Susan Piedmont-Palladino
Curator
Phone: 202.272.2448, ext. 3412
Email: SPiedmont-palladino@nbm.org
Will accept inquiries about:
Sustainability and the built environment, including materials, practices, and examples
Exhibitions
U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon 2011 Finalists: A Special Presentation
May 1, 2010 - July 25, 2010
Green Community
October 23, 2008 - November 29, 2009
Tools of the Imagination
March 5, 2005 - October 10, 2005
Masonry Variations
October 18, 2003 - April 4, 2004
Big & Green: Toward Sustainable Architecture in the 21st Century
January 17, 2003 - June 22, 2003
Exhibitions
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U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon 2011 Finalists: A Special Presentation |
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Green Community |
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Tools of the Imagination |
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Masonry Variations |
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Big & Green: Toward Sustainable Architecture in the 21st Century |
Articles
Power Houses: The U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon
April 15, 2010
In this article, National Building Museum curator Susan Piedmont-Palladino examines how the Solar Decathlon, one of the Museum’s 2010 Honor Award recipients, has evolved over the years and how it has influenced energy-efficient housing design.
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Green Garages: Oxymoron or Objective?
March 17, 2010
Sarah Leavitt, the curator of House of Cars, and Susan Piedmont-Palladino, curator of the recent exhibition Green Community, which surveyed outstanding examples of sustainable urban design, planning, and infrastructure, assess the past and present roles of parking garages in cities and their potential to contribute to more sustainable urbanism in the future.
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Federal Modern
January 1, 2008
The nation's biggest landlord celebrates the jewels in its portfolio while freshening up the ugly ducklings.
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Education
Master of Architecture, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University
B.A. Fine Arts, College of William and Mary
Research Interests
American urbanism, sustainable design, political space
Fostering a public discourse about the value of the built environment
Selected Publications
Green Community, American Planning Association, 2009
Tools of the Imagination, Princeton Architectural Press, 2006
Contributor, Design Professions and the Built Environment, John Wiley and Sons, 2000, ed. Peter Ozolins and Paul Knox
Devil's Workshop: 25 Years of Jersey Devil Architecture, Princeton Architectural Press, 1997
Overview
Susan Piedmont-Palladino is an architect and curator at the National Building Museum. Since joining the Museum in 2002, she has served as guest curator for Tools of the Imagination and consulting curator for Masonry Variations and Big & Green: Toward Sustainable Architecture in the 21st Century. Her most recent exhibition, Green Community, was featured at the Museum from October 2008 through November 2009. She is also a professor of architecture at Virginia Tech’s Washington-Alexandria Architecture Center.
Ms. Piedmont-Palladino co-edited Green Community, a series of essays on sustainable urban design, planning, and systems published by the American Planning Association in 2009. She is also the editor of Tools of the Imagination (Princeton Architectural Press), the companion book to the exhibit of the same name. She is the author of Devil’s Workshop: 25 Years of Jersey Devil Architecture (John Wiley and Sons, 2000), and contributor to Design Professions and the Built Environment (Princeton Architectural Press, 1997). She is the former national president of Architects/Designers/Planners for Social Responsibility and served on the design committee for the National Peace Garden Foundation.
