Chrysanthe B. Broikos

Curator

Will accept inquiries about:

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

Exhibitions

	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
	Cityscapes Revealed: Highlights from the Collection December 3, 2005 - December 31, 2010
	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

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