Barry Bergdoll

Prof. Barry Bergdoll is Meyer Schapiro Professor of Art History at Columbia University, and the former Chief Curator of Architecture and Design at MoMA (2007–2014). A specialist in the history of architecture since 1750 with emphasis on France and Germany, he is the author or editor of books on numerous key architects of the 19th and 20th centuries including Léon Vaudoyer; Henri Labrouste; Karl Friedrich Schinkel; Viollet-le-Duc; Frank Lloyd Wright, McKim, Mead & White; Mies van der Rohe; and Marcel Breuer, as well as the widely used textbook European Architecture 1750–1890 (2000). He has curated exhibitions at the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal, the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, and other venues. At MoMA notably he organized Mies In Berlin (2001), Bauhaus 1919–1933: Workshops for Modernity (2009-2010), Rising Currents: Projects for New York’s Waterfront (2009–2010), Latin America in Construction: Architecture 1955–1980 (2015) and Frank Lloyd Wright at 150: Unpacking the Archive (2017).