Architectural historian Barry Bergdoll is the Meyer Schapiro Professor of Art History and Archeology at Columbia University, where he studied as an undergraduate, received his PhD., and has taught since 1986, specializing in modern architecture and culture in the broadest sense. The author of numerous books, articles, and distinguished lecture series, Bergdoll spent six years, through 2013, as the Chief Curator of Architecture and Design at MoMA, during which time he organized and curated a series of influential exhibitions, ranging from the contemporary inquiries “Rising Currents: Projects for New York’s Waterfront” and “Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling,” to scholarly surveys of the works of Henri Labrouste and Le Corbusier, as well as the 2015 “Latin America in Construction: 1955-1980.”
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