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2009 Scully Prize Alexander: Media Advisory
October 21, 2009
Christopher Alexander named eleventh Vincent Scully Prize Laureate.
Spotlight on Design: Léon Krier
October 20, 2009
Léon Krier will discuss his work, including the Krier House and Tower in Seaside, Florida and the town of Poundbury in England, which he designed for the Prince of Wales.
National Building Museum Online Evolves
October 15, 2009
Over the next few months, we will be making some changes to National Building Museum Online, gradually incorporating some of the material that previously appeared only in Blueprints.
House of Cars
October 15, 2009
The National Building Museum’s new exhibition, House of Cars: Innovation and the Parking Garage, explores the integration of parking into our cities and towns over the past century and invites us to look more closely at parking issues as we plan our future communities.
Urban Portraiture
October 15, 2009
Camilo José Vergara, one of the nation’s foremost urban documentarians, has been photographing the landscape of urban poverty for nearly 40 years. In this article, Chrysanthe B. Broikos, curator of the National Building Museum’s exhibition Storefront Churches: Photographs by Camilo José Vergara on display through November 29, examines the elements of portraiture in Vergara’s photographs of Christian houses of worship in the inner city.
Green Community, a ground-breaking new book, published by the National Building Museum and the American Planning Association
October 13, 2009
The book and its essays focus on the interconnectivity of density and transportation, conservation and preservation, energy and resources, and local health and global health. The contributors represent a diverse range of backgrounds and perspectives, resulting in a multi-disciplinary collection of essays which examine the people and places of sustainable communities.
2009 Festival of the Building Arts
September 29, 2009
At the National Building Museum's annual Festival of the Building Arts the Museum presents the ABC's and D's of our built environment: Artisans and Architects, Builders, Contractors and Craftspeople, and Designers and Decorators. Visitors of all ages can join in the fun!
Greenovation
September 15, 2009
An Interview with Bill Sisson, Director of Sustainability at United Technologies Corporation
The Places We Live
September 15, 2009
In a multimedia installation, visitors are admitted into the homes of 20 different families in four slums from around the world: Kibera in Nairobi, Kenya; Dharavi in Mumbai India; several barrios within Caracas, Venezuela; and the kampongs of Jakarta, Indonesia and are compelled to consider what it means to live in a city in the 21st century.
Create Your Own Behind-the-Scenes Look at Green Public Spaces
September 8, 2009
We’re calling on architects, planners, landscape architects, students, and the general public to grab a video camera, or even their cell phone, and document great green places in their communities. Films should be no longer than six minutes and should investigate what works as the local neighborhood’s “Great Green Place.”
House of Cars: Press Release
August 24, 2009
Press release for the National Building Museum's new exhibition "House of Cars: Innovation and the Parking Garage" opening October 17, 2009.
House of Cars: Media Advisory
August 3, 2009
Open from October 17, 2009 through July 11, 2010, House of Cars: Innovation and the Parking Garage is the first major exhibition to explore this familiar structure and open conversations about parking’s role in our society and innovative parking solutions for the future.
2009 Investigating Where We Live: Media Advisory
July 30, 2009
The Museum's summer outreach program Investigating Where We Live culminates with the opening of the student designed exhibition featuring their photographs, artwork, and writings.
Exploring the Nature of Nature
July 20, 2009
National Building Museum Online contributor and Gensler’s Director of Intern Development Andrew Caruso, Assoc. AIA, LEED AP, spoke with Kundig about the nature of his practice, moving architecture, and the art of mountain climbing.
How should we plan, design, and construct the world between our buildings?
July 16, 2009
Inspired by the Museum’s Green Community exhibition that explores the past, present, and future of sustainable towns and cities, students were asked to locate a site in their community or region, identify the barriers and strengths to living sustainably, and develop a proposal to improve ways to create a flourishing and sustainable community using the tools of the environmental design disciplines: architecture, landscape architecture, and urban planning.
