G. Martin Moeller, Jr.
Senior Curator
Phone: 202.272.2448, ext. 3451
Email: mmoeller@nbm.org
Will accept inquiries about:
Architecture of Washington, D.C.
General architectural history
Exhibition topics (see below)
Exhibitions
Unbuilt Washington
November 19, 2011 - May 28, 2012
Detour: Architecture and Design along 18 National Tourist Routes in Norway
January 28, 2009 - May 25, 2009
Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future
May 3, 2008 - August 24, 2008
Lasting Foundations: The Art of Architecture in Africa
October 6, 2007 - January 13, 2008
Reinventing the Globe: A Shakespearean Theater for the 21st Century
January 13, 2007 - October 8, 2007
Liquid Stone: New Architecture in Concrete
June 19, 2004 - January 29, 2006
The Turner City Collection: Rendering a Century of Building
April 22, 2002 - November 3, 2002
Exhibitions
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Unbuilt Washington |
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Detour: Architecture and Design along 18 National Tourist Routes in Norway |
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Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future |
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Lasting Foundations: The Art of Architecture in Africa |
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Reinventing the Globe: A Shakespearean Theater for the 21st Century |
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Liquid Stone: New Architecture in Concrete |
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The Turner City Collection: Rendering a Century of Building |
Additional Exhibitions
Frank Lloyd Wright: Windows of the Darwin D. Martin House
Big & Green: Toward Sustainable Architecture in the 21st Century
Building America (online exhibition)
D.C. Builds: The Anacostia Waterfront
Give Us Your Best: An Exhibition of Washington Architects' Work
The Green House: New Directions in Sustainable Architecture and Design
Hugh Newell Jacobsen, Architect: A Retrospective
Masonry Variations
Monuments, Mills, and Missile Sites: Thirty Years of the Historic American Engineering Record
Newer Orleans—A Shared Space
El Nuevo Mundo: The Landscape of Latino Los Angeles
OPEN: New Designs for Public Space
See the U.S.A.: Automobile Travel and the American Landscape
An Urban Experiment in Central Berlin: Planning Potsdamer Platz
Visions of Home
Visions/Revisions: The Second DC/AIA Biennial Exhibition
Washington: Symbol and City
The White House in Miniature
Articles
Bricklayers at the Big Build
On September 21, 2013, the National Building Museum hosts its annual free festival, the Big Build: A Hands-On Family Festival of Tools, Trucks and Construction. To learn more about the building professionals who present their work at the festival, we talked to Robert Arnold from the International Masonry Institute, the team behind the festival’s extremely popular brick laying display. Bring your family to the Big Build to meet Robert and other building professionals in person.
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The Charles Goodman Project
In an effort to document the work and legacy of architect Charles M. Goodman, FAIA (1906-1992), the Washington area’s preeminent mid-century modernist, the National Building Museum conducted a series of interviews with architects and historians who either worked with him or studied his work.
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Harnessing Friction on the High Line
The National Building Museum awards the fifteenth Vincent Scully Prize to Friends of the High Line co-founders, Joshua David and Robert Hammond, for their work in creating one of the most successful urban revitalization projects to date.
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Los Angeles Constructs the Future
October 3, 2013
Christopher Alexander, assistant curator of architecture and design at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles and co-curator of Overdrive, talked with the National Building Museum about the exhibition Overdrive: L.A. Constructs the Future, 1940-1990.
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Thom Mayne: Inquiry is Everything
September 25, 2013
National Building Museum and Metropolis Magazine Contributor Andrew Caruso recently sat down with AIA Gold Medalist and "bad boy" of architecture Thom Mayne.
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Olso Architecture Triennale - Part 2
September 20, 2013
Food and Architecture—linked in so many ways
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Oslo Architecture Triennale - Part 1
September 19, 2013
National Building Museum executive director Chase W. Rynd, Hon. ASLA, visits the Oslo Architecture Triennale.
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Rearranged, Floral Arrangements Get Repurposed
June 28, 2013
The floral arrangements at this year's Honor Award qala blossomed a second time at the USO Wounded Warrior and Family Center at Ft. Belvoir.
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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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Women of Architecture: Andrea Leers, FAIA and Jane Weinzapfel, FAIA
April 1, 2013
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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What exactly does a landscape architect do?
April 1, 2013
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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Cleaning Up the Cleaning Industry
March 1, 2013
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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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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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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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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Education
Master of Architecture, Tulane University
Bachelor of Architecture, Tulane University
Foreign Study Program, University of Manchester, England
Research Interests
Architectural education
Architectural history of Washington, DC
Architectural history of New Orleans
Architecture and design of the 1930s
Concrete technology and design
Contemporary architecture and design
Design for commercial aviation
Design of ocean liners
Urban history
Selected Publications
Liquid Stone: New Architecture in Concrete, Princeton Architectural Press, 2006, co-editor
AIA Guide to the Architecture of Washington, DC, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006, author
Blueprints, 2001-present, editor
ArchitectureDC, 2007-present, editor
