Families invited to Grow Community on March 31 WASHINGTON, D.C.—The National Building Museum presents Growing Community, a family afternoon to highlight the intersection of design, the natural environment, and community building. In celebration of the National Cherry Blossom Festival®, the activities are set to take...
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In honor of Women’s History Month the National Building Museum looks back at the 1993 trunk show highlighting 33 architects and interior designers. Thirty-three steamer trunks stood on end within the Museum in 1993, each brought to life by an interior designer or architect — all from...
Read MoreAmber N. Wiley, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of American Studies and associate director of the Intergroup Relations program at Skidmore College. Her research is centered on the social aspects of design—architecture as a literal and figurative structure of power. She focuses on the ways...
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Oak Ridge, Tennessee; Hanford/Richland, Washington; and Los Alamos, New Mexico highlighted in new exhibition opening May 3 WASHINGTON, D.C.—On May 3, the National Building Museum presents Secret Cities: The Architecture and Planning of the Manhattan Project. This new exhibition explores the vast, highly classified effort...
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Celebrate Women’s History Month with three of D.C.’s most complex, large-scale projects—The Wharf, St. Elizabeths East Campus, and McMillan. Hilary Bertsch (Perkins Eastman), Maria Casarella (Cunningham Quill), and Emily Hotaling Eig (EHT Traceries, Inc.) join the Museum on March 28 to discuss these projects’ inspirations,...
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