Collaborations: The Private Life of Modern Architecture Author(s): Beatriz Colomina Source: Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Vol. 58, No. 3, Architectural History 1999/2000 (Sep., 1999), pp. 462-471 Published by: University of California Press on behalf of the Society of Architectural Historians Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/991540 Accessed: 25-09-2016 19:05 UTC JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact
[email protected]. Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at http://about.jstor.org/terms Society of Architectural Historians, University of California Press are collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians This content downloaded from 204.168.144.216 on Sun, 25 Sep 2016 19:05:51 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms Collaborations The Private Life of Modern Architecture BEATRIZ COLOMINA Princeton University bout a year ago, I gave a lecture form in the Madrid, space-and how the there city is nothing in Mies's work, where I was born. The lecture was on the work of prior to his collaboration with Reich, that would suggest Charles and Ray Eames and, to my surprise, most such a radical approach to defining space by suspended sen- of the discussion at the dinner afterward centered around suous surfaces, which would become his trademark, as the role of Ray, her background as a painter, her studies with exemplified in his Barcelona Pavilion of 1929.