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Past Exhibitions by Topic
The National Building Museum has hosted a wide variety of exhibitions about the built environment since it was created by an act of Congress in 1980. Following is a list of past exhibitions sorted by topic, from the explorations of the Museum's historic Pension Building home in the 1980s through the issue-oriented exhibitions on affordable housing and green design to the NBM's most recent shows. Since our exhibitions often focus on a combination of subjects, many of them are listed here more than once. Explore the rich history of exhibitions at the National Building Museum!
Topics
NBM Specific
NBM Collection-Based
- Cityscapes Revealed: Highlights from the Collection (December 3, 2005 – Long term)
- The Turner City Collection: Rendering a Century of Building (May 4 – November 3, 2002)
- Main Street Five-and-Dimes: The Architectural Legacy of the S. H. Kress & Co. Stores (traveling exhibition; on view at Museum between venues) (November 1998 – Winter 2001)
- Main Street Five-and-Dimes: The Architectural Heritage of the S. H. Kress & Co. Stores (May 9, 1997 – March 15, 1998)
- Building the Ballyhoo: Architectural Photography by the Wurts Brothers Company (February 16 – August 18, 1996)
- Building a Landmark: The National Building Museum's Historic Home (Fall 1991 – September 3, 2001)
- The Old Pension Building (June 1988 – February 1990)
- An Architectural Wonder: The U.S. Pension Building (October 1985 – July 1987)
NBM Youth Education / For Kids
- Investigating Where We Live: Anacostia (August 19, 2006 – November 26, 2006)
- Building Zone (April 1, 2006 – Long term)
- Investigating Where We Live 2005 (August 13, 2005 – February 19, 2006)
- Kids' View of the City 2005 (May 7 – July 16, 2005)
- Origami as Architecture (November 6, 2004 – April 10, 2005)
- Five Friends from Japan: Children in Japan Today (November 4, 2004 – February 13, 2005)
- Kids View of the City (May 6 – July 6, 2003)
- Creative Works in the City (June 6 – July 7, 2002)
- Investigating Where We Live (August 1 – September 1, 2000)
- Investigating Where We Live (August 1 – September 1, 1999)
- CityVision: Student Projects from the National Building Museum (February 28 – March 20, 1997)
NBM Honor Award Related
- The Architecture of Reassurance: Designing Disney Theme Parks (March 17 – August 5, 2001)
- The Business of Innovation: Bechtel's First Century (June 5, 1998 – January 4, 1999)
- The Art of Architecture: The Pritzker Architecture Prize (March 1993 – April 1993)
- Making it Work: Pittsburgh Defines a City (April 1992 – September 1992)
- Ideal Places: Rockefeller Visions for America (March 1991 – September 1991)
- Building by Design: Architecture at IBM (March 1990 – October 1990)
- In Pursuit of Excellence: The Federal Judiciary Office Building Competition (March 1989 – August 1989)
- James Wilson Rouse: Urban Visionary (March 1988 – November 1988)
- Good Design in the Community: Columbus, Indiana (October 1986 – January 1987)
Issue Oriented
Affordable Housing
- Affordable Housing: Designing an American Asset (February 28 – August 8, 2004)
- Stories of Home: Photographs by Bill Bamberger (December 4, 2003 – March 7, 2004)
- Sheltered by Design (June 20, 1997 – January 1998)
- Fragile Dwelling: Photographs of Homeless Communities by Margaret Morton (June 15 – November 8, 1995)
NBM/ "Building in the Aftermath"
- New/er Orleans—A Shared Space (April 29, 2006 – July 30, 2006)
- Pentagon Memorial Competition – Stage One Entry Display (October 30 – November 9, 2003)
- A New World Trade Center: Design Proposals (April 6 – June 10, 2002)
- Twin Towers Remembered: Photographs by Camilo José Vergara (November 10, 2001 – March 10, 2002)
- "We Will Be Back": Oklahoma City Rebuilds (November 17, 1995 – May 5, 1996)
Green Architecture & Design
- The Green House: New Directions in Sustainable Architecture and Design (May 20, 2006 – June 3, 2007)
- Samuel Mockbee and the Rural Studio: Community Architecture (May 22 – September 6, 2004)
- Big & Green: Toward Sustainable Architecture in the 21st Century (January 17 – June 22, 2003)
- Ten Shades of Green (December 2, 2000 – February 14, 2001)
Smart Growth
- Metropolitan Perspectives: Smart Growth and Choices for Change (October 11, 2000 – March 4, 2001)
- Reinvigorating Cities: Smart Growth and Choices for Change (April 19 – September 6, 2000)
- Reimagining the Suburbs: Smart Growth and Choices for Change (October 22, 1999 – March 26, 2000)
- Where Do We Go From Here: Smart Growth and Choices for Change (April 20 – September 7, 1999)
Architects & their work
Architect 'Retrospectives' - Contemporary
- Samuel Mockbee and the Rural Studio: Community Architecture (May 22 – September 6, 2004)
- Zaha Hadid Laboratory (August 17 ─ November 17, 2002)
- Cesar Pelli: Connections (September 12, 2001 – April 28, 2002)
- Hugh Newell Jacobsen, Architect: A Retrospective (January 30 – August 15, 1999)
- Women of Design (January 1993 – May 1993)
Architect 'Retrospectives' - Historical
- Marcel Breuer: Design and Architecture (November 3, 2007 - February 17, 2008)
- From Arts and Crafts to Modern Design: The Architecture of William L. Price (August 18, 2001 – March 24, 2002)
- The Architecture of R.M. Schindler (June 29 – October 14, 2001)
- Viollet-le-Duc: Architect, Artist, Master of Historic Preservation (October 1988 – December 1988)
- Thomas Tefft: American Architecture in Transition, 1845-1860 (August 1988 – October 1988)
Frank Lloyd Wright
- Prairie Skyscraper: Frank Lloyd Wright's Price Tower (June 17, 2006 – September 17, 2006)
- Frank Lloyd Wright: Windows of the Darwin D. Martin House (February 17 – August 20, 2000)
- Three Buildings by Frank Lloyd Wright: American Spirit Alive in Japan (June 21, 1996 – February 18, 1997)
DC AIA
- Rowhouse Redux: Washington Architects Renew City Living (November 14, 2003 – January 18, 2004)
- Monuments and Memory: Washington D.C. Architects Explore the Language of Monuments (September 29, 2001 – February 3, 2002)
- Visions for a New Century: Washington Architects Share Their Visions for the First Century of the New Millennium (June 11 – October 3, 1999)
- Capital Visions: Architects Revisit L'Enfant, New Plans for the Millennium (May 1 – October 26, 1997)
- Visions of Home: Architects' Explorations of Dwelling and Community (October 6, 1994 – March 26, 1995)
- Visions/Revisions: The Second DC/AIA Biennial Exhibition (October 1992 – January 1993)
- Give Us Your Best: An Exhibition of Washington Architects' Work (October 1990 – December 1990)
Schools of Architecture
- A Building Tradition: The Work of the Prince's School of Traditional Arts (November 5, 2005 – January 8, 2006)
- Modeled Space/Space Modeled (January 31 – March 31, 2002)
- Architects in the Making: Perspectives From Four Schools (May 1993 – June 1993)
- Architects in the Making: Perspectives From Four Schools (April 1992 – May 1992)
- Architects in the Making: Visions and Reality (January 1991 – February 1991)
- Yale University School of Architecture Design Studios (December 1990 – January 1991)
- Architecture in Academia: An Exhibition of Student Work (November 1989 – March 1990)
Design Process
Drawings/Models/Tools
- David Macaulay: The Art of Drawing Architecture (June 23, 2007 - May 4, 2008)
- A Building Tradition: The Work of the Prince's School of Traditional Arts (November 5, 2005 – January 8, 2006)
- Tools of the Imagination (March 5 – October 10, 2005)
- Envisioning Architecture: Drawings from The Museum of Modern Art, New York (March 20 – June 20, 2004)
- Modeled Space/Space Modeled (January 31 – March 31, 2002)
- Drawing for the Future: Design Drawings for the 1939 New York World's Fair (October 13, 2000 – January 14, 2001)
- Scale: The Architectural League's Young Architects Forum 1999 (January 14 – April 16, 2000)
- Hugh Ferriss: Metropolis (February 1987 – May 1987)
Design Competitions
- Reinventing the Globe: A Shakespearean Theater for the 21st Century (January 13, 2007 - October 8, 2007)
- Pentagon Memorial Competition – Stage One Entry Display (October 30 – November 9, 2003)
- A New World Trade Center: Design Proposals (April 6 – June 10, 2002)
- Completing the Federal Triangle: The Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center (April 19 – September 27, 1998)
- An American Embassy in Berlin (November 1996 – March 1997)
- Engineering Excellence Awards Competition (March 1990 – April 1990)
- Competitions x 3 (traveling version of the exhibition below) (March 1990 – February 1991)
- Displays of Three Design Competitions for Memorials to be Built in Washington, D.C.: Korean War Veterans Memorial, National Peace Garden, and Women in Military Service for America Memorial (May 1989 – January 1990)
- The Experimental Tradition: Twenty-Five Years of American Architectural Competitions, 1960-1985 (April 1989 – July 1989)
- In Pursuit of Excellence: The Federal Judiciary Office Building Competition (March 1989 – August 1989)
Engineering/Construction/Infrastructure
Engineering
- Me, Myself and Infrastructure: Private Lives and Public Works in America (October 4, 2002 ─ February 16, 2003)
- Breaking Through: The Creative Engineer (traveling exhibition) (February 1999 – December 2001)
- The Business of Innovation: Bechtel's First Century (June 5, 1998 – January 4, 1999)
- Breaking Through: The Creative Engineer (February 26 – November 8, 1998)
- Engineering Excellence Awards Competition (March 1990 – April 1990)
- To Build a Bridge (Reinstallation of "Anatomy of a Bridge") (September 1990 – December 1993)
- Built for the People of the United States of America: Fifty Years of TVA Architecture (March 1986 – September 1986)
- Anatomy of a Bridge: Seven Steps in Constructing the Brooklyn Bridge (October 1985 – May 1986)
Materials
- Liquid Stone: New Architecture in Concrete (June 19, 2005 – January 29, 2006)
- Symphony in Steel: Ironworkers and the Walt Disney Concert Hall (January 31 – November 28, 2004)
- Masonry Variations (October 18, 2003 – April 4, 2004)
- WOOD: An American Tradition (September 9, 2000 – April 22, 2001)
- Titanium! (May 20 – July 18, 1999)
- Mondo Materialis (April 1991 – September 1991)
- Samuel Yellin (March 1989 – July 1989)
- Sheet Metal Craftsmanship: Progress in Building (January 1988 – October 1988)
- Ornamental Architecture Reborn: A New Terra Cotta Vocabulary (June 1986 – November 1986)
- America's Master Metalworker: Samuel B. Yellin, 1885-1940 (October 1985 – July 1987)
Transportation Infrastructure
- On Track: Transit and the American City (January 26 – October 29, 2002)
- See the U.S.A.: Automobile Travel and the American Landscape (November 19, 1999 – July 9, 2000)
- Lying Lightly on the Land: Building America's National Park Roads and Parkways (June 6, 1997 – January 11, 1998)
- The Blue Ridge Parkway (October 1990 – August 1991)
HABS/HAER: Historic American Buildings Survey and Historic American Engineering Record
- Monuments, Mills, and Missile Sites: Thirty Years of the Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) (October 26, 2000 – May 20, 2001)
- Making It in the Birmingham District (December 15, 1994 – June 4, 1995)
- Held in Common: Historic Architecture in America's National Parks (December 1991 – February 1992)
- For the Record: How the Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record Documents America's Heritage (December 1989 – February 1990)
- Documenting Our Heritage: The Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record, 1988 Projects (December 1988 – February 1989)
Planning
Urban Planning
- Civitas: Traditional Urbanism in Contemporary Practice (November 5, 2005 – January 8, 2006)
- OPEN: New Designs for Public Space (January 15 – May 15, 2005)
- D.C. Builds: The Anacostia Waterfront (January 17 – June 6, 2004)
- The Architecture of Reassurance: Designing Disney Theme Parks (March 17 – August 5, 2001)
- Building Culture Downtown: New Ways of Revitalizing the American City (May 2 – January 3, 1999)
- An Urban Experiment in Central Berlin: Planning Potsdamer Platz (March 24 – September 19, 1999)
- City Satire: The Cartoons of Roger K. Lewis (October 15, 1998 – February 28, 1999)
- Capital Visions: Architects Revisit L'Enfant, New Plans for the Millennium (May 1 – October 26, 1997)
- Choosing Futures: Planning America's Communities (May 1992 – August 1992)
- Urban Land Institute Awards for Excellence (November 1991 – March 1992)
Smart Growth
- Metropolitan Perspectives: Smart Growth and Choices for Change (October 11, 2000 – March 4, 2001)
- Reinvigorating Cities: Smart Growth and Choices for Change (April 19 – September 6, 2000)
- Reimagining the Suburbs: Smart Growth and Choices for Change (October 22, 1999 – March 26, 2000)
- Where Do We Go From Here: Smart Growth and Choices for Change (April 20 – September 7, 1999)
Landscape Architecture
Landscape Architecture
- A Genius for Place: American Landscapes of the Country Place Era (October 6, 2001 – February 18, 2002)
- Nature Constructed/Nature Revealed: Eco-Revelatory Design (April 27 – October 22, 2000)
- Personal Edens: The Gardens and Film Sets of Florence Yoch (February 12 – April 4, 1999)
Monuments & Memorials
- Pentagon Memorial Competition – Stage One Entry Display (October 30 – November 9, 2003)
- A New World Trade Center: Design Proposals (April 6 – June 10, 2002)
- Monuments and Memory: Washington D.C. Architects Explore the Language of Monuments (September 29, 2001 – February 3, 2002)
- Planning Washington's Monumental Core: L'Enfant to Legacy (November 24, 1997 – June 30, 1998)
- The Making of a Monument: The National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial, Part II (May 1990 – September 1990)
- The Making of a Monument: The National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial, Part I (October 1989 – February 1990)
- Displays of Three Design Competitions for Memorials to be Built in Washington, D.C.: Korean War Veterans Memorial, National Peace Garden, and Women in Military Service for America Memorial (May 1989 – January 1990)
Architectural History
Social History & our Built World
- Jewish Washington: Scrapbook of an American Community (June 24, 2005 – July 4, 2006)
- Washington: Symbol and City (October 9, 2004 – Long-term)
- Do It Yourself: Home Improvement in 20th-Century America (October 17, 2002 ─ August 10, 2003)
- Building America online (virtual exhibition) (July 14, 2002 [Permanent])
- On Track: Transit and the American City (January 26 – October 29, 2002)
- The Architecture of Reassurance: Designing Disney Theme Parks (March 17 – August 5, 2001)
- On the Job: Design and the American Office (November 18, 2000 – August 19, 2001)
- See the U.S.A.: Automobile Travel and the American Landscape (November 19, 1999 – July 9, 2000)
- The Corner Store (September 23, 1999 – August 6, 2000)
- Stay Cool! Air Conditioning America (May 1, 1999 – January 2, 2000)
- Main Street Five-and-Dimes: The Architectural Heritage of the S. H. Kress & Co. Stores (May 9, 1997 – March 15, 1998)
- Between Fences (May 31, 1996 – January 5, 1997)
- World War II and the American Dream: How Wartime Building Changed a Nation (November 11, 1994 – December 31, 1995)
- Barn Again! (March 12 – September 11, 1994)
Architectural History
- Reinventing the Globe: A Shakespearean Theater for the 21st Century (January 13, 2007 - October 8, 2007)
- Prairie Skyscraper: Frank Lloyd Wright's Price Tower (June 17, 2006 – September 17, 2006)
- From Arts and Crafts to Modern Design: The Architecture of William L. Price (August 18, 2001 – March 24, 2002)
- Windshield: Richard Neutra's House for the John Nicholas Brown Family (May 25 – August 18, 2002)
- The Architecture of R.M. Schindler (June 29 – October 14, 2001)
- The White House in Miniature (March 29 – September 17, 2000)
- Thomas Tefft: American Architecture in Transition, 1845-1860 (August 1988 – October 1988)
- Liberty: The French-American Statue in Art and History (November 1987 – February 1988)
- Building a National Image: Architectural Drawings for the American Democracy, 1789-1912 (October 1985 – February 1986)
Preservation
- Saving Mount Vernon: The Birth of Preservation in America (February 15 – September 21, 2003)
- The Corner Store (September 23, 1999 – August 6, 2000)
- Forgotten Gateway: The Abandoned Buildings of Ellis Island (November 12, 1998 – May 2, 1999)
- Viollet-le-Duc: Architect, Artist, Master of Historic Preservation (October 1988 – December 1988)
- Twenty Years of Restoration in Venice, 1966-1986 (October 1987 – January 1988)
HABS/HAER: Historic American Buildings Survey and Historic American Engineering Record
- Monuments, Mills, and Missile Sites: Thirty Years of the Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) (October 26, 2000 – May 20, 2001)
- Making It in the Birmingham District (December 15, 1994 – June 4, 1995)
- Held in Common: Historic Architecture in America's National Parks (December 1991 – February 1992)
- For the Record: How the Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record Documents America's Heritage (December 1989 – February 1990)
- Documenting Our Heritage: The Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record, 1988 Projects (December 1988 – February 1989)
Public-funded Architecture (not infrastructure)
Government Services Administration (sponsored)
- Of Our Time: 2002 GSA Design Awards (March 27 – October 19, 2003)
- Federal Design Now! The 2000 GSA Design Awards (March 29 – July 8, 2001)
- Continuing the Legacy: The 1998 GSA Design Awards (March 25 – September 5, 1999)
- Completing the Federal Triangle: The Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center (April 19 – September 27, 1998)
- Building for the People of the United States of America: The GSA 1996 Design Awards (March 20 – May 4, 1997)
- Building a Federal Legacy: The 1994 General Services Administration Design Awards (March 10 – April 9, 1995)
- Heritage to Build/Heritage to Keep: 1990 General Services Administration Design Awards (November 1990 – August 1991)
- The Making of a Monument: The National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial, Part II (May 1990 – September 1990)
- The Making of a Monument: The National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial, Part I (October 1989 – February 1990)
- In Pursuit of Excellence: The Federal Judiciary Office Building Competition (March 1989 – August 1989)
Government & Design
- World War II and the American Dream: How Wartime Building Changed a Nation (November 11, 1994 – December 31, 1995)
- From Mars to Main Street: America Designs, 1965-1990 (November 1992 – February 1994)
Architecture & National Identity
- The Dome: Symbol of American Democracy (October 20, 1995 – April 14, 1996)
- Liberty: The French-American Statue in Art and History (November 1987 – February 1988)
- Building a National Image: Architectural Drawings for the American Democracy, 1789-1912 (October 1985 – February 1986)
Washington, D.C. related
Washington, D.C.
- Jewish Washington: Scrapbook of an American Community (June 24, 2005 – July 4, 2006)
- Washington: Symbol and City (October 9, 2004 – Long-term)
- D.C. Builds: The Anacostia Waterfront (January 17 – June 6, 2004)
- Pentagon Memorial Competition – Stage One Entry Display (October 30 – November 9, 2003)
- City Satire: The Cartoons of Roger K. Lewis (October 15, 1998 – February 28, 1999)
- Completing the Federal Triangle: The Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center (April 19 – September 27, 1998)
- Planning Washington's Monumental Core: L'Enfant to Legacy (November 24, 1997 – June 30, 1998)
- Views of Washington: Perspective Drawings by Mori Shizume (February 14 – May 1997)
- The Man Who Built Washington: John McShain and the American Construction Industry (February 14 – April 20, 1997)
- Washington: Symbol and City (June 1991 – September 3, 2001)
- Four Washington Banks (May 1990 – September 1990)
- Displays of Three Design Competitions for Memorials to be Built in Washington, D.C.: Korean War Veterans Memorial, National Peace Garden, and Women in Military Service for America Memorial (May 1989 – January 1990)
- In Pursuit of Excellence: The Federal Judiciary Office Building Competition (March 1989 – August 1989)
- Best Addresses: A Century of Washington's Distinguished Apartment Houses (September 1988 – April 1989)
DC AIA
- Rowhouse Redux: Washington Architects Renew City Living (November 14, 2003 – January 18, 2004)
- Monuments and Memory: Washington D.C. Architects Explore the Language of Monuments (September 29, 2001 – February 3, 2002)
- Visions for a New Century: Washington Architects Share Their Visions for the First Century of the New Millennium (June 11 – October 3, 1999)
- Capital Visions: Architects Revisit L'Enfant, New Plans for the Millennium (May 1 – October 26, 1997)
- Visions of Home: Architects' Explorations of Dwelling and Community (October 6, 1994 – March 26, 1995)
- Visions/Revisions: The Second DC/AIA Biennial Exhibition (October 1992 – January 1993)
- Give Us Your Best: An Exhibition of Washington Architects' Work (October 1990 – December 1990)
Place Specific (not Washington, D.C.)
International
- Lasting Foundations: The Art of Architecture in Africa (October 6, 2007 - January 13, 2008)
- Five Friends from Japan: Children in Japan Today (November 4, 2004 – February 13, 2005)
- Three Buildings by Frank Lloyd Wright: American Spirit Alive in Japan (June 21, 1996 – February 18, 1997)
- Saudi Arabian Art and Sport Architecture (June 18 – July 4, 1994)
- Viollet-le-Duc: Architect, Artist, Master of Historic Preservation (October 1988 – December 1988)
- Twenty Years of Restoration in Venice, 1966-1986 (October 1987 – January 1988)
Berlin
- An Urban Experiment in Central Berlin: Planning Potsdamer Platz (March 24 – September 19, 1999)
- An American Embassy in Berlin (November 15, 1996 – March 23, 1997)
- Interface Berlin: Images of a City (May 1992 – July 1992)
Specific City/Place Focused (all US)
- New/er Orleans—A Shared Space (April 29, 2006 – July 30, 2006)
- Samuel Mockbee and the Rural Studio: Community Architecture (May 22 – September 6, 2004)
- Drawing for the Future: Design Drawings for the 1939 New York World's Fair (October 13, 2000 – January 14, 2001)
- The Corner Store (Galveston, TX) (September 23, 1999 – August 6, 2000)
- Forgotten Gateway: The Abandoned Buildings of Ellis Island (November 12, 1998 – May 2, 1999)
- El Nuevo Mundo: The Landscape of Latino Los Angeles (December 3, 1998 – March 28, 1999)
- Civics Lessons: Recent New York Public Architecture (December 5, 1997 – May 11, 1998)
- "We Will Be Back": Oklahoma City Rebuilds (November 17, 1995 – May 5, 1996)
- Making It in the Birmingham District (December 15, 1994 – June 4, 1995)
- The Art of Building in North Carolina (May 10 – November 13, 1994)
- Making it Work: Pittsburgh Defines a City (April 1992 – September 1992)
- Good Design in the Community: Columbus, Indiana (October 1986 – January 1987)
Building Typology
Building Type
- Big & Green: Toward Sustainable Architecture in the 21st Century (January 17 – June 22, 2003)
- On the Job: Design and the American Office (November 18, 2000 – August 19, 2001)
- The Corner Store (September 23, 1999 – August 6, 2000)
- Ticket to Paradise (May 4 – October 15, 1995)
- Barn Again! (March 12 – September 11, 1994)
- Money Matters: A Critical Look at Bank Architecture (May 1990 – September 1990)
Specific Structure
- Reinventing the Globe: A Shakespearean Theater for the 21st Century (January 13 - October 8, 2007)
- Prairie Skyscraper: Frank Lloyd Wright's Price Tower (June 17 – September 17, 2006)
- Symphony in Steel: Ironworkers and the Walt Disney Concert Hall (January 31 – November 28, 2004)
- Saving Mount Vernon: The Birth of Preservation in America (February 15 – September 21, 2003)
- Windshield: Richard Neutra's House for the John Nicholas Brown Family (May 25 – August 18, 2002)
- The Architecture of Reassurance: Designing Disney Theme Parks (March 17 – August 5, 2001)
- The White House in Miniature (March 29 – September 17, 2000)
- Frank Lloyd Wright: Windows of the Darwin D. Martin House (February 2000 - August 2000)
- Completing the Federal Triangle: The Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center (April 1998 - September 1998)
- An American Embassy in Berlin (November 1996 - March 1997)
- Building a Landmark: The National Building Museum's Historic Home (Fall 1991 – September 3, 2001)
- The Blue Ridge Parkway (October 1990 - August 1991)
- The Making of a Monument: The National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial, Part II (May 1990 - September 1990)
- The Making of a Monument: The National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial, Part I (October 1989 - February 1990)
- In Pursuit of Excellence: The Federal Judiciary Office Building Competition (March 1989 - August 1989)
- Liberty: The French-American Statue in Art and History (November 1987 - February 1988)
- Anatomy of a Bridge: Seven Steps in Constructing the Brooklyn Bridge (October 1985 - May 1986)
Building Feature
- Up, Down, Across: Elevators, Escalators, and Moving Sidewalks (September 12, 2003 – April 18, 2004)
- Stay Cool! Air Conditioning America (May 1, 1999 – January 2, 2000)
- Between Fences (May 31, 1996 – January 5, 1997)
- The Dome: Symbol of American Democracy (October 20, 1995 – April 14, 1996)
House & Home
Home/Housing
- The Green House: New Directions in Sustainable Architecture and Design (May 20, 2006 – June 3, 2007)
- Rowhouse Redux: Washington Architects Renew City Living (November 14, 2003 – January 18, 2004)
- Saving Mount Vernon: The Birth of Preservation in America (February 15 – September 21, 2003)
- Do It Yourself: Home Improvement in 20th-Century America (October 17, 2002 ─ August 10, 2003)
- The White House in Miniature (March 29 – September 17, 2000)
- Visions of Home: Architects' Explorations of Dwelling and Community (October 6, 1994 – March 26, 1995)
- La Casa de Todos Nosotros (A House For Us All) (July 1993 – January 1994)
- Best Addresses: A Century of Washington's Distinguished Apartment Houses (September 1988 – April 1989)
Affordable Housing
- Affordable Housing: Designing an American Asset (February 28 – August 8, 2004)
- Stories of Home: Photographs by Bill Bamberger (December 4, 2003 – March 7, 2004)
- Sheltered by Design (June 20, 1997 – January 1998)
- Fragile Dwelling: Photographs of Homeless Communities by Margaret Morton (June 15 – November 8, 1995)
Windows
- Picture This: Windows on the American Home (March 29 – August 11, 2003)
- Windshield: Richard Neutra's House for the John Nicholas Brown Family (May 25 – August 18, 2002)
- Frank Lloyd Wright: Windows of the Darwin D. Martin House (February 17 – August 20, 2000)
- Windows Through Time: American Windows From the 1630s to the 1930s (November 1990 – July 1991)
- American Decorative Window Glass, 1860-1890: The Home as a Heaven Below (December 1986 – July 1987)
Furniture/Decorative Arts
- The Pull of Beauty (June 27 – August 11, 1996)
- Chairmania (November 20, 1995 – January 14, 1996)
Photography/Art
Architectural Photography
- Julius Shulman, Modernity and the Metropolis (April 1, 2006 – July 30, 2006)
- Building Images: Seventy Years of Photography at Hedrich Blessing (April 30 – July 27, 2003)
- Building the Ballyhoo: Architectural Photography by the Wurts Brothers Company (February 16 – August 18, 1996)
- A Recent View of Architecture: Photographs by Paul Warchol (February 16 – April 14, 1996)
Photography & Social Commentary
- Stories of Home: Photographs by Bill Bamberger (December 4, 2003 – March 7, 2004)
- El Nuevo Mundo: The Landscape of Latino Los Angeles (December 3, 1998 – March 28, 1999)
- Forgotten Gateway: The Abandoned Buildings of Ellis Island (November 12, 1998 – May 2, 1999)
- The New American Ghetto: Photographs by Camilo José Vergara (January 26 – May 5, 1996)
- Fragile Dwelling: Photographs of Homeless Communities by Margaret Morton (June 15 – November 8, 1995)
Tools as Art
- Tools as Art VI: Instruments of Change (September 16, 2000 – February 9, 2004)
- Tools as Art V: Fantasy at Work (June 30, 1999 – January 9, 2000)
- Tools as Art IV: Material Illusions (June 26, 1998 – May 16, 1999)
- Tools as Art III: All Saws (October 31, 1997 – April 19, 1998)
- Tools as Art II: Exploring Metaphor (April 11 – September 28, 1997)
- Tools as Art: The Hechinger Collection (September 1989 – March 1990)
Art
- David Macaulay: The Art of Drawing Architecture (June 23, 2007 - May 4, 2008)
- Windows on Work: Building America from the Collections of the Washington Print Club (April 17 – August 11, 2002)
- "Go Out Into the Street": Views of the City from the Washington Print Club (November 21, 1996 – March 9, 1997)
- Architectural Watercolors by Lauretta Vinciarelli (September 13 – November 10, 1996)
Single-Company Focused
- The Turner City Collection: Rendering a Century of Building (May 4 – November 3, 2002)
- The Architecture of Reassurance: Designing Disney Theme Parks (March 17 – August 5, 2001)
- The Business of Innovation: Bechtel's First Century (June 5, 1998 – January 4, 1999)
- Main Street Five-and-Dimes: The Architectural Heritage of the S. H. Kress & Co. Stores (May 9, 1997 – March 15, 1998)
- Building the Ballyhoo: Architectural Photography by the Wurts Brothers Company (February 16 – August 18, 1996)
- Building by Design: Architecture at IBM (March 1990 – October 1990)
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