[3] Here, her interests in History, Theory & Urbanism were nurtured under the guidance of a group of teachers that included Josep Quetglas and Ignasi de Solà-Morales.

[3] Even as a student, she began working for the Department of History, Theory and Urbanism by translating two of Tafuri's writings, with an Italian friend.

[3] The people she met at this interdisciplinary institute, like Carl Schorske, Susan Sontag and Wolfgang Schivelbusch had a major influence in her later work.

[3] After a short break, during which she served the fellowship at the New York Institute for the Humanities, her teaching career continued when she moved to Columbia University in 1982.

[5] Colomina has written about architecture and the modern institutions of representation, particularly the printed media, photography, advertising, film and TV.

[citation needed] Some of her early contributions to other publications include The Sex of Architecture (Abrams, 1996), Dan Graham (2001), Philip Johnson: The Constancy of Change (2009), Domesticity at War (2007), Cold War Hothouses (2004), Raumplan Versus Plan Libre: Adolf Loos and Le Corbusier (1988).

[10] The research focuses on architectural educational programs and schools that emerged post war and were strongly tied to the social changes of that time.