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Spotlight on Design Lecture: Andrea Cochran
April 15, 2011
The founding principal of California-based Andrea Cochran Landscape Architecture, Andrea Cochran, FASLA, discusses her firm's recent residential and large-scale work
Hildreth Meière's Washington Frieze
April 15, 2011
Art Deco muralist Hildreth Meière designed an eighty-one-foot-long frieze depicting ten scenes illustrating public health and welfare benefits available to Washington residents in 1940.
For the Greener Good Passive House
April 7, 2011
What if the only heat for your home was the occupants’ body warmth? The For the Greener Good panelists discuss the growing popularity of hyper-energy efficient buildings called Passive Homes.
The Country
April 4, 2011
Full text of curator Susan Piedmont-Palladino's essay on "The Country" for Intelligent Cities.
2011 Charles H. Atherton Memorial Lecture with architect Jan Gehl
March 30, 2011
Jan Gehl, Danish architect, planner, and author, focuses on how Washington, D.C. can become a more sustainable and human-scaled city in the context of his work making cities across the United States more walkable and bikable.
Women of Architecture
March 17, 2011
National Building Museum Online spoke to Annabelle Selldorf about her background, design process, and role as a female architect in a male-dominated profession.
Walls Speak: The Narrative Art of Hildreth Meière
March 17, 2011
Learn about prominent artist Hildreth Meière in an excerpt from the exhibition catalogue Walls Speak: The Narrative Art of Hildreth Meière.
Historic Preservation vs. Sustainability--Can't we have both?
March 17, 2011
For the Greener Good lecture on March 24, 2011 from 6:30 to 8:00 pm at the National Building Museum
Spotlight on Design: Nieto Sobejano
March 14, 2011
The Spanish architecture firm Nieto Sobejano continues Spain’s architectural exploration of form and material in innovative ways. Founding principals Fuensanta Nieto and Enrique Sobejano discuss their work, including the Madinat al Zahra Museum in Córdoba, Spain, recipient of a 2010 Aga Kahn Award for Architecture.
The Region
March 4, 2011
Full text of curator Susan Piedmont-Palladino's essay on "The Region" for Intelligent Cities.
Walls Speak: The Narrative Art of Hildreth Meière Exhibition Opens
March 4, 2011
The National Building Museum proudly opens Walls Speak: The Narrative Art of Hildreth Meière, the first major retrospective of Hildreth Meière, a twentieth century Art Deco muralist, mosaicist, painter, and decorative artist.
Designing Tomorrow: America's World's Fairs of the 1930s
March 4, 2011
Designing Tomorrow: America's World's Fairs of the 1930s Press Images
The Architecture of Harry Weese
March 1, 2011
Robert Bruegmann, historian and author of The Architecture of Harry Weese (Norton), and Roger Lewis, The Washington Post's "Shaping the City" columnist, explore the life of Weese, focusing on his local work that includes the Washington, D.C. Metro system and Arena Stage and his role in selecting Maya Lin’s winning design for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
General Museum Press Images
February 25, 2011
Press images for the National Building Museum
Walls Speak: The Narrative Art of Hildreth Meière Press Images
February 25, 2011
Walls Speak: The Narrative Art of Hildreth Meière Press Images
