His research explores the relationship between the design fields and the emergence of global environmental culture across the 20th century. He received his PhD from Columbia University, and recently a post-doctoral fellow at the Harvard University Center for the Environment. Articles have recently been published in Grey Room and Technology and Culture, as well as in the edited volumes A Second Modernism: MIT, Architecture, and the ‘Techno-Social’ Moment (MIT Press 2013), Architecture and Energy: Questions about Performance and Style (Routledge, 2013). Prof. Barber’s book, A House in the Sun: Modern Architecture and Solar Energy in the Cold War will be published by Oxford University Press in early 2015.