His first book, The Fabrication of Virtue, analysed the way that spatial layouts provided opportunities for social reform via their interference with morality, privacy and class. From his early work on prison design and domestic spaces, through to his later work on architectural geometry, Evans sought to articulate the multiple points at which the human imagination could influence architectural form. Evans’ work interrogated the spaces that existed between drawing and building, geometry and architecture, teasing out the points of translation often overlooked. It encourages scholars working on the relationship between the spatial and social domains in architectural drawing, construction and beyond. This series supports outstanding scholarship in the history of architecture and allied fields, building on the work of Professor Robin Evans (1944-1993). Her latest book is X-Ray Architecture (Lars Muller, 2019). In 2016 she was co-curator of the third Istanbul Design Biennial. She has curated a number of exhibitions including Clip/Stamp/Fold (2006), Playboy Architecture (2012) and Radical Pedagogies (2014). Her books include Sexuality and Space (Princeton Architectural Press, 1992), Privacy and Publicity: Modern Architecture as Mass Media (MIT Press, 1994), Domesticity at War (MIT Press, 2007), The Century of the Bed (Verlag fur Moderne Kunst, 2015), Manifesto Architecture: The Ghost of Mies (Sternberg, 2014), Clip/Stamp/Fold: The Radical Architecture of Little Magazines 196X–197X (Actar, 2010), Are We Human? Notes on an Archaeology of Design (Lars Muller, 2016). She writes and curates on questions of design, art, sexuality and media. This lecture explores the new role of the bed as the epicentre of labour, post-labour and love in the age of social mediaīeatriz Colomina is the Howard Crosby Butler Professor of the History of Architecture at Princeton University and a 2018–2019 fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin.
Millions of dispersed beds are taking over from concentrated office buildings. Networked electronic technologies have removed any limit to what can be done in bed. Post-industrialisation collapses work back into the home and takes it further into the bedroom and into the bed itself.
Industrialisation brought with it the eight-hour shift and the radical separation between the home and the office or factory, between rest and work, night and day.
We can no longer think of distinct spaces for work, play, domesticity, and rest. What is private and what is public has become completely blurred.
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