Beatriz Colomina, Professor at Princeton
University and Mark Wigley, Professor and
Dean Emeritus of Columbia University’s
Graduate School of Architecture have been
appointed curators of the 3rd İstanbul Design
Biennial, to be held from 22 October 2015 to 4
December 2016.
Internationally renowned architectural historian and
theorist Beatriz Colomina is Professor of Architecture
and Founding Director of the Program in Media and
Modernity at Princeton University. Her books include
Manifesto Architecture: The Ghost of Mies (Sternberg
Press, 2014), Clip/Stamp/Fold: The Radical Architecture
of Little Magazines 196X-197X (2010), Domesticity at
War (2007), Privacy and Publicity: Modern Architecture
as Mass Media (1994) and Sexuality and Space (1992).
She is curator with a team of Princeton Ph.D. students
of the exhibitions Clip/Stamp/Fold: The Radical Architecture
of Little Magazines 196X-197X (which opened
at Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York, 2006
and has travelled to 11 venues worldwide), Playboy Architecture,
1953-79 (which opened at NAi Maastricht,
2012 and was at the DAM (Deutsche Architektur Museum)
in Frankfurt in 2014, and Radical Pedagogies: Architectural
Education in a Time of Disciplinary Instability
(Lisbon Triennale, 2013 and Venice Biennale 2014).
Architecture historian, theorist, and critic from New
Zealand based in New York, Mark Wigley is Professor
and Dean Emeritus of Columbia University’s Graduate
School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation.
He is an architectural theorist, critic, and historian
from New Zealand who is based in New York.
The author of The Architecture of Deconstruction:
Derrida’s Haunt (1993), White Walls, Designer Dresses:
The Fashioning of Modern Architecture (1995),
and Constant’s New Babylon: The Hyper-Architecture
of Desire (1998), he coedited, with Catherine de Zegher,
The Activist Drawing: Retracing Situationist Architectures
from Constant’s New Babylon to Beyond,
(2001) and was one of the founders of Volume magazine.
He has curated exhibitions at the MoMA in New
York, the Witte de With in Rotterdam, The Drawing
Center in New York, and the CCA in Montreal. His forthcoming
book is Buckminster Fuller Inc.: Architecture in
the Age of Radio.
The conceptual framework of the 3rd İstanbul Design
Biennial, organised by the İstanbul Foundation for Culture
and Ar t s from 22 October 2015 to 4 December
2016, will be announced at a press conference
in December 2015 by the curators Beatriz Colomina
and Mark Wigley.
The 3rd İstanbul Design Biennial Advisory Board
Members are managing direc tor of Finnish design
company Ar tek Mar ianne Goebl; architec t
and co-founder of architec ture s tudio Superpool
Selva Gürdoğan; designer, his tor ian, archi –
tec ture cr it ic and curator Gökhan Karakuş; John
H. Bryan Chair and Curator of Architec ture and
Design at the Ar t Ins t itute of Chicago and curator
of the 2nd İs tanbul Design Biennial Zoë
Ryan; and Founding Di rector Vitra Design Museum,
President C.I.R.E.C.A. Domaine de Boisbuchet
Alexander von Vegesack.
