The Slade Lectures in Fine Art 2011

One of the world's leading and most widely known historians of nineteenth- and twentieth-century European and American architecture will be giving the prestigious Slade Lectures in Fine Art this term, starting tonight. Barry Bergdoll, Professor of Art History at Columbia University, is a Visiting Fellow of King's College during his two-month stay in Cambridge. Professor Bergdoll has spent his entire academic career at Columbia, apart from a two-year interlude in the 1970s when he took a BA degree at Cambridge as a member of King's College. Since 2007 he has been working as The Philip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. The title of his Cambridge Slade Lectures series is Out of Site, in Plain View: The Modernity of the Architecture Exhibition since 1750. Architecture is at once the most public of arts and the hardest to bring into the spaces of the gallery. Yet, since the mid-eighteenth century, diverse techniques of architectural display have been developed.