Daniel A. Barber is Chair of Architecture History and Decarbonisation at the Technical University of Eindhoven. His research on climate, comfort, and conditioning has established a novel and prominent agenda for architects and scholars worldwide.  

He is the author of Modern Architecture and Climate: Design before Air Conditioning (Princeton UP, 2020) and A House in the Sun: Modern Architecture and Solar Energy in the Cold War (Oxford UP, 2016). Daniel’s essay “After Comfort” (Log, 2019) has been translated into five languages. He co-edits the series “After Comfort: A User’s Guide” and “Accumulation: Art, Architecture and the Media of Climate Change,” both on the e-flux architecture online platform; he is also co-editor of the Cohabitations book series for University of Minnesota Press. Daniel directed the film “Climate Portraits” for the 2023 International Architecture Biennial Rotterdam and led the theory and design team for the installation “Terms and Conditions” at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale.  

He received a PhD from Columbia University and has taught at Yale, Princeton, and Harvard; he was recently Head of School Architecture at the University of Technology Sydney. Daniel’s research is supported by the Centre for Apocalyptic and Post-Apocalyptic Studies, the British Academy, and a 2023 Guggenheim Fellowship.