How Buildings Dream•Daniel Barber
FAUP•Sala Plana•17th December 2025•17h00
Image | ©️ Daniel Barber, Bilge Kobas, et. al. Terms and Conditions at the 19th Venice Architecture Biennale, 2025.
The conference ‘How Buildings Dream’, delivered by Daniel Barber, Architect and Professor at TU Eindhoven, will take place on 17th of December 2025, at 17h00, in Sala Plana.
This event, organized by professors Luciana Rocha and Eliseu Gonçalves, is part of the research project WellBEH [2023.11189.PEX] and of the EcHo/Atlas da Casa research line, in collaboration with the course unit ‘Architecture, Energy and Climate. Fundamentals for the design of the Well-tempered House’.
About Daniel Barber:
Daniel A. Barber is Full Professor at TU Eindhoven. He holds a PhD in Architecture (History and Theory) from Columbia University (2010) and a Master’s degree from Yale University (2005).
He has held fellowships at Harvard University, Princeton University, and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation; in 2022, he was the inaugural Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Apocalyptic and Post-Apocalyptic Studies at Universität Heidelberg.
In 2023, he received a Guggenheim Fellowship for the project ‘Thermal Practices’.
He recently co-produced the film ‘Climate Portraits’, included in the International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam.
In 2025, he received the Transition Fellowship from the Fondation Martell.
He is the author of the books ‘Modern Architecture and Climate: Design before Air Conditioning’ (Princeton, 2020), ‘A House in the Sun: Modern Architecture and Solar Energy in the Cold War’ (Oxford, 2016); his article ‘After Comfort’ (Log 47, 2019) has been translated into four languages.
He is co-editor of ‘After Comfort: A User’s Guide’ on the e-flux architecture platform.
He was recently Head of the School of Architecture at the University of Technology Sydney, and has also taught at the University of Pennsylvania School of Design, at Oberlin College, at Auckland University, and has lectured at design schools and museums worldwide.
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