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The National Building Museum presents the Vincent Scully Prize: Mabel O. Wilson

National Building Museum 401 F Street NW, Washington, DC, United States

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

The National Building presents Murals That Matter: Activism Through Public Art

National Building Museum 401 F Street NW, Washington, DC, United States

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

Architecture & Design Film Festival: D.C.

National Building Museum 401 F Street NW, Washington, DC, United States

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

Spotlight on Design: Allied Works Architecture

National Building Museum 401 F Street NW, Washington, DC, United States

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.

$20

Architecture & Design Film Festival: D.C. Opening Night

National Building Museum 401 F Street NW, Washington, DC, United States

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.

$35

Spotlight on Design: ZGF Architects

National Building Museum 401 F Street NW, Washington, DC, United States

Discover how ZGF Architects has contributed to architecture and urban design in a way that honors civic responsibility and resource stewardship, responding to vital cultural, societal and environmental needs through a generation of work designed by Robert J. Frasca, FAIA, (1933-2018) and other ZGF leadership. Firm partners Jan Willemse, AIA, Kathy Berg, AIA, and Gene Sandoval, AIA, share projects

$20

Talk: Mapping Eviction

National Building Museum 401 F Street NW, Washington, DC, United States

Learn about Princeton University’s Eviction Lab, which has produced the first nationwide database of evictions, and discover how this powerful tool can help us gain a better understanding about the eviction crisis in America. Eviction Lab research specialists James Hendrickson and Lavar Edmonds present data on national eviction rates as well as for select metropolitan regions and discuss, with Evicted curator Sarah

Free

Evening with the Artist: Heather Sultz

National Building Museum 401 F Street NW, Washington, DC, United States

Explore site-specific movement with Heather Sultz and hear about her artistic process as the Museum’s Creative in Residence collaborating with local participants to create an original performance piece inspired by the Museum’s historic building. Have questions? Email Heather at hsultz@nbm.org.

Free

Talk and Book Signing: Movie Palaces of Washington, D.C. and Baltimore

National Building Museum 401 F Street NW, Washington, DC, United States

Recall the heyday of our local silver screens as Amy Davis, author of Flickering Treasures: Rediscovering Baltimore’s Forgotten Movie Theaters, and Robert K. Headley, co-author of Movie Theaters of Washington, D.C., discuss the downtown palaces and neighborhood movie houses in both cities. Theaters like the Ambassador in Baltimore and the DC Theater in D.C., were more than just venues

$20

Architecture & Design Film Festival: D.C. 2018

National Building Museum 401 F Street NW, Washington, DC, United States

The Architecture & Design Film Festival (ADFF) is the nation’s largest film festival devoted to the creative spirit that drives architecture in design. Join us for the inaugural festival in D.C. Over the course of three days, the festival screens films that explore the life and work of architects such as Rem Koolhaas and Bjarke

$135

Spotlight on Design: Michael Graves: Design for Life

National Building Museum 401 F Street NW, Washington, DC, United States

Learn about the life and work of Michael Graves (1934-2015), considered one of the most prominent and prolific designers and architects of the last half-century. Journalist Ian Volner conducted extensive interviews with the late architect as well as numerous conversations with his family, patrons, and colleagues. Volner shares stories about Graves's influential career as a champion of

$20

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Spotlight on Design: nArchitects and the Making of Carmel Place

National Building Museum 401 F Street NW, Washington, DC, United States

Learn how a 55-unit micro-studio mid-rise in New York City was built despite regulatory, site, and design challenges. Mimi Hoang, AIA, co-founding principal of AIA nArchitects, recipient of the 2017 American Institute of Architects Architecture Award for Carmel Place; Sarah Watson, deputy director, Citizens Housing & Planning Council, and Kirk Goodrich, Monadnock Development, share the story of Carmel

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