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What exactly does a landscape architect do?
During National Landscape Architecture Month, celebrated during the month of April, there are plenty of opportunities to learn more about the profession and what exactly landscape architects do. It goes far beyond planting trees, shrubs, and flowers.

Cleaning Up the Cleaning Industry
Jeff Hawkins, director of custodial services for the Provo City School District in Provo, Utah, spoke with National Building Museum co-curator Sarah Leavitt about his award-winning work at Dixon Middle School for which he and his team recently received the Best Cleaning Industry Environmental Program Award.

Women of Architecture: Andrea Leers, FAIA and Jane Weinzapfel, FAIA
Andrea Leers, FAIA and Jane Weinzapfel, FAIA discuss their firm Leers Weinzapfel with the National Building Museum as part of the Women of Architecture lecture series.

Find Building, Get Lunch
John Ochsendorf, the MacArthur Fellow who organized our exhibition on Rafael Guastavino, is offering lunch to anyone who identifies an undocumented Gaustavino building.
April 17, 2013
Cultural Driver: Mary Margaret Jones
The National Building Museum interviews Mary Margaret Jones, FASLA, FAAR, president and senior principal of Hargreaves Associates, about the role of landscape architects and planners in cultural infrastructure.
February 5, 2013
Adopt a School
The National Building Museum's national curricula coordinator discusses the Museum's "Adopt a School" education programming.
February 5, 2013
Yang Yongliang: Piecing Together the City
National Building Museum Online contributor Andrew Caruso speaks with Chinese born graphic designer-turned digital artist Yang Yongliang.
January 14, 2013
A Short Break with Paul Goldberger
National Building Museum Online contributor Andrew Caruso speaks with architecture critic Paul Goldberger, winner of the Museum's Vincent Scully Prize.
November 6, 2012
Taliesin Diary
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.
October 4, 2012
Looking Back, Looking Forward: Notes on Detroit
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.
September 10, 2012

 

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