Barry Bergdoll
Professor, Chair
Philip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture and Design
at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City
"The Eyes Need a Rest": Pei, Breuer, Barnes and
the new American Museum Design of the 1960s
Wednesday, November 15th, 6:00 PM
Allen K. and Leonarda F. Laing Lecture
Biography
Professor Bergdoll's broad interests center on modern architectural history, with a particular emphasis on France and Germany between 1750 and 1900. Trained in art history rather than architecture, he has an approach most closely allied with cultural history and the history and sociology of professions. He has studied questions of the politics of cultural representation in architecture, the larger ideological content of nineteenth-century architectural theory, and the changing role of both architecture as a profession and architecture as a cultural product in nineteenth-century European society.
Bergdoll's interests also include the intersections of architecture and new technologies—and eventually cultures—of representations in the modern period, especially photography and film. He has worked on several film productions about architecture, in addition to curating a number of architectural exhibitions concerned with the history and problematics of exhibiting architecture, and the history of museological practices in relationship to architecture.
From : http://www.columbia.edu/cu/arthistory/html/dept_faculty_bergdoll.html
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