Room to Think
Room to Think
Lyssia Katan
Desire by Design
58 minutes Posted Jul 28, 2026 at 4:00 am.
Why Rooms Change How We Feel
Meet Beatriz Colomina And Her Work
New York And Seeing Architecture As Culture
Buildings As Media In A Screen World
How Cinema Changed The Window
Home As A Psychological State
The Microbiome Inside Every Building
Porous Buildings And Rethinking Cleanliness
Desire, Taboo, And Domestic Space
Playboy And The Bachelor Pad As Design Engine
War, Epidemics, And Why Cities Modernize
Literature, Atmosphere, And Spatial Memory
What New Architects Ask First
Privacy Collapse And The Staged Home
What Comes Next: Bacteria And Loneliness
Takeaways And Closing Thanks
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In this episode, Lyssia sits down with Professor Beatriz Colomina, architectural historian, theorist, author, and professor at Princeton University, to explore the hidden forces shaping the spaces we live in and what those spaces reveal about us. Known for her groundbreaking work connecting architecture with media, medicine, sexuality, technology, and modern life, Beatriz has spent her career challenging the idea that architecture is simply about buildings. Instead, she argues that our spaces...