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Audio Library
Spotlight on Design: Thomas Phifer
Spotlight on Design
March 7, 2008
Thomas Phifer, AIA, principal of New York-based firm Thomas Phifer and Partners, discusses how his work is expanding the traditional role of the architect and his firm’s close collaboration with other professionals.
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EnergyPlus and Google SketchUp: The Next Phase of High-Performance Building Design
Building in the 21st Century
March 6, 2008
Speakers discuss EnergyPlus and Google SketchUp’s role in changing how architects and designers plan and organize a building’s design.
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What Makes Great Streets?
D.C. Builds
February 28, 2008
Panelists Petronella Muraya, professor of Georgraphy, Howard University; Darrel Ruppeteau, Rippeteau Architects PC; Emeka C. Moneme, director, District Department of Transportation; and Joe Englert, DC nightclub impresario, discuss the essential components necessary to create vibrant, livable streets in Washington, DC.
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Spotlight on Design: KieranTimberlake Associates
Spotlight on Design
February 23, 2008
For nearly 25 years, Kieran Timberlake Associates has designed holistic buildings that uniquely connect the site and program to people. Recipients of the 2008 Architecture Firm Award from the American Institute of Architects, Stephen Kieran, FAIA, and James Timberlake, FAIA, founding partners of the Philadelphia-based firm, will discuss their research-based approach to making architecture, which includes Loblolly House, an off-site-fabricated residence in Taylors Island, Maryland, and Sidwell Friends Middle School in Washington, DC.
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In Like Flint
Bachelors, Secretaries, and Spies: Mid-century Style in American Film
February 20, 2008
See some of the interesting ways films portray “modern” on the silver screen during this three week film series, Ann Hornaday, Washington Post film critic, and Deborah Sorensen, curatorial associate at the National Building Museum, will introduce each film. "In Like Flint" is one of the ultimate spy spoof fantasies; the Flint films are extravaganzas of over-the-top Sixties style.
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The Best of Everything
Bachelors, Secretaries, and Spies: Mid-century Style in American Film
February 13, 2008
See some of the interesting ways films portray “modern” on the silver screen during this three week film series, Ann Hornaday, Washington Post film critic, and Deborah Sorensen, curatorial associate at the National Building Museum, will introduce each film. In "The Best of Everything," Joan Crawford tears up the secretary pool in this melodrama about working girls in the big city. Set in the newly completed Seagram Building (Mies van der Rohe, 1954–58).
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The Revitalizing of Washington, D.C.'s Gallery Place/Penn Quarter Neighborhood
Smart Growth
February 7, 2008
Stewart Schwartz, executive director, Coalition for Smarter Growth, and Eric Price, vice preseident Adbo Development and former Deputy Mayor of of Washington, DC, discuss the revitalization of the Gallery Place/Penn Quarter neighborhood, specifically its anchor-the Verizon Center.
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The Role of Business Improvement Districts in Creating Successful Downtown and Neighborhood Centers.
Smart Growth
January 22, 2008
Rick Reinhard, deputy executive director of the Downtown DC BID, discusses how BIDs can link private and public sectors to create vibrant urban communities.
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