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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



 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