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Audio Library
Spotlight on Design: Valerio Olgiati
Spotlight on Design
October 5, 2006
The buildings of Swiss architect Valerio Olgiati exhibit a clean minimalism and clear understanding of pristine and sturdy construction. In this lecture, Olgiati discusses his firm’s approach to design, including the School in Paspels, Das gelbe Haus in Flims, and the new Visitor Center for the Swiss National Park.
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Attractive Building Design Solutions and High-Performance Results
Building in the 21st Century
October 4, 2006
William Browning, partner, Browning+Bannon, LLC, shares his perspective on integrated building design, highliting the design approach and results from the Bank of America Tower in New York, the California Academy of Sciences, the GSA San Francisco complex, and XiHu Tiendi in Hangzhou, China.
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High Performance, Green Commercial Buildings
Building in the 21st Century
September 14, 2006
Dennis Creech, co-founder and executive director of Southface Energy Institute, talks about the benefits to and strategies for improving building energy consumption.
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Building Energy Efficiency
Building in the 21st Century
June 13, 2006
Philip Fairey, deputy director of the Florida Solar Energy Center, discusses the challenges of getting past world oil peaking and dealing with global warming.
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International Space Station Teleconference
February 16, 2006
Listen to a teleconference with the International Space Station from the February 2006 Discover Engineering Family Day festival, which featured a live question-and-answer session with the astronauts.
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Spotlight on Design: Moshe Safdie
Spotlight on Design
February 16, 2006
Moshe Safdie discusses his recent museum designs, which include the Boston Museum, the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts, the Skirball Museum and Cultural Center in Los Angeles, and the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem.
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Spotlight on Design: Antoine Predock
Spotlight on Design
February 11, 2006
AIA Gold Medalist Antoine Predock speaks at the National Building Museum as part of the Spotlight on Design lecture series sponsored by Lafarge.
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Steve Nadel
Building in the 21st Century
January 24, 2006
Steve Nadel gives a presentation as part of the National Building Museum's Building for the 21st Century lecture series.
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The 2005 Solar Decathlon
Building in the 21st Century
November 1, 2005
Richard King with the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy discusses Solar Decathlon competition and its results.
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Spotlight on Design: James Eyre
Spotlight on Design
September 19, 2005
James Eyre, RIBA, discusses Wilkinson Eyre Architects’ projects, including the Gateshead Millennium Bridge, the National Waterfront Museum in Swansea, Wales, and his proposal for a tensegrity bridge spanning the National Building Museum’s Great Hall.
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