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News ReleasesNews Releases | Media Advisories | Fact Sheets
National Building Museum Gift Shop Receives 2008 Best of Washington AwardSeptember 23, 2008National Building Museum Gift Shop has been selected for the 2008 Best of Washington Award in the Gift Shops category by the U.S. Local Business Association (USLBA).
Green Community: News ReleaseSeptember 15, 2008Green Community is the first major exhibition in the United States to explore the complex process of creating and sustaining healthy communities. Beyond bamboo floors and fluorescent light bulbs, Green Community looks at how communities large and small are changing their global impact.
2008 Scully Prize Stern: News ReleaseAugust 22, 2008Tenth Anniversary Gala Celebration to be held on November 12, 2008; Stern to deliver original lecture on November 13, 2008.
WUSA9 Live at the National Building MuseumJune 17, 2008Local CBS affiliate, WUSA9 will film live at the National Building Museum on Wednesday, June 18.
2008 Honor Award The Associated General Contractors of America: News ReleaseMay 28, 2008The National Building Museum awards its 22nd Honor Award to the Associated General Contractors of America.
DAP Receives 2008 Excellence in Programming Award from AAMApril 27, 2008The National Building Museum is very proud to announce that its “Design Apprenticeship Program" (DAP) has been awarded the 2008 Excellence in Programming Award, a national competition given by the American Association of Museum’s Committee on Education. This award recognizes exemplary creativity and innovation in museum educational programming.
Shigeru Ban: Paper House and the Architecture of Disaster Relief: News ReleaseApril 24, 2008Countries around the world face unprecedented challenges to preserve, restore -- and where necessary -- rebuild after destruction from natural disasters. What are architects, planners, and engineers doing to protect people against the devastation of natural disasters such as hurricanes, tsunamis, tornadoes, fires, and earthquakes? A growing number are exploring innovative humanitarian designs for people displaced by natural disasters or other emergencies.
Green Community: Earth Day News ReleaseApril 10, 2008The public will have a chance to step back and see their environmental impact and efforts as part of a greater community – be it geographic, professional, or demographic – this fall when the National Building Museum opens Green Community on October 23, 2008. The first-ever exhibition of its kind will examine the history of environmentally sustainable planning and design, and explore innovative contemporary and future projects from around the world.
2008 National Cherry Blossom Festival: News ReleaseMarch 6, 2008The National Cherry Blossom Festival (NCBF) comes alive to much fanfare on Saturday, March 29, 2008, at the National Building Museum (NBM) with the NCBF Family Day. Presented in collaboration with the Museum, the free interactive Family Day runs from 10:00am to 3:30pm. The Opening Ceremony will be held from 4:00 to 5:30pm.
Eero Saarinen: News ReleaseFebruary 27, 2008Eero Saarinen was one of the most prolific and celebrated architects of the mid-20th century. Designer of such iconic structures as the St. Louis Gateway Arch and the terminal at Dulles International Airport, as well as popular furniture including the sculptural ‘Tulip’ chair, Saarinen produced a body of work that not only explored the promise of new materials and technologies, but also seemed to capture the uniquely American spirit of optimism during the post-World War II economic boom.
Spring 2008 For the Greener Good: News ReleaseJanuary 3, 2008This series explores broader international themes such as sustainability as a global concern and the contributions, both positive and negative, of various professions on healthy building environments.
Marcel Breuer Exhibition: News ReleaseSeptember 26, 2007Marcel Breuer may not be a household name in the United States, but several works by this 20th-century architect and designer are in fact among the most widely recognized icons of modern design. His “Cesca” and “Wassily” chairs, for instance, with their characteristic tubular steel armatures, have become staples of contemporary living and working environments all over the world. By virtue of his innovative furniture alone, Breuer could be ranked among the most influential designers of the modernist period.
2007 Festival of the Building Arts: News ReleaseSeptember 11, 2007Imagine what it is like to explore the process behind the work of master craftspeople. From the construction workers who dig the foundations to the interior decorators who supply the finishing touches, as many as 25 building professionals will be on hand at the National Building Museum’s Festival of the Building Arts on October 13, 2007, from 10:00 am to 4:30 pm.
For the Greener Good Series: News ReleaseAugust 29, 2007What happens when you assemble some of the world’s leading minds together to discuss solutions about our most pressing environmental issues? The National Building Museum intends to answer the question when it launches a new program series in September entitled For the Greener Good: Conversations that Will Change the World. The program calls on experts from diverse backgrounds to investigate links between environmental sustainability and design, public health, energy policy, bioscience, infrastructure, education, and even popular culture.
Lasting Foundations Exhibition: News ReleaseAugust 24, 2007Africa’s architecture is a living art form, which incorporates ideas about family, home, and community into its very structure. Lasting Foundations: The Art of Architecture in Africa is the first U.S. exhibition to survey African architecture, past and present, from Timbuktu to Johannesburg, and highlight some of the creative architectural solutions Africans have devised in constructing shelters, ceremonial buildings, and cities.
Spotlight on Design with David Rockwell: News ReleaseJune 6, 2007Architect David Rockwell, founder and CEO of the New York-based Rockwell Group, will present his new book SPECTACLE and discuss how the power of visually breathtaking public performances and spectacles has influenced his work on Thursday, June 21 from 6:30 to 8:00 pm at the National Building Museum. Following the presentation, Reed Kroloff, director-designate of the Cranbrook Academy of Art and Museum in Bloomfield, MI, will join Rockwell to discuss the role of these events in the architectural realm.
The Home Depot Foundation Grant: News ReleaseMay 30, 2007The National Building Museum, a congressionally chartered institution that educates the public about the building arts and sciences, today announced that it has received a $600,000 grant from The Home Depot Foundation to further educational efforts toward a more sustainable built environment. Through this partnership, The Home Depot Foundation and the National Building Museum will focus on raising public awareness, sharing best practices in sustainability among design and building professionals and using technology to reach a larger audience.
2007 CityVision: News ReleaseMay 29, 2007How can communities benefit from museums? Why is a particular type of museum the best fit for a community? Every Tuesday since late February, seventh and eight grade students from Thurgood Marshall Educational Center and Stuart-Hobson Middle School have explored these and other questions as participants in the National Building Museum’s CityVision program.
David Macaulay Exhibition: News ReleaseMay 16, 2007For more than 30 years, architect, illustrator, and storyteller David Macaulay has employed the narrative power of drawing to reveal to millions of readers “the way things work.” From the vast underground network of pipes, cables, and tunnels that support cities to the elaborate construction of a mosque, Macaulay’s work illustrates the architectural, engineering, and social processes shaping the built environment. From June 23, 2007 to January 21, 2008, the National Building Museum will present David Macaulay: The Art of Drawing of Architecture an exploration of Macaulay’s original architectural illustrations as a form of visual archeology—a metaphor and a set of visual methods for “excavating” historical structures. 
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