Daniel A. Barber is an Assistant Professor of Architecture at Penn Design, where he is also the Associate Chair of the Department of Architecture. He is an architectural historian with a research interest in the relationship between the design fields and the emergence of global environmental culture across the 20th century. He is a leading voice in the field’s increasing interest in environmental concerns on both historical and theoretical terms. Daniel received a PhD in Architecture History and Theory from Columbia University, and a Master of Environmental Design from Yale University. He was recently a post-doctoral research fellow at the Harvard University Center for the Environment and Graduate School of Design, and has held visiting positions at Oberlin College, Barnard College, and the University of Auckland, New Zealand. In February 2015 he was the Terra Foundation for American Art Visiting Professor at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London. Daniel approaches research and teaching from an interdisciplinary perspective, integrating narratives and methods from histories of architecture, art, landscape architecture, technology, science, politics, economics, and environmentalism. He has presented papers and chaired panels in numerous disciplinary and interdisciplinary contexts, and has lectured internationally. Daniel is involved in a number of collaborative and interdisciplinary initiatives: he is leading a research group on architecture and climate for the Mellon Foundation funded Global Architectural History Teaching Collaborative, he is part of the Architecture and Environment Interest Group of the European Architectural History Network, and an 'aggregator' with the Aggregate Architectural History Collective. He is also a fellow at the Penn Institute for Urban Research and at the UPenn/Mellon Foundation project on Humanities, Urbanism, and Design. His current research looks at the role of architectural technologies in the infrastructural and territorial transformations of the immediate post-World War II period in the United States. His first book, A House in the Sun: Modern Architecture and Solar Energy in the Cold War, will be published by Oxford University Press in the Spring of 2015. It documents the brief but dynamic interest in solar houses in the 1940s and 50s, connecting developments in architecture to policy, economic, and cultural concerns. He is currently working on a second book, Climatic Effects: Architecture, Technology, and the Globalization of the International Style, which explores how interest in climatic design methods was central to the global dissemination of modern architecture in the inter-war and post-war period. Daniel's essays have appeared in a number of periodicals, including Grey Room, Technology and Culture, The Journal of Architecture, Design Philosophy Papers, thresholds, Delft Architectural Studies on Housing (DASH), Pidgin, The Nordic Journal of Architecture, and forthcoming from Environmental History. An essay on the image economy of energy scarcity was recently published at places.designobserver.com. Barber has chapters in the edited volumes Architecture, Disciplinarity and the Arts (A&S Books, 2009), Critical Architecture (Taylor and Francis, 2007) and The Ethics of Dust (Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2009), Architecture and Energy: Performance and Style (Routledge, 2013), A Second Modernism: MIT, Architecture, and the ‘Techno-Social' Moment (MIT Press, 2013), and forthcoming in Fueling Culture: Energy, History, Politics (University of Minnesota Press, 2014). He has received research and publication grants from the American Society of Environmental Historians, the Society of Architectural Historians, the UPenn University Research Foundation, and the US Department of Energy. Many of these articles are available as PDFs below. At Penn Daniel teaches in the required lecture sequence in the History and Theory of Architecture, including a course on Ecological and Experimental Architecture in the post-World War II period and a Contemporary Discourse Colloquium. He also teaches seminars for PhD, MArch, and Undergraduate students, including a seminar on Architecture in the Anthropocene, the development of which was funded by the UPenn program on Integrating Sustainability Across the Curriculum. In Spring 2015 he will be co-teaching a course on the history of Rio de Janiero, including a Mellon Foundation funded trip to Rio.