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National Building Museum Online
Monthly E-Newsletter
Read interviews with designers, architects, educators, etc; short articles about Museum exhibitions and related stories; challenge your building knowledge with the latest Building Brain Buster or Mystery Building and more when you subscribe to National Building Museum Online.
Drawing Toward Home
Exhibition preview of "Drawing Toward Home," 100 drawings of domestic buildings in Historic New England’s collection
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Civic Innovator: New Orleans Habitat Musicians' Village
March 17, 2010
New Orleans Habitat Musicians' Village is being honored for its role as a civic innovator along with design firm Perkins+Will and the Department of Energy Solar Decathlon. In this interview, one of the Village's founders Jim Pate discusses the vision for the Village and its future.
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Green Garages: Oxymoron or Objective?
March 17, 2010
Sarah Leavitt, the curator of House of Cars, and Susan Piedmont-Palladino, curator of the recent exhibition Green Community, which surveyed outstanding examples of sustainable urban design, planning, and infrastructure, assess the past and present roles of parking garages in cities and their potential to contribute to more sustainable urbanism in the future.
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Connecting with the Landscape: An Interview with Mia Lehrer
March 17, 2010
National Building Museum Online asked Mia Lehrer about her 20 years as a landscape architect and her belief that landscape architecture is critical to the revisioning and recalibrating of a community and its public spaces.
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The Making of A Girl is a Fellow Here
February 16, 2010
An interview with architect Beverly Willis who wrote and directed the short documentary "A Girl is a Fellow Here": 100 Women Architects in the Studio of Frank Lloyd Wright. In the interview, Wright discuss the inspriation behind the film and how it was made.
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Civic Innovator Perkins+Will: An Interview with President and CEO Phil Harrison
February 16, 2010
The National Building Museum's 2010 Honor Award salutes civic innovators. One of the honorees, Perkins+Will is an architecture firm renowned for their socially-conscious designs. National Building Museum online interviewed Perkins+Will President and CEO Phil Harrison about the firm's legacy and what it means to receive the Museum's most prestigious award.
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The Scene of the Crime: Parking Garages in the Movies
February 16, 2010
In this article, curatorial associate Deborah Sorensen, who collaborated on the Museum's exhibition House of Cars, discusses how parking garage locations have been put to use in crime films.
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Inside the Lines: Parking and Social Stratification
January 22, 2010
In this essay, Sarah Leavitt looks at the history of segregation in parking, focusing on racial segregation in the mid 20th century.
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Crops in the City
January 20, 2010
The first program of the new season of the For the Greener Good series tackles urban agriculture and explores the rise in urban farming, farmers markets, edible landscapes, and more.
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New Members Join the Museum's Board of Trustees
December 17, 2009
In 2009, the National Building Museum welcomed ten new members to its Board of Trustees.
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