Architecture for Modern Leisure

Beatriz Colomina teaches History of Architecture at Princeton University, writes and curates on questions of design, art, sexuality and media. Author of 'Sexuality and Space', 'Privacy and Publicity: Modern Architecture as Mass Media', 'Are We Human? Notes on an Archaeology of Design' and 'X-Ray Architecture'. Exhibitions curated by Beatriz include 'Clip/Stamp/Fold', 'Playboy Architecture', and 'The 3rd Istanbul Design Biennial’

Dr. Jane Hall is a founding member of Turner Prize-winning collective studio ‘Assemble’, the designers of ‘Charlotte Perriand: The Modern Life’ exhibition at the Design Museum. In 2018, Jane completed a PhD at the Royal College of Art, where her research focused on Brazilian architect Lina Bo Bardi’s work. She is the author of the book ‘Breaking Ground: Architecture by Women’ (Phaidon, 2019), featuring 180 buildings by female architects.

Justin McGuirk is the Chief Curator at the Design Museum and the curator of ‘Charlotte Perriand: A Modern Life'. Justin has been the director of Strelka Press, design critic of The Guardian, and editor of Icon magazine. In 2012, he was awarded the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale of Architecture for an exhibition curated with Urban Think Tank. His book 'Radical Cities: Across Latin America in Search of a New Architecture' is published by Verso.

Martino Stierli is The Philip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture and Design at The Museum of Modern Art in New York. He is the author of 'Montage and the Metropolis' and Las Vegas in the 'Rearview Mirror'. Martino has organized various exhibitions including 'Toward a Concrete Utopia: Architecture in Yugoslavia, 1948-1980' with Vladimir Kulić (MOMA, 2019).

Discover one of the great furniture designers and architects of the twentieth century whose work was often overshadowed by her male peers, such as Le Corbusier and Jean Prouvé.