Beatriz Colomina is a purveyor of sometimes unwelcome architectural analysis, extracting the hidden stories behind modern architecture, such as the classic Sexuality and Space, which explored the conjunction of cinema, psycho-analytic theory and gender.
Domesticity at War is similarly provocative, kicking off with the bold statement that 'Modern architecture is inseparable from war'. According to Colomina, every single facet of the second half of the Twentieth Century was a by-product of the military-industrial complex, from the pre-fab houses that were to be churned out by redundant bomber factories, to the glass curtain walls that placed domestic life on display, turning family meal-times into a vitrine of all-American perfection.
