Gregory K. Dreicer

Full-time fall 1997 and
spring 1998.

Photo by Doug Cogger.

Gregory Dreicer is a historian of technology, museum curator, and exhibition developer. His area of interest is nineteenth and twentieth century building. Mr. Dreicer recently completed a four year stint as curator at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C., where he created exhibitions including Barn Again!, an exploration of barns and agriculture that is touring rural venues in eight states, and Between Fences, a cultural history of fences and land use. Mr. Dreicer has written articles and book reviews for journals including Culture Technique, History and Technology, and Technology and Culture.

Previously, Mr. Dreicer worked in New York City as an architectural conservator specializing in the restoration and repair of high-rise building facades. He has executed historical research projects in the United States and Europe. An upcoming exhibition and publication, tentatively entitled Bridging Nations, examine invention and the nineteenth century development of civil engineering, while probing their relationship to ideas of national character.

As a Loeb Fellow, Mr. Dreicer developed strategies and techniques for the production of exhibitions, as well as related publications, films, and educational activities, that provide an interpretation of building in its broadest sense. His goal is to draw the public, professionals, and the mass media into the debates and decisions that shape the built and natural environments. The Loeb Fellowship enabled Mr. Dreicer to plan a project that explores building as an activity, rather than regarding buildings as objects. Mr. Dreicer was also the author of the "Architecture of Segregation" Project.