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Cultural Driver: Mary Margaret Jones
February 5, 2013
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.
Green Schools
January 24, 2013
New Exhibition Provides Unprecedented Survey of Environmental Designs
Opening at the National Building Museum March 3, 2013
Spotlight on Design Lecture with Jamie Drake
January 15, 2013
Drake Design Associates founder, Jamie Drake, discusses success during the Spotlight on Design lecture series at the National Building Museum.
Yang Yongliang: Piecing Together the City
January 14, 2013
National Building Museum Online contributor Andrew Caruso speaks with Chinese born graphic designer-turned digital artist Yang Yongliang.
Society of Women Engineers to Receive the National Building Museum's Henry C. Turner Prize for Innovation in Construction Technology Award
December 11, 2012
The National Building Museum will award the Society of Women Engineers its Henry C. Turner Prize for Innovation in Construction Technology on February 5, 2013. The Turner Prize jury chose the Society of Women Engineers for its more than 60-year history of giving women engineers a unique place and voice within the engineering industry. The Society currently serves more than 22,000 members and is a proponent of strengthening science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education for women.
CONSTRUCTING PLAY
November 12, 2012
The National Building Museum, in collaboration with internationally renowned design firm Rockwell Group, presents a hands-on, interactive exhibition exploring the history and creative range of block play, PLAY WORK BUILD.
A Short Break with Paul Goldberger
November 6, 2012
National Building Museum Online contributor Andrew Caruso speaks with architecture critic Paul Goldberger, winner of the Museum's Vincent Scully Prize.
Homeschool Day
November 5, 2012
At the National Building Museum, homeschool students ages 4-14 can explore the people, processes, and materials that create buildings and places by becoming city planners, designers, and engineers.
Spotlight on Design Lecture with Abalos+Sentkiewicz
October 23, 2012
The Madrid-based studio Ábalos+Sentkiewicz arquitectos discusses their integration between architecture, environment, and landscape, called "thermodynamic beauty."
D.C. Builds: Reconnecting the Grid
October 22, 2012
Experts discuss the design, engineering, and construction challenges of the plan to deck over the exposed portion of I-395 and reweave Washington, D.C.’s F and G Streets, NW back into the urban fabric.
National Building Museum Names Six to its Board of Trustees
October 19, 2012
National Building Museum chair Whayne S. Quin announces the appointment of six new Museum trustees.
Girl Scout Day
October 18, 2012
Join us for Girl Scout Day at the National Building Museum, a day designed especially for Daisy, Brownie, and Junior Girl Scouts.
Home Movie Day
October 12, 2012
Share your films (or just watch everyone else’s), see films from local institutions, learn how to save them for future generations, and play Home Movie Day bingo at the National Building Museum.
New Book Offers Inside Look at Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin Architectural Colony
October 12, 2012
The National Building Museum and W.W. Norton & Company have published first-ever diary to come from Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin Fellowship.
Spotlight on Design Lecture with West 8
October 9, 2012
Adriaan Geuze, a founding partner of the Rotterdam-based landscape architecture firm West 8, discusses the studio's projects.
