Barry Bergdoll

Barry Bergdoll is the Philip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art and professor of modern architectural history at Columbia University. He holds a BA from Columbia, an MA from King’s College, Cambridge, and a PhD from Columbia, and his broad interests center on modern architectural history, with a particular emphasis on France and Germany since 1800.

Mr. Bergdoll has organized, curated, and consulted on many landmark exhibitions of 19th- and 20th-century architecture, including “Mies in Berlin” at MoMA (2001), with Terence Riley; “Breuer in Minnesota” at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts (2002); “Les Vaudoyer: Une Dynastie d’Architectes” at the Musée d’Orsay, Paris (1991); and “Ste. Geneviève / Pantheon; Symbol of Revolutions,” at the Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal (1989).

He is author or editor of numerous publications, including Mies in Berlin (winner of the 2002 Philip Johnson Award of the Society of Architectural Historians and AICA Best Exhibition Award, 2002); Karl Friedrich Schinkel: An Architecture for Prussia (1994), winner of the AIA Book Award in 1995; and European Architecture 1750–1890, in the Oxford History of Art series. An edited volume, Fragments: Architecture and the Unfinished, was recently published by Thames and Hudson (London, 2006). Mr. Bergdoll currently serves as President of the Society of Architectural Historians.