Prof. Dr. Daniel Barber

Daniel A. Barber is an associate professor at the University of Pennsylvania School of Design. His research explores the relationship between architecture and the emergence of global environmental culture across the twentieth century. Daniel wrote two books, A House in the Sun: Modern Architecture and Solar Energy in the Cold War (2016) and Climatic Effects: Architecture, Media, and the Planetary Interior (2019). Daniel has published extensively, in Grey Room, Technology and Culture, and forthcoming in Public Culture; in The Avery Review, Praxis, and Agenda; and in the Catalogue of the US Pavilion of the 2014 Venice Biennale. He also lectures internationally.

RCC Research Project: Emergency Exit: Architecture and the end of Fossil Fuels

Daniel A. Barber was a visiting scholar at the RCC in 2016 and in 2017.

Selected publications:

• A House in the Sun: Modern Architecture and Solar Energy in the Cold War. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016.
  
• “The Form and Climate Research Group: Architecture and the Scales of History.” In Climates: Architecture and the Planetary Imaginary. New York: Lars Muller and Columbia University GSAPP, 2016; published online at Avery Review, 8 April 2016.
• “Tomorrow’s House: Solar Housing in 1940s America.” Technology and Culture 55, no. 1 (February 2014): 1–39.
• “The World Solar Energy Project, ca. 1954.” Grey Room 51 (Spring 2013): 64–93.
• “Experimental Dwellings: Modern Architecture and Environmental Research at the MIT Solar Energy Fund, 1938–1963.” In A Second Modernism: MIT, Architecture, and the ‘Techno-Social’ Moment, edited by Arindam Dutta, 252–285. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2013.
• “Visualizing Renewable Resources.” In Architecture and Energy: Performance and Style, edited by William Braham and Dan Willis, 256–279. New York: Routledge, 2013; published online as “Hubbert’s Peak, Eneropa, and Visualization of Renewable Energy” at places.designobserver.com, 20 May 2013.