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Chrysanthe B. Broikos

Curator

Phone: 202.272.2448, ext. 3411
Email: cbroikos@nbm.org

Will accept inquiries about:

The National Building Museum's permanent collections, including bricks, photographs, and architectural toys
Specific topics related to past exhibitions

 

Exhibitions




Cityscapes Revealed: Highlights from the Collection
January 7, 2013




Palacios para el pueblo: Guastavino y los fabulosos espacios públicos de América




Designing for Disaster
April 1, 2014




Palaces for the People: Guastavino and America’s Great Public Spaces
March 16, 2013 - January 20, 2014




Kevin Roche: Architecture as Environment
June 16, 2012 - December 2, 2012




Walls Speak: The Narrative Art of Hildreth Meière
March 19, 2011 - January 2, 2012




Palladio and His Legacy: A Transatlantic Journey
September 2, 2010 - January 30, 2011




A Century of Design: The U.S. Commission of Fine Arts, 1910-2010
May 15, 2010 - July 18, 2010




Drawing Toward Home: Designs for Domestic Architecture from Historic New England
February 20, 2010 - August 15, 2010




Special Presentation: The World Trade Center Model
November 18, 2008 - January 14, 2009




David Macaulay: The Art of Drawing Architecture
June 23, 2007 - May 4, 2008




Prairie Skyscraper: Frank Lloyd Wright’s Price Tower
June 17, 2006 - September 17, 2006




Samuel Mockbee and the Rural Studio: Community Architecture
May 22, 2004 - September 6, 2004




Envisioning Architecture: Drawings from the Museum of Modern Art, New York
March 20, 2004 - June 20, 2004




Stories of Home: Photographs by Bill Bamberger
December 3, 2003 - March 7, 2004




Building Images: Seventy Years of Photography at Hedrich Blessing
April 30, 2003 - July 27, 2003




Do-It-Yourself: Home Improvement in 20th-Century America
October 19, 2002 - August 17, 2003


Additional Exhibitions

The Architecture of R.M. Schindler
The Architecture of Reassurance: Designing the Disney Theme Parks
On the Job: Design and the American Office
The Corner Store
Stay Cool! Air Conditioning America
El Nuevo Mundo: The Landscape of Latino Los Angeles
City Satire: The Illustrations of Roger K. Lewis
Tools as Art IV: Material Illusions, The Hechinger Collection

Articles

The National Building Museum meets the National Park Service


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Bricklayers at the Big Build

On September 21, 2013, the National Building Museum hosts its annual free festival, the Big Build: A Hands-On Family Festival of Tools, Trucks and Construction. To learn more about the building professionals who present their work at the festival, we talked to Robert Arnold from the International Masonry Institute, the team behind the festival’s extremely popular brick laying display. Bring your family to the Big Build to meet Robert and other building professionals in person.
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The Charles Goodman Project

In an effort to document the work and legacy of architect Charles M. Goodman, FAIA (1906-1992), the Washington area’s preeminent mid-century modernist, the National Building Museum conducted a series of interviews with architects and historians who either worked with him or studied his work.
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Olso Architecture Triennale - Part 5

Astrup Fearley Museum
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Harnessing Friction on the High Line

The National Building Museum awards the fifteenth Vincent Scully Prize to Friends of the High Line co-founders, Joshua David and Robert Hammond, for their work in creating one of the most successful urban revitalization projects to date.
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Los Angeles Constructs the Future

October 3, 2013

Christopher Alexander, assistant curator of architecture and design at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles and co-curator of Overdrive, talked with the National Building Museum about the exhibition Overdrive: L.A. Constructs the Future, 1940-1990.
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Thom Mayne: Inquiry is Everything

September 25, 2013

National Building Museum and Metropolis Magazine Contributor Andrew Caruso recently sat down with AIA Gold Medalist and "bad boy" of architecture Thom Mayne.
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Oslo Architecture Triennale - Part 4

September 24, 2013

Amazing Exhibition
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Oslo Architecture Triennale - Part 3

September 21, 2013

Overwhelming Response
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Olso Architecture Triennale - Part 2

September 20, 2013

Food and Architecture—linked in so many ways
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Oslo Architecture Triennale - Part 1

September 19, 2013

National Building Museum executive director Chase W. Rynd, Hon. ASLA, visits the Oslo Architecture Triennale.
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Rearranged, Floral Arrangements Get Repurposed

June 28, 2013

The floral arrangements at this year's Honor Award qala blossomed a second time at the USO Wounded Warrior and Family Center at Ft. Belvoir.
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More Than Just a Pretty Space

June 4, 2013

Sprout Space, designed by architecture firm Perkins+Will, is not only part of the National Building Museum's exhibition Green Schools, but also a working classroom for the Museum's school programs.
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Find Building, Get Lunch

April 17, 2013

John Ochsendorf, the MacArthur Fellow who organized our exhibition on Rafael Guastavino, is offering lunch to anyone who identifies an undocumented Gaustavino building.
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Women of Architecture: Andrea Leers, FAIA and Jane Weinzapfel, FAIA

April 1, 2013

Andrea Leers, FAIA and Jane Weinzapfel, FAIA discuss their firm Leers Weinzapfel with the National Building Museum as part of the Women of Architecture lecture series.
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What exactly does a landscape architect do?

April 1, 2013

During National Landscape Architecture Month, celebrated during the month of April, there are plenty of opportunities to learn more about the profession and what exactly landscape architects do. It goes far beyond planting trees, shrubs, and flowers.
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Cleaning Up the Cleaning Industry

March 1, 2013

Jeff Hawkins, director of custodial services for the Provo City School District in Provo, Utah, spoke with National Building Museum co-curator Sarah Leavitt about his award-winning work at Dixon Middle School for which he and his team recently received the Best Cleaning Industry Environmental Program Award.
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Cultural Driver: Mary Margaret Jones

February 5, 2013

The National Building Museum interviews Mary Margaret Jones, FASLA, FAAR, president and senior principal of Hargreaves Associates, about the role of landscape architects and planners in cultural infrastructure.
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Adopt a School

February 5, 2013

The National Building Museum's national curricula coordinator discusses the Museum's "Adopt a School" education programming.
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Yang Yongliang: Piecing Together the City

January 14, 2013

National Building Museum Online contributor Andrew Caruso speaks with Chinese born graphic designer-turned digital artist Yang Yongliang.
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Education

M.A., Architectural History, University of Virginia
B.S., Foreign Service, Georgetown University

Research Interests

Architecture and Photography
Modern European Architecture
American Architecture

Selected Publications

Author of introductory essay "Photography. Architecture. Community"
Stories of Home and the Mobile Gallery, edited by Molly Renda and Tammi Brooks, University of North Carolina–Charlotte Press, 2003
Co-editor with Donald Albrecht, On the Job: Design and the American Office, Princeton Architectural Press, 2000

Professional Background

Special Projects Curator, University of Virginia Art Museum, Charlottesville, Virginia, June 1995–May 1996
Staff Historian / Senior Account Executive, The History Factory, Washington, D.C., January 1989 – October 1993