Past Program Series
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Bachelors, Secretaries, and Spies: Mid-century Style in American FilmExplore the treatment of modernism on the silver screen in this three-part film series. |
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Big & GreenThe Big & Green lecture series complements the exhibition, Big & Green: Toward Sustainable Architecture in the 21st Century. The purpose of the series is to present a range of projects in the design disciplines, and throughout the world, to show what can be accomplished through sustainable design. The series brings architects, engineers, landscape architects, developers, and educators to the Museum to discuss how large building and landscape projects can be achieved through the use of sustainable design principles. |
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Building in the AftermathOriginally created in November 2001, in response to the terrorist attacks of September 11th, this lecture series explores the challenges of rebuilding and the implications for architecture, engineering, preservation, and urbanism in the wake of 9/11 and Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. |
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Community in the AftermathThe Alternative Housing Pilot Program (AHPP), funded by FEMA, is a grant competition to develop more useful, readily available, and culturally appropriate post-disaster housing for Hurricane Katrina-ravaged areas. Community in the Aftermath is a three-year series that will explore the AHPP's objectives and follow the progress of the grant recipients. |
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Film Series: Hollywood ModernThe National Building Museum is proud to partner with the American Film Institute Silver Theatre and Cultural Center to present a film series associated with the exhibition Designing Tomorrow: America’s World’s Fairs of the 1930s. |
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GreenovationWith exhibitors like Amicus Green Building Center, the American Society of Landscape Architects, and the U.S. Department of Energy, plus seminars on “Dream Green Kitchens,” “Stylish and Sustainable Residential Interiors,” and “Saving Green by Going Green,” Greenovation will have do-it-yourselfers greening it in no time. At 30 display booths visitors can interact with experts, watch demonstrations, sample green products, and collect information about green home renovation. Free, drop-in seminars with nationally-recognized experts will equip participants to go home and go green. This program augments the exhibition Greenhouse: New Directions in Sustainable Architecture and Design on view through June 3, 2007. |
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Guys, Guns & Garages Film SeriesAs a complement to the House of Cars exhibition, the Museum explores the parking garage as a location in action films and thrillers of the 1970s, as well as a space of unsettling encounters in contemporary short films and performance. |
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Reel Estate: The American Home on FilmThe National Building Museum is proud to partner with the American Film Institute (AFI) Silver Theatre and Cultural Center to present a film series associated with the Museum’s exhibition House & Home. Reel Estate: The American Home on Film presents a wide-ranging series of films focusing on the American home. |
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Sustainable CommunitiesSponsored by United Technologies, "Sustainable Communities," a year-long lecture series, expands on the themes presented in "Green Community" and examines the past, present, and future of sustainable communities. |
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Things to Come: the City Imagined on FilmThe National Building Museum is proud to partner with the American Film Institute (AFI) Silver Theatre and Cultural Center to present a film series associated with the Museum’s exhibition Unbuilt Washington. The City Imagined screens ten films that feature striking alternative visions of urban life.
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