Baltimore Architecture Foundation lecture features MOMA curator on Oct. 23
Sep 5th, 2008 by newsletter
The public is invited hear “At the Museum: Exhibition Houses from Breuer to Digital Fabrication” by Barry Bergdoll, architecture curator at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA; New York, NY), at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, October 23, at the Baltimore Museum of Art. The lecture is sponsored by the Baltimore Architecture Foundation (BAF) and provides 1 AIA/CES unit for architects.
The lecture is free, but space is limited and will be available first-come, first-served the night of the event.
This event is the BAF’s 2008 Lewis Memorial Lecture and is part of the BAF’s celebration of Architecture Week, which is sponsored by the American Institute of Architects/Baltimore. It is also part of Baltimore City’s “Free Fall” event.
Bergdoll joined MoMA in January 2007 as the Philip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture and Design. He was formerly chair of the Department of Art History at Columbia University, where he taught 19th- and 20th-century architectural history since 1985. He has organized, curated and consulted on many exhibitions, 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).
Among the books that Bergdoll has written or contributed to are: Mies in Berlin (2001); Karl Friedrich Schinkel: An Architecture for Prussia (1994); and European Architecture 1750–1890 (2000), in the Oxford History of Art series. Bergdoll also edited Fragments: Architecture and the Unfinished, published by Thames and Hudson (London, 2006).
Bergdoll has also written on architecture for publications such as Architecture, the Architectural Record, Progressive Architecture, the Yale Architecture Journal, Casabella, Harvard Design magazine, the New York Times, Artforum, House and Garden, Beaux-Arts magazine (Paris), the Burlington Magazine (London), and the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians.
The BAF is the center for Baltimoreans who care about architecture. For information about membership and other upcoming events, call 410-539-7772 or go to www.baltimorearchitecture.org.
