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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. New content is added regularly so be sure to check back often to see what's new! Here are the most recent additions to the Museum's multimedia:

Urban Agriculture For the Greener Good January 26, 2010 Watch.

How to Make a Green Roof December 18, 2009 Watch.

Christopher Alexander: Eleventh Vincent Scully Prize Recipient Vincent Scully Prize November 5, 2009 Watch.

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Issues	Any Affordable Housing Art, Photography, Design Objects Arts and Culture Building Materials and Tools Community Outreach Competitions Design Education Design Process Design Theory and History Domestic Culture Energy Efficiency Environment Gender and Race in Building Health and Medicine Historic Preservation Interiors Landscape Libraries Military Nuclear Energy Rural Sports & Recreation Suburban Sustainability Urban Urban Planning
Architectural Style	Any Amorphous/Blob Art Deco Arts and Crafts Baroque Bauhaus Brutalism Civic Classical Commercial Contemporary Deconstructivism Elizabethan Environmentally Sustainable Federal Futurist Georgian Gothic Gothic Revival Greek Revival Islamic Italianate Japanese Traditional Mannerist Minimalist Mission Modern Neo Classical New Urbanism Organic Post Modern Public Space Regionalism Renaissance Residential Romanesque Spritual & Religious Vernacular
Disciplines	Any Anthropology & Social History Architecture Art Construction Engineering Historic Preservation Industrial Design Interior Design Landscape Architecture Photography Real Estate Development and Finance Urban Planning and Design
Exhibition	Any 5 Friends from Japan: Children in Japan Today A Building Tradition: The Work of the Prince’s School of Traditional Arts A Celebration of HRH The Prince of Wales’s Influence on the Built Environment A Genius for Place: American Landscapes of the Country Place Era A New World Trade Center: Design Proposals Affordable Housing: Designing an American Asset Architectural Toy Collection Architecture of Authority: Photographs by Richard Ross Big & Green: Toward Sustainable Architecture in the 21st Century Building a Landmark: The National Building Museum's Historic Home Building Images: Seventy Years of Photography at Hedrich Blessing Building Zone Cesar Pelli: Connections Cityscapes Revealed: Highlights from the Collection Civitas: Traditional Urbanism in Contemporary Practice Creative Works in the City David Macaulay: The Art of Drawing Architecture DC Builds: The Anacostia Waterfront Designing Tomorrow: America’s World’s Fairs of the 1930s Detour: Architecture and Design along 18 National Tourist Routes in Norway Do-It-Yourself: Home Improvement in 20th-Century America Drawing Toward Home: Designs for Domestic Architecture from Historic New England Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future Envisioning Architecture: Drawings from the Museum of Modern Art, New York Form and Movement: Photographs by Philip Trager From Arts and Crafts To Modern Design: The Architecture of William L. Price Green Community House and Home House of Cars: Innovation and the Parking Garage Investigating Where We Live 2005 Investigating Where We Live 2006 Investigating Where We Live 2008 Investigating Where We Live 2009 Jewish Washington: Scrapbook of an American Community Julius Shulman: Modernity and the Metropolis Kid's View of the City 2004: Eaton Elementary School Student Projects Kids’ View of the City 2005: Eaton Elementary School Student Projects Lasting Foundations: The Art of Architecture in Africa Life Without Leaves Liquid Stone: New Architecture in Concrete Marcel Breuer: Design and Architecture Masonry Variations Me, Myself and Infrastructure: Private Lives and Public Works in America Monuments and Memory: Washington, DC Architects Explore the Language of the Monuments Newer Orleans: A Shared Space Of Our Time: 2002 GSA Design Awards OPEN: New Designs for Public Space Origami as Architecture Picture This: Windows on the American Home Prairie Skyscraper: Frank Lloyd Wright’s Price Tower Reinventing the Globe: A Shakespearean Theater for the 21st Century Rowhouse Redux: Washington Architects Renew City Living Samuel Mockbee and the Rural Studio: Community Architecture Saving Mount Vernon: The Birthplace of Preservation of America Special Presentation: The World Trade Center Model Storefront Churches: Photographs by Camilo José Vergara Stories of Home: Photographs by Bill Bamberger Symphony in Steel: Ironworkers and the Walt Disney Concert Hall The Art of Recycling: The Coolest Show in Town The Green House: New Directions in Sustainable Architecture and Design The Places We Live The Turner City Collection: Rendering a Century of Building Tools As Art: The Hechinger Collection--Instruments of Change Tools of the Imagination Twin Towers Remembered: A Selection of Camilo José Vergara’s photographs Unbuilt Washington Up, Down, Across: Elevators, Escalators, and Moving Sidewalks Washington: Symbol and City Windows on Work: Richard Neutra’s House for the John Nicholas Brown Family Windshield: Richard Neutra’s House for the John Nicholas Brown Family Zaha Hadid Laboratory
Series	Any Bachelors, Secretaries, and Spies: Mid-century Style in American Film Big & Green Book of the Month Literacy Program Building in the 21st Century Building in the Aftermath Building Tours Charles H. Atherton Memorial Lecture Community in the Aftermath Construction Watch Tours D.C. Builds DC Environmental Film Festival Design Apprenticeship Program Detour: The Landscape of Travel on Film Film Series: Guys, Guns & Garages For the Greener Good Framing a Capital City Great Green Places Great Green Places Green Roofs Greenovation Henry C. Turner Prize Honor Award L'Enfant Lecture on City Planning and Design Smart Growth Spotlight on Design Sustainable Communities Sustainable Design: New Directions for Affordable Housing Symposium Vincent Scully Prize Women of Architecture
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Issues	Any Affordable Housing Art, Photography, Design Objects Arts and Culture Building Materials and Tools Community Outreach Competitions Design Education Design Process Design Theory and History Domestic Culture Energy Efficiency Environment Gender and Race in Building Health and Medicine Historic Preservation Interiors Landscape Libraries Military Nuclear Energy Rural Sports & Recreation Suburban Sustainability Urban Urban Planning
Architectural Style	Any Amorphous/Blob Art Deco Arts and Crafts Baroque Bauhaus Brutalism Civic Classical Commercial Contemporary Deconstructivism Elizabethan Environmentally Sustainable Federal Futurist Georgian Gothic Gothic Revival Greek Revival Islamic Italianate Japanese Traditional Mannerist Minimalist Mission Modern Neo Classical New Urbanism Organic Post Modern Public Space Regionalism Renaissance Residential Romanesque Spritual & Religious Vernacular
Disciplines	Any Anthropology & Social History Architecture Art Construction Engineering Historic Preservation Industrial Design Interior Design Landscape Architecture Photography Real Estate Development and Finance Urban Planning and Design
Exhibition	Any 5 Friends from Japan: Children in Japan Today A Building Tradition: The Work of the Prince’s School of Traditional Arts A Celebration of HRH The Prince of Wales’s Influence on the Built Environment A Genius for Place: American Landscapes of the Country Place Era A New World Trade Center: Design Proposals Affordable Housing: Designing an American Asset Architectural Toy Collection Architecture of Authority: Photographs by Richard Ross Big & Green: Toward Sustainable Architecture in the 21st Century Building a Landmark: The National Building Museum's Historic Home Building Images: Seventy Years of Photography at Hedrich Blessing Building Zone Cesar Pelli: Connections Cityscapes Revealed: Highlights from the Collection Civitas: Traditional Urbanism in Contemporary Practice Creative Works in the City David Macaulay: The Art of Drawing Architecture DC Builds: The Anacostia Waterfront Designing Tomorrow: America’s World’s Fairs of the 1930s Detour: Architecture and Design along 18 National Tourist Routes in Norway Do-It-Yourself: Home Improvement in 20th-Century America Drawing Toward Home: Designs for Domestic Architecture from Historic New England Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future Envisioning Architecture: Drawings from the Museum of Modern Art, New York Form and Movement: Photographs by Philip Trager From Arts and Crafts To Modern Design: The Architecture of William L. Price Green Community House and Home House of Cars: Innovation and the Parking Garage Investigating Where We Live 2005 Investigating Where We Live 2006 Investigating Where We Live 2008 Investigating Where We Live 2009 Jewish Washington: Scrapbook of an American Community Julius Shulman: Modernity and the Metropolis Kid's View of the City 2004: Eaton Elementary School Student Projects Kids’ View of the City 2005: Eaton Elementary School Student Projects Lasting Foundations: The Art of Architecture in Africa Life Without Leaves Liquid Stone: New Architecture in Concrete Marcel Breuer: Design and Architecture Masonry Variations Me, Myself and Infrastructure: Private Lives and Public Works in America Monuments and Memory: Washington, DC Architects Explore the Language of the Monuments Newer Orleans: A Shared Space Of Our Time: 2002 GSA Design Awards OPEN: New Designs for Public Space Origami as Architecture Picture This: Windows on the American Home Prairie Skyscraper: Frank Lloyd Wright’s Price Tower Reinventing the Globe: A Shakespearean Theater for the 21st Century Rowhouse Redux: Washington Architects Renew City Living Samuel Mockbee and the Rural Studio: Community Architecture Saving Mount Vernon: The Birthplace of Preservation of America Special Presentation: The World Trade Center Model Storefront Churches: Photographs by Camilo José Vergara Stories of Home: Photographs by Bill Bamberger Symphony in Steel: Ironworkers and the Walt Disney Concert Hall The Art of Recycling: The Coolest Show in Town The Green House: New Directions in Sustainable Architecture and Design The Places We Live The Turner City Collection: Rendering a Century of Building Tools As Art: The Hechinger Collection--Instruments of Change Tools of the Imagination Twin Towers Remembered: A Selection of Camilo José Vergara’s photographs Unbuilt Washington Up, Down, Across: Elevators, Escalators, and Moving Sidewalks Washington: Symbol and City Windows on Work: Richard Neutra’s House for the John Nicholas Brown Family Windshield: Richard Neutra’s House for the John Nicholas Brown Family Zaha Hadid Laboratory
Series	Any Bachelors, Secretaries, and Spies: Mid-century Style in American Film Big & Green Book of the Month Literacy Program Building in the 21st Century Building in the Aftermath Building Tours Charles H. Atherton Memorial Lecture Community in the Aftermath Construction Watch Tours D.C. Builds DC Environmental Film Festival Design Apprenticeship Program Detour: The Landscape of Travel on Film Film Series: Guys, Guns & Garages For the Greener Good Framing a Capital City Great Green Places Great Green Places Green Roofs Greenovation Henry C. Turner Prize Honor Award L'Enfant Lecture on City Planning and Design Smart Growth Spotlight on Design Sustainable Communities Sustainable Design: New Directions for Affordable Housing Symposium Vincent Scully Prize Women of Architecture
Features or Materials	Any Column Concrete HVAC Kitchen Masonry Plumbing Roofs Stair Steel Wall Windows Wood
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