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Displaying results 1 - 10 of 97 items found. 1. Transcript: L’Enfant Lecture: Sir Peter Hall: “The Sustainable City: A Mythical Beast?” (File; Tue Nov 06 15:10:00 CST 2007) Description: Sir Peter Hall, director of the Institute of Community Studies and Professor of Planning at the Bartlett School of Architecture and Planning, University College, London and the author or editor of over 35 books, gave the inaugural lecture in the L'Enfant Lecture series on City Planning and Design, designed to draw attention to major planning issues throughout the world. 2. Green Affordable Housing Overview (File; Mon Nov 19 14:05:00 CST 2007) Description: This program overview was produced for the National Building Museum's Symposium on Green Afforable Housing and briefly describes the need for green affordable housing, the benefits of greening affordable housing, green building process and practices. 3. National Building Museum Receives a $600,000 Grant from the Home Depot Foundation (File; Mon Nov 19 14:11:00 CST 2007) Description: The National Building Museum, a congressionally chartered institution that educates the public about the building arts and sciences, today announced that it has received a $600,000 grant from The Home Depot Foundation to further educational efforts toward a more sustainable built environment. (File; Wed Jan 09 15:33:00 CST 2008) Description: The National Building Museum's 2006 annual report. 5. Red Pepper Drawing Activity (File; Thu Jan 10 14:51:00 CST 2008) Description: Try elevation, plan, and section drawings. 6. Patterns Here, There, and Everywhere (File; Mon Apr 21 16:18:00 CDT 2008) Description: Educator resource packet for the school program: Patterns Here, There, and Everywhere 7. Transcript: Urban Infrastructure in the Third Millennium (File; Tue Nov 06 15:03:00 CST 2007) Description: October 1, 2002 In a lecture at the opening of the exhibition Me, Myself and Infrastucture: Private Lives and Public Works in America underwritten at the Museum by the American Society of Civil Engineers, Robert Prieto, chairman of Parsons Brinckerhoff, Inc.—a firm that has provided planning, engineering and management services for more than a century—explored the challenges of designing and building infrastructure for cities in the future. He discussed how cities are heavily engineered environments that must support people's economic, social, technological and recreational needs. Tomorrow's cities face the demand for new, highly secure infrastructure that will provide mobility and connectivity. 8. Transcript: Re-imagining Ground Zero (File; Tue Nov 06 15:06:00 CST 2007) Description: April 7, 2002 In this symposium, architects and artists participating in the exhibition titled A New World Trade Center: Design Proposals, which opened at the Museum on April 6, discussed how the redevelopment of the World Trade Center site-and of 21st-century cities in general-might be re-imagined and realized. Panelists were architect Michael Rotondi, FAIA, principal of RoTo Architects; architect Winka Dubbeldam, principal of Archi-Tectonics; artist Mel Chin whose work addresses issues of habitat devastation, restoration and sustaining biodiversity; artist Vito Acconci whose art explores architectural forms; and art dealer Max Protetch. Robert Ivy, FAIA, editor-in-chief of Architectural Record, moderated the symposium. 9. Transcript: The Future of the Skyscraper (File; Tue Nov 06 15:08:00 CST 2007) Description: November 9, 2001 For over a century, the skyscraper has been the quintessential symbol of American ingenuity and corporate power. The terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center have ignited debate about the role of skyscrapers in the urban landscape, as well as the long-term prospects for the building type. This symposium featured Leslie Robertson, FASCE, structural engineer for the World Trade Center; Paul Katz, AIA, designer of what will be the world's tallest building in Shanghai; Bruce Fowle, FAIA, designer of tall buildings in Jersey City and Times Square including the Cond é Nast Building; and Witold Rybczynski, professor of urbanism, University of Pennsylvania. Robert Campbell, FAIA, Pulitzer Prize-winning architecture critic with the Boston Globe, moderated. (File; Wed Jan 09 15:26:00 CST 2008) Description: The National Building Museum's 2003 Annual Report |
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