Architecture.

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