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Emma Filar
Director, Marketing & Communications
202.272.2448, ext. 3458
By Chase Rynd, Executive Director The Board of Trustees and staff of the National Building Museum are saddened to learn of the death of Vincent Scully at the age of 97. In an academic career spanning more than six decades, Vince influenced generations of architects,...
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WHAT Press Preview for Making Room: Housing for a Changing America WHO Chrysanthe Broikos, Curator, National Building Museum Sarah Watson, Deputy Director, Citizens Housing & Planning Council Lisa Blecker, Director of Marketing, Resource Furniture Pierluigi Colombo, Designer/Art Director, Clei Lisa Marsh Ryerson, President, AARP Foundation...
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The Life and Gardens of Beatrix Farrand presented with panel discussion with filmmaker WHAT View the first documentary about the pioneering work of landscape architect Beatrix Farrand (1872-1959), The Life and Gardens of Beatrix Farrand. Join six-time Emmy Award-winning documentary filmmaker and Yale Fellow Karyl Evans as she talks...
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WHAT A panel of experts discuss how Washington, D.C., is planning for the possibility of a 500-year storm, so named for a flood that has a 1-in-500 chance of happening in a single year and seen in Houston following Hurricane Harvey. How would D.C.’s infrastructure...
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WASHINGTON, D.C.—Architecture students from six local universities got a firsthand look at how creative design solutions can improve their community during the National Building Museum’s 2017 Interschool Design Competition. Armed with essential drafting tools, each team had just seven hours to conceptualize and design a...
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