Deborah Moore Sorensen
Assistant Curator
Phone: 202.272.2448, ext. 3410
Email: dsorensen@nbm.org
Will accept inquiries about:
Architecture and film
World's Fairs
Exhibitions
Green Schools
March 3, 2013 - January 5, 2014
Detroit Disassembled
September 30, 2012 - March 17, 2013
Detroit Is No Dry Bones
September 30, 2012 - March 17, 2013
House & Home
April 28, 2012 - May 1, 2017
Designing Tomorrow: America’s World’s Fairs of the 1930s
October 2, 2010 - September 5, 2011
House of Cars: Innovation and the Parking Garage
October 17, 2009 - July 11, 2010
The Places We Live
September 18, 2009 - November 15, 2009
David Macaulay: The Art of Drawing Architecture
June 23, 2007 - May 4, 2008
Washington: Symbol and City
October 9, 2004 - January 1, 2013
Of Our Time: 2002 GSA Design Awards
March 27, 2003 - October 19, 2003
Exhibitions
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Green Schools |
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Detroit Disassembled |
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Detroit Is No Dry Bones |
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House & Home |
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Designing Tomorrow: America’s World’s Fairs of the 1930s |
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House of Cars: Innovation and the Parking Garage |
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The Places We Live |
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David Macaulay: The Art of Drawing Architecture |
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Washington: Symbol and City |
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Of Our Time: 2002 GSA Design Awards |
Program Series
Guys, Guns & Garages Film SeriesDetour: The Landscape of Travel on FilmBachelors, Secretaries, and Spies: Mid-century Style in American Film
2005 Reel Architecture Film Series
Articles
Cleaning Up the Cleaning Industry
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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What exactly does a landscape architect do?
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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Women of Architecture: Andrea Leers, FAIA and Jane Weinzapfel, FAIA
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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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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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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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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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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A Short Break with Paul Goldberger
November 6, 2012
National Building Museum Online contributor Andrew Caruso speaks with architecture critic Paul Goldberger, winner of the Museum's Vincent Scully Prize.
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Taliesin Diary
October 4, 2012
The National Building Museum recently published "Taliesin Diary: A Year With Frank Lloyd Wright", the first-ever publication of a diary by a Frank Lloyd Wright apprentice.
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Meet a Log Cabin Builder at the Big Build
September 10, 2012
Read the Museum's interview with Craig Jacobs of Salvagewrights, Ltd., the man behind the Big Build’s extremely popular log cabin display.
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Looking Back, Looking Forward: Notes on Detroit
September 10, 2012
On September 30, the National Building Museum opens two concurrent exhibitions on photography of Detroit: Detroit Is No Dry Bones: Photographs by Camilo José Vergara and Detroit Disassembled: Photographs by Andrew Moore. Curator Deborah Moore Sorenson reveals the city’s turbulent story of decline and rebirth behind this unprecedented photographic journey.
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Steven Holl: Not a ‘Signature’ Architect (And Why That’s Good)
August 22, 2012
National Building Museum Online contributor Andrew Caruso speaks with AIA Gold Medal-winning architect Steven Holl.
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Kevin Roche in His Own Words
June 6, 2012
Kevin Roche reflects on various projects he completed for Eero Saarinen and Associates in the early 1960s.
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Hancock²
May 31, 2012
For a limited time, you can see two large-scale models of Chicago’s famous John Hancock Center at the National Building Museum.
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Rising from Tragedy: A Conversation with Calatrava, Childs, and Libeskind
May 29, 2012
National Building Museum Online contributor Andrew Caruso speaks with three architects about the rebirth of the former World Trade Center site in lower Manhattan.
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UNBUILT
May 8, 2012
The National Building Museum presents two exhibitions on theme of unbuilt work at venues in Washington, D.C.
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The Day I Bought an Easy Bake Oven
May 8, 2012
House & Home curator Sarah Leavitt reveals the unorthodox and amusing story behind a wall of household objects that have both shaped and been shaped by American experiences of home.
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5x5 Public Art Project
April 12, 2012
The National Building Museum is participating in the 5x5 Project by hosting a unique art installation.
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Interview with an Architectural Icon: Juhani Pallasmaa
April 3, 2012
Juhani Pallasmaa has written and designed his way into the zeitgeist of architectural discourse. National Building Museum Online contributor Andrew Caruso interviewed Juhani during his time as a professor in residence and 2011 Walton Critic at The Catholic University of America.
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Education
M.A. Museum Studies, The George Washington University
B.A. Liberal Arts, Film Program, Columbia College
Research Interests
Film and the built environment
Location-based filmmaking
Documentary
Spatial experience of museum exhibitions
American culture of the interwar period
