X-Ray Architecture

Princeton Professor Beatriz Colomina challenges normal understandings of modern architecture in X-Ray Architecture (Lars Müller Publishers). Looking at technologies on formation, representation, and reception, she argues that 20th-century architecture was shaped by the period’s medical obsession—the X-ray.

Paw in print

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An inside look up the inside of a building, with four floors and a dinosaur skeleton visible.
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April 2026

Inside the new ES and SEAS complex; kudos for austerity; jazz at Princeton.