Susan Piedmont-Palladino

Curator

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 Green Community and consulting curator for Masonry Variations and Big & Green: Toward Sustainable Architecture in the 21st Century. She is also a professor of architecture at Virginia Tech's Washington-Alexandria Architecture Center.

Piedmont-Palladino is 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 and on the American Architectural Foundation Television Advisory Board.  Piedmont-Palladino earned her bachelor's degree in the history of art from the College of William and Mary and her master's of architecture degree from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University.

Her interests include sustainable design and development, urbanism, design/build and modes of architectural practice.