World Monuments Fund/Knoll Modernism Prize

Barry Bergdoll is the Meyer Schapiro Professor of Art History at Columbia University. Professor Bergdoll’s broad interests center on modern architectural history. Trained in art history rather than architecture, he has an approach most closely allied with cultural history and the history and sociology of professions. He has studied questions of the politics of cultural representation in architecture, the larger ideological content of nineteenth-century architectural theory, and the changing role of both architecture as a profession and architecture as a cultural product in nineteenth-century European society. In exhibitions at the Canadian Centre for Architecture and at the Museum of Modern Art, where he served as Philip Johnson Chief Curator from 2007 to 2013, Bergdoll has offered a series of exhibitions intended to offer more inclusive visions of subjects from Mies van der Rohe (and his relationship to garden reform and landscape), the Bauhaus, Henri Labrouste, Le Corbusier, Latin American post-war architecture, and most recently Frank Lloyd Wright. 

In 2019, Courtney J. Martin became the sixth director of the Yale Center for British Art. Previously, she was the deputy director and chief curator at the Dia Art Foundation; an assistant professor in the History of Art and Architecture department at Brown University; an assistant professor in the History of Art department at Vander­bilt University; a chancellor’s postdoctoral fellow in the History of Art at the University of California, Berkeley; a fellow at the Getty Research Institute; and a Henry Moore Institute research fellow. She also worked in the media, arts, and culture unit of the Ford Foundation in New York. In 2015, she received an Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant. She received a bachelor of arts from Oberlin College and a doctorate from Yale University for her research on twentieth-century British art and is the author of essays on Rasheed Araeen, Kader Attia, Rina Banerjee, Frank Bowling, Lara Favaretto, Sam Gilliam, Leslie Hewitt, Asger Jorn, Wangechi Mutu, Ed Ruscha, and Yinka Shonibare CBE (RA). She was a participant in the Center for Curatorial Leadership’s fellowship in 2019.

Dietrich Neumann is a professor for the history of Modern Architecture and Urban Studies. He was trained as an architect in Munich, Germany and at the Architectural Association in London and received his PhD from Munich University. His publications have dealt with the history of skyscrapers, movie set design, architectural illumination, building materials and in particular with the work of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. He has won fellowships at the Canadian Center for Architecture in Montréal, the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, at the American Academies in Berlin and Rome and won the Founder’s (1996) and Philip Johnson Awards (2003) from the Society of Architectural Historians, where he served as president 2008-2010 and was named a fellow in 2018. He was the first Vincent Scully Visiting Professor at the Yale School of Architecture and is a member of the Committee on Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art. He currently serves as president of Docomomo NE.

Karen Stein is an architectural advisor and executive director of the George Nelson Foundation. Previously, she was editorial director of Phaidon Press and, prior to that, senior managing editor of Architectural Record. She has also been a member of the faculty of the Design Criticism program at the School of Visual Arts in New York.

She is the author of Aldo Rossi Architecture 1981–1991 (Princeton Architectural Press) and a contributor to The Writings of Donald Judd (Chinati Foundation) and 30 Years of Emerging Voices: Idea, Form, Resonance (Princeton Architectural Press). Her writing has also been featured in a variety of publications, including Architectural Record, New York Magazine, a+u, The Wall Street Journal Magazine, and The World of Interiors. A graduate of Princeton University with a Bachelor of Arts in architecture, she was awarded a Loeb Fellowship in Environmental Studies by Harvard University. Currently she is a member of the board of directors of The Architectural League of New York and The Chinati Foundation in Marfa, Texas and served on the jury of The Pritzker Architecture Prize from 2003 through 2012.

Mabel O. Wilson is the Nancy and George Rupp Professor at Columbia University, where she teaches in Architecture, Planning and Preservation, African American and African Diasporic Studies, and directs the Institute for Research in African American Studies. She co-leads the Global Africa Lab at GSAPP and founded the transdisciplinary Studio &, which explores how anti-Black racism and Black cultural production shape the built environment. Her work spans design, scholarship, and curation, and has been featured in major exhibitions including the Venice Biennale and the Smithsonian. Wilson has held faculty positions at institutions like UC Berkeley and Princeton, and was a finalist for significant projects such as the African Burial Ground Memorial and the Memorial to Enslaved Laborers at UVA. A published author, she has written Negro Building and Begin with the Past, and is working on a third book and a co-edited volume on race and modern architecture. Her accolades include a United States Artists Fellowship, an Arts and Letters Award, and the Women in Architecture Educator/Mentor honor.

Susan Macdonald RIBA, PIA, joined the Getty Conservation Institute in 2008 as head of Field Projects. Susan has a bachelor of science (architecture) and a bachelor of architecture from the University of Sydney, and a master's degree in conservation studies (University of York/ICCROM), and is a certified practicing planner. Susan has worked in the private and public sectors in London, including English Heritage, and immediately prior to the GCI, at the New South Wales Heritage Office in Australia as its Director. Susan has been involved in a wide range of conservation issues from urban planning, development, economics, world heritage, and policy and technical matters and has lectured, authored, and edited various books and articles on these topics. Susan has served on a number of international and national advisory committees and editorial boards, and is a member of DOCOMOMO International Specialist Technical Committee, the ICOMOS International Scientific Committee on 20th Century Heritage (ISC20C) and APTi's Modern Committee.

Theodore Prudon, PhD, FAIA, a leading expert on the preservation of modern architecture, is a partner of Prudon & Partners, based in New York City. Born in The Netherlands, Dr. Prudon was educated at the University of Delft and Columbia University where he studied under James Marston Fitch and received his doctorate. Over the course of his forty year career, Dr. Prudon has worked on hundreds of preservation projects including the terra cotta restoration of the 54-story Woolworth Building, the exterior restoration of the Chrysler Building, and the restoration of a 1941 Lescaze townhouse in New York City. Dr. Prudon has taught at Pratt Institute since 1986. He is the President of Docomomo US and a board member of Docomomo International. Docomomo is dedicated to the study of significant works of Modern Movement architecture, landscape design, and urban planning around the world.