Beatriz Colomina, professor of architecture at Princeton University, gave an interview to Architect Magazine on the current exhibition of her thesis, “Playboy Architecture 1953-1979”, at the Elmhurst Museum in Chicago. Her provocative interest on the correlation between Playboy and architecture, began nearly thirty years ago with her exploration on the role of gender in architecture by Adolf Loos and Le Corbusier. From there, she began to see numerous parallels between Playboy and the design world. 

Since the beginning of production of Playboy, the magazine has featured works of Frank Lloyd Wright, Bucky Fuller, and Mies van der Rohe, to name a few. “Going through them (Playboy magazines), we realized what no one seems to have realized before, that they were full of architecture and design from the very beginning,” Colomina told Architect Magazine. Her research speculates how Playboy was able to present architecture in such a way that it actually, in turn, influenced modern design.

Check out the interview by Architect Magazine, here.

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