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Spotlight on Design Lecture with Abalos+Sentkiewicz
October 23, 2012
The Madrid-based studio Ábalos+Sentkiewicz arquitectos discusses their integration between architecture, environment, and landscape, called "thermodynamic beauty."
D.C. Builds: Reconnecting the Grid
October 22, 2012
Experts discuss the design, engineering, and construction challenges of the plan to deck over the exposed portion of I-395 and reweave Washington, D.C.’s F and G Streets, NW back into the urban fabric.
National Building Museum Names Six to its Board of Trustees
October 19, 2012
National Building Museum chair Whayne S. Quin announces the appointment of six new Museum trustees.
Girl Scout Day
October 18, 2012
Join us for Girl Scout Day at the National Building Museum, a day designed especially for Daisy, Brownie, and Junior Girl Scouts.
New Book Offers Inside Look at Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin Architectural Colony
October 12, 2012
The National Building Museum and W.W. Norton & Company have published first-ever diary to come from Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin Fellowship.
Home Movie Day
October 12, 2012
Share your films (or just watch everyone else’s), see films from local institutions, learn how to save them for future generations, and play Home Movie Day bingo at the National Building Museum.
Spotlight on Design Lecture with West 8
October 9, 2012
Adriaan Geuze, a founding partner of the Rotterdam-based landscape architecture firm West 8, discusses the studio's projects.
Panel Discusses Urban Design and Architecture in the Public Realm
October 5, 2012
David M. Childs, FAIA, consulting design partner at SOM and former chairman of the National Capital Planning Commission, receives the American Architectural Foundation’s inaugural George M. White Award.
Taliesin Diary
October 4, 2012
The National Building Museum recently published "Taliesin Diary: A Year With Frank Lloyd Wright", the first-ever publication of a diary by a Frank Lloyd Wright apprentice.
Spotlight on Design Lecture with Lewis.Tsurumaki.Lewis
September 18, 2012
The architecture firm of Lewis.Tsurumaki.Lewis uses the constraints of small budgets, awkward spaces, and strict zoning to generate innovative architecture. Marc Tsurumaki, AIA, LEED® AP, one of the founding principals of the studio, shows how this “opportunistic architecture” results in compelling projects.
Interior Design Series Lecture Focuses on 18th Century Wallpaper
September 11, 2012
Author Judy Anderson discusses the original hand-painted English wallpapers that embellished the opulent interiors of the 1766-68 Jeremiah Lee Mansion.
The National Building Museum’s Board of Trustees Elects Whayne S. Quin as Chair
September 10, 2012
On October 1, 2012, Whayne S. Quin begins his three-year term as Chair of the Board of Trustees at the National Building Museum, succeeding Michael Glosserman, who is completing his second term as Chair.
Meet a Log Cabin Builder at the Big Build
September 10, 2012
Read the Museum's interview with Craig Jacobs of Salvagewrights, Ltd., the man behind the Big Build’s extremely popular log cabin display.
Looking Back, Looking Forward: Notes on Detroit
September 10, 2012
On September 30, the National Building Museum opens two concurrent exhibitions on photography of Detroit: Detroit Is No Dry Bones: Photographs by Camilo José Vergara and Detroit Disassembled: Photographs by Andrew Moore. Curator Deborah Moore Sorenson reveals the city’s turbulent story of decline and rebirth behind this unprecedented photographic journey.
National Building Museum Names Paul Goldberger as the Fourteenth Laureate of the Vincent Scully Prize
August 29, 2012
The National Building Museum presents its fourteenth Vincent Scully Prize to Pulitzer Prize-winning architecture critic Paul Goldberger, for his lifetime work of encouraging thoughtful discourse and debate about the importance of design.
