Barry Bergdoll

Barry Bergdoll is Meyer Schapiro Professor of Art History at Columbia University. A specialist in the history of modern architecture, he served from 2007 to 2014 as Chief Curator of Architecture & Design at the Museum of Modern Art (NY). He has also organized exhibitions at the Musée d’Orsay,the Caisse des Monuments Historiques, the Centre Canadien d’Architecture, and the Banamax Foundation in Mexico City, and is co-curating an exhibition on Viollet-le-Duc for the Bard Graduate Center in September 2025. He is the author of the widely used textbook European Architecture: 1750-1890 in the Oxford History of Art (2000) and monographs on Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Mies van der Rohe, Léon Vaudoyer, and Marcel Breuer. He is at work on a volume on the history of exhibiting architecture, derived from the Mellon Lectures at the National Gallery of Art in Washington in 2013.