Ages 21 and over. Join architects, designers, filmmakers, and design enthusiasts at an opening event that features a screening of Frank Gehry: Building Justice (2018). Enjoy food and drink for purchase, including a signature cocktail, and celebrate the power of architecture and design through film.
Hear Brad Cloepfil, founding principal of the multi-disciplinary firm Allied Works Architecture, discuss how the firm engages artists, builders, and thinkers in a collective pursuit of new architectural expression. He shares the firm’s current work, which includes the new National Veterans Memorial and Museum in Columbus, Ohio, the Clyfford Still Museum in Denver, Colorado.
Tour downtown Baltimore for fascinating stories and photography tips with photographer Amy Davis, author of Flickering Treasures: Rediscovering Baltimore’s Forgotten Movie Theaters. Explore the revival of the historic Hippodrome and Everyman theaters and ponder the fate of other grand picture palaces on the city's west side, the Stanley and Mayfair. Bring your smartphone or digital camera and
How do you know if you’re a villain? You think building on the sea floor or at the bottom of a volcano sounds good…really good. Celebrate the unreal real estate that classic spy villains call HQ. What goes into planning a place where evil plotters can freely plot? Innovative architect Chad Oppenheim of Oppenheim Architecture + Design
Celebrate the National Building Museum’s reopening as well as its 40th anniversary at the third annual Architecture and Design Film Festival, presented by the National Building Museum with the Revada Foundation of the Logan Family. Join the festival’s sponsors and other cineastes during three days of feature-length movies and film shorts that showcase social inclusion, explorations of
On Wednesday, June 24, the Museum presents a free online Spotlight on Design program, the newest addition to our high-profile lecture series featuring distinguished architects, landscape architects, and designers. This program focuses on the major transformation nearing completion at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, Washington, D.C.’s central library, designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and opened
The National Building Museum, in partnership with the P.A.I.N.T.S. Institute and the DowntownDC Business Improvement District (BID), is pleased to present Murals That Matter: Activism Through Public Art. Located on the Museum’s west lawn (5th Street NW, between F and G streets), the exhibition features D.C. street art created earlier this summer in response to social
Learn about the design, purpose, and meaning of the Gun Violence Memorial Project. The gun violence epidemic in America claims 100 lives every single day. Looking to create urgency and drive change, the Gun Violence Memorial Project, designed by MASS Design Group, features four houses built of 700 glass bricks, with each brick representing a victim
Learn about the design, purpose, and meaning of the Gun Violence Memorial Project. The gun violence epidemic in America claims 100 lives every single day. Looking to create urgency and drive change, the Gun Violence Memorial Project, designed by MASS Design Group, features four houses built of 700 glass bricks, with each brick representing a victim
Learn about efforts to tell the story of the border wall and other U.S.-Mexico border infrastructure. Sarah Leavitt, Ph.D, Interim Curator/Content Lead at the Capital Jewish Museum, and Marla Miller, Ph.D, Professor of History and Director of the Public History program at the University of Massachusetts Amherst track the ways in which museums and other public history platforms tell
Learn how empathy for the public’s engagement with memorials and park spaces informs the work of Philadelphia-based landscape architecture, urban design, and planning firm DAVID RUBIN Land Collective. Founding principal David A. Rubin, FASLA, FAAR, discusses the joys and challenges of navigating Washington, D.C.’s complex federal and local public space environment, all while steadfastly emphasizing and advocating for
Celebrate the ground-breaking work and accomplishments of Mabel O. Wilson, the Nancy and George E. Rupp Professor of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation at Columbia University. Wilson is the 23rd recipient of the National Building Museum's annual Vincent Scully Prize. An architect, scholar, researcher, artist, writer, and curator, Wilson's work focuses on Black culture and history and the ways
