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
The Scene of the Crime: Parking Garages in the Movies
February 16, 2010
In this article, curatorial associate Deborah Sorensen, who collaborated on the Museum's exhibition House of Cars, discusses how parking garage locations have been put to use in crime films.
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Bachelor Modern: Mid-Century Style in American Film
June 1, 2008
A look at how Hollywood helped define popular perceptions of modern design during the post-World War II period.
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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
