Donald Albrecht

Donald Albrecht is an independent curator and Curator of Architecture and Design at the Museum of the City of New York, who has organized several major exhibitions for such organizations as the Library of Congress, the Getty Center, and the Smithsonian Institution. Current projects include the first retrospective of the work of architect Eero Saarinen, primarily organized by the Finnish Cultural Institute in New York from the collections of Yale University, an international survey of contemporary sustainable housing for the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C., and a major traveling retrospective on the work of architect Moshe Safdie. As curator at the Museum of the City of New York, Mr. Albrecht organized such shows as The High Style of Dorothy Draper, Glass and Glamour: Steuben’s Modern Moment, and The Mythic City: Photographs of New York by Samuel H. Gottscho. At the Cooper-Hewitt Museum in New York, he co-curated that institution’s first two National Design Triennials of recent American architecture and design. He was also exhibition director and catalog editor of the international traveling exhibition The Work of Charles and Ray Eames, organized by the Library of Congress and the Vitra Design Museum. He is a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome.