Barry Bergdoll
Professor
19th and 20th C. architectural history, theory and criticism
Ph.D., Columbia University, 1986

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.

Contact Information
909 Schermerhorn Hall
Telephone: (212) 854-4505
E-mail: bgb1@columbia.edu

Web Sites
20th Century Architecture and City Planning: learn.columbia.edu/arch20