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
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
Urban Portraiture
October 15, 2009
Camilo José Vergara, one of the nation’s foremost urban documentarians, has been photographing the landscape of urban poverty for nearly 40 years. In this article, Chrysanthe B. Broikos, curator of the National Building Museum’s exhibition Storefront Churches: Photographs by Camilo José Vergara on display through November 29, examines the elements of portraiture in Vergara’s photographs of Christian houses of worship in the inner city.
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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

