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"Who will be tomorrow&amp;#039;s Frank Gehry? If anyone knows, it&amp;#039;s Barry Bergdoll, chief curator of architecture and design at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Bergdoll, a scholar of European architectural history, is a champion for young, boundary-pushing talent around the globe. His exhibitions often stress the political. &amp;quot;I don&amp;#039;t want to just show off the next handsome building,&amp;quot; he says. &amp;quot;Architecture can be socially transformative. But I&amp;#039;m not interested in exhibiting something just because its intentions are good. Quality and aesthetics are still the final judgment.&amp;quot;  Building the Future \u2022 It&amp;#039;s a tough time for architects and designers. We&amp;#039;re in the hangover of the housing boom. But I have an optimistic view. The economy is pushing people. Instead of designing pretty objects, we&amp;#039;re discussing design. There&amp;#039;s a new social commitment. Increasingly, architects are thinking about the relationship of their profession to the big problems of the world. \u2022 In a show called &amp;quot;Rising Currents,&amp;quot; MoMA invited young architects to work on the problem of climate change. With rising sea levels, large parts of New York City could be under water within 80 years. Kate Orff, a landscape architect, proposed turning the polluted Gowanus Canal into an oyster hatchery. The oysters would then spread throughout New York Harbor to create a new harbor floor that would make the city more resilient to storm surges.  Talent Spotting \u2022 Starchitects have become like bankers: It&amp;#039;s popular to hate them. While it&amp;#039;s exciting to see the next new building by Rem Koolhaas or Zaha Hadid, the star system also makes it hard for young talent, especially in developing economies.  \u2022 The MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program lets me keep an eye on emerging practices. On my radar: Aranda/Lasch, a firm using a computational process to simulate growth patterns in nature. And Interboro Partners is using architecture to engage local communities. I&amp;#039;m interested in seeing what the great Copenhagen architect Bjarke Ingels will do now that he has moved part of his office to New York.  \u2022 Latin America is very hot in architecture\u2014 especially Chile and Colombia. I am working on a major exhibition of mid-20th-century Latin American architecture.  Rethinking Suburbia \u2022 MoMA has just opened &amp;quot;Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream.&amp;quot; The ideal of the house in the suburbs with driveway and lawn still has a hold on the imagination, but it&amp;#039;s been shaken if not shattered by the foreclosure crisis. We&amp;#039;re saying, If the American dream is broken, turn it into opportunity\u2014rethink what the urban fringe can look like, with new housing, transportation, and financial models for development.  Past and Present \u2022 We should look at what worked before cities were rewritten by cars and highways. We can learn how to build more ecologically. I&amp;#039;m curating an exhibit on Henri Labrouste, a 19th-\u00ADcentury French architect who was one of the first to use artificial lighting in buildings. \u2022 There is an explosion of new materials. Glass, for instance, has been completely transformed in the last couple of years. It&amp;#039;s more energy efficient and can now bear much more weight. MAS, a new museum in Antwerp, was built of corrugated glass\u2014the effect is incredible stone masses that appear to be holding on to nothing.  House of Tomorrow \u2022 Everyone loves to project a Jetsons version of the house of the future. But yesterday&amp;#039;s tomorrows are so far off the mark. I do think houses will be made of increasingly sophisticated materials. Computers will make it possible to embed information in the walls of a house so it can perform tasks or adapt to the seasons. \u2022 My best Jetsons guess is that the proliferation of household appliances will begin to shrink, just as computers have been reduced to tiny machines plugged into docks. This will dramatically change the feel of the domestic interior.  Click here to see the gallery for &amp;quot;Barry Bergdoll on Architecture.&amp;quot; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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