G. Martin Moeller, Jr.

Senior Vice President and Curator

Phone: x3451
Email: mmoeller@nbm.org

Martin Moeller is senior vice president and curator at the National Building Museum.  He has served as the lead curator for several of the Museum's exhibitions, including Liquid Stone: New Architecture in Concrete, and Reinventing the Globe: A Shakespearean Theater for the 21st Century.  In addition to his curatorial duties, Moeller edits the Museum's quarterly magazine, Blueprints, and frequently represents the institution as a speaker at conferences and as a commentator on television and radio programs.

Moeller previously served as the Museum's executive vice president and chief operating officer, with day-to-day responsibility for all exhibitions, education programs, development, and Museum operations.  He stepped down from this role in 2001 in order to have more time to pursue independent writing and consulting projects.

Before joining the National Building Museum in 1998, Moeller served as executive director of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, which represents the faculty of all colleges and universities with accredited architecture programs in the United States and Canada.  Prior to that, he was executive director of the Washington Chapter of the American Institute of Architects, and simultaneously served as executive vice president of the chapter's affiliated foundation, the Washington Architectural Forum.

In his positions with various non-profit organizations, Moeller has written, edited, and designed hundreds of publications.  Working independently, he was the author of the fourth edition of the AIA Guide to the Architecture of Washington, DC, published by the Johns Hopkins University Press in November 2006.  He was also the co-editor, with Jean-Louis Cohen, of Liquid Stone: New Architecture in Concrete, a book based on the exhibition of the same name, published by Princeton Architectural Press in June 2006. 

Moeller is an associate member of the American Institute of Architects.  He serves on the Dean's Advisory Committee for the Tulane University School of Architecture, and the Advisory Committee for Skyscraper: Achievement and Impact, a major new exhibition being developed by the Liberty Science Center in New Jersey.  He has served as a guest critic at six schools of architecture across the country.

Moeller holds a master of architecture degree from Tulane University in New Orleans.  He also studied architecture at the University of Manchester in England as part of Tulane's year-abroad program, which is limited to a small number of students selected through a competitive process.