Chrysanthe B. Broikos

Curator

Email: cbroikos@nbm.org

Related Exhibitions

Exhibitions Prairie Skyscraper: Frank Lloyd Wright’s Price Tower June 17, 2006 - September 17, 2006 Cityscapes Revealed: Highlights from the Collection December 3, 2005 - December 31, 2010 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 Architectural Toy Collection

Chrysanthe B. Broikos is an architectural historian and curator at the National Building Museum. She been instrumental in the development of several of the National Building Museum's signature exhibitions and has served in the role of curator since 1998. Most recently, she was coordinating curator for David Macaulay: The Art of Drawing Architecture and organized Cityscapes Revealed: Highlights from the Collection, the first retrospective of the Museum's permanent collection.

In 2003, she developed Stories of Home: Photographs by Bill Bamberger and authored the introductory essay to Stories of Home and the Mobile Gallery, the companion work published by the College of Architecture, University of North Carolina-Charlotte. She was the curator of Do It Yourself: Home Improvement in 20th-Century America (2002) and served as co-curator of On the Job: Design and the American Office (2000) and Stay Cool! Air Conditioning America (1999), both organized with Donald Albrecht. For On the Job, she co-edited, with Albrecht, the accompanying catalog. Her previous exhibitions at the Museum include The Corner Store (1999); City Satire: The Cartoons of Roger K. Lewis (1998); Tools as Art IV: Material Illusions, The Hechinger Collection (1998); El Nuevo Mundo: The Landscape of Central Los Angeles (1998); among others.

Broikos often serves as the coordinating curator for architectural exhibitions traveling to the Museum. In this capacity, she organized the presentation of Prairie Skyscraper: Frank Lloyd Wright's Price Tower (2006); Envisioning Architecture: Drawings from The Museum of Modern Art, New York (2004); Samuel Mockbee and the Rural Studio: Community Architecture (2004); Building Images: Seventy Years of Photography at Hedrich Blessing (2003); The Architecture of R.M. Schindler (2001); and The Architecture of Reassurance: Designing the Disney Theme Parks (2001).

In 1996, Broikos began her tenure at the National Building Museum in the education department as public programs coordinator. She created the Museum's acclaimed Spotlight on Design lecture series which features distinguished architects and designers, as well as the Smart Growth speakers series and A Day of Flying in the Great Hall with the DC Maxecuters.

Broikos earned a Master of Architectural History degree from the University of Virginia where she developed a traveling version of Thomas Jefferson's Academical Village for the University's Art Museum. Her experience also extends in the corporate realm where she developed exhibitions, publications, and videos for Atlantic Richfield Corporation, Sara Lee Corporation, Mallinckrodt Specialty Chemicals Company, and others. She earned her bachelor's degree from Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service.

Broikos also serves on the Board of Directors for the National Preservation Institute. Her interests and areas of expertise include the intersection of photography and architecture, museums and national identity, and the National Building Museum's permanent collection.