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The National Building Museum has an extensive library of audio and video recordings of lectures, award ceremonies, and more events presented at the Museum. Take a tour of local green places or the Museum's exhibitions. You can also listen to audio from hundreds of lectures.

Recent Videos

The Art of Structural Tile


April 15, 2013
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Industry to Art: Revitalizing Cities through Culture


April 10, 2013
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M. Paul Friedberg

Spotlight on Design
April 3, 2013
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Cultural Investments: Economic Imact of the Arts


March 14, 2013
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Sprout Space Time Lapse


March 3, 2013
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Reconnecting the Grid

D.C. Builds
February 26, 2013
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Cultural Drivers


February 25, 2013
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Society of Women Engineers

Henry C. Turner Prize
February 5, 2013
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Sweet & Salt: Water and the Dutch


February 4, 2013
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Green Community Teaching Kit


January 29, 2013
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The Story Behind PLAY WORK BUILD


December 4, 2012
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Paul Goldberger: Fourteenth Vincent Scully Prize

Vincent Scully Prize
November 15, 2012
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Recent Audio Recordings

 

Smart, Green, and Connected

Smart Growth
April 17, 2013
How do designers measure success in urban revitalization projects? Landscape architect Kim Mathews, RLA, ASLA, principal of Mathews Nielsen, discusses resiliency and renewal through the lens of her firm’s Cinderella projects on New York City’s urban edge.
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A History of Future Cities


April 15, 2013
Daniel Brook discusses his book, A History of Future Cities, which examines four “instant cities”—St. Petersburg, Shanghai, Mumbai, and Dubai—to explore three centuries of the developing world’s attempts to modernize overnight.
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Portraits in Design: John Russell Pope

Portraits in Design
April 14, 2013
Steven McLeod Bedford, principal architectural historian at The Louis Berger Group, and author of John Russell Pope: Architect of Empire (Rizzoli) discusses John Russell Pope’s life and work, which includes Richmond, Virginia’s, Union Station, and the Thomas Jefferson Memorial and the West Wing of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.
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Notre Dame: The 21st Century Restoration of an Architectural Icon


April 4, 2013
Benjamin Mouton, Hon. AIA, chief architect of Historic Monuments of France, and vice president of ICOMOS, discusses the major restoration of Notre Dame Cathedral, the scientific grounds for historic monuments conservation, and the modern tools used by preservationists today.
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