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In celebration of World Book Day, staff at the National Building Museum are turning the pages in Building Stories to share the books that have shaped their imaginations and informed […]

National Building Museum (NBM): Introduce yourself! Who is Terremoto? Terremoto: Terremoto is a landscape architecture office based in Los Angeles and Berkeley, California, co-founded by David Godshall and Alain Peauroi

In 1912, two young electrical engineers, Daniel O’Conor (originally from New York) and Herbert Faber (originally from Cincinnati), discovered that high-pressure plastic resins could replace the mineral mica in insulation

Your Voice: Future Cities Each step you take through the exhibition Coming Together reveals a new story, a new perspective, and an opportunity to participate. You’re first greeted by a

The National Building Museum acquired the Wurts Brothers Photography Collection in 1983, making it one of the Museum’s earliest collections. At that time, the Museum had only recently been established

Vlastimil Koubek, a Czechoslovakian modernist architect who designed more than one hundred buildings primarily in the Washington, D.C. metro region, immigrated to the United States in 1952. He initially worked

As the National Building Museum prepares for The Big Draw and expands Building Stories into libraries across Washington, D.C., we sat down with artist, illustrator, and muralist Trap Bob to

In 2015, the National Building Museum received an incredible gift that opened a new window into one of Washington, D.C.’s most ambitious architectural projects: the Washington National Cathedral. Comprising more