National Building Museum

• Architecture & Design Film Festival Coming to DC in 2018

  I hope everyone had a good Christmas and is having a wonderful holiday season. I am happy to write about this gift coming next year read more >

  December 26, 2017

• Event: Considering Modernist Landscapes – May 15

  Springtime has finally hit DC. The cherry blossoms have come and gone and now the azaleas are in full swing. It is a good time read more >

  April 19, 2017

• Event: A Portrait of Le Corbusier

  Le Corbusier was designing super-efficient housing seen in today’s trend of micro-apartments, but 60 years ago. This is Unite d’Habitation in Nantes-Reze. Photo by Anthony read more >

  December 15, 2014

• Wright Weekend at the National Building Museum

  If you are looking for architecture-related activities to do before traveling for Thanksgiving, take a look at the schedule for the National Building Museum’s Wright read more >

  November 14, 2012

• Preserving DC’s MCM Architecture

  Interested in what is happening in efforts to preserve Washignton’s mid-century modern architecture? If you are, pick up tickets for an Oct. 4 read more >

  September 18, 2012

• Architecture Golf, Kevin Roche at Building Museum

  Looking for a place to beat the heat? Head to the National Building Museum for some architectural mini-golf and an exhibit on the work of Kevin read more >

  July 4, 2012

• America’s World’s Fairs: Introducing Modernism to the Masses

  U.S. Government Building, Century of Progress Exhibition, Chicago 1933-34. Photo by Kauffman & Fabry, Co. Collection of Jim Sweeney.

  As the nation was gripped with the read more >

  September 29, 2010

• National Building Museum Event to Explore ‘Hated’ Brutalism

  I.M. Pei's 1967 library in Columbus, Indiana, is a brick, boxy structure with exposed concrete ceiling.
  Brutalism. Do you love it or hate it? Derived from read more >

  June 23, 2010