Collections Highlight: James Stewart Construction Collection
Before a building becomes a landmark, it is a construction site, full of excavation, machinery, workers, and plenty of mud and dust. The James Stewart Construction Collection at the National…
Why Human Connection is Driving the Future of the Office
By Lenny Beaudoin, Executive Managing Director, Global Workplace, Design & Occupancy, CBRE After years of debate about remote work, hybrid schedules, and whether offices even have a future, a different…
Haunted by Light: Seeing Architecture Through Negatives
At first glance, the room looks haunted. The sky outside the window is dark and heavy. The windows glow bright white. The floor seems pale and shining, while the walls…
Collections Highlight: Koubek Architects Archives
In the mid-twentieth century, the Washington metropolitan area underwent a dramatic transformation, and D.C.-based architect Vlastimil Koubek was at its center. From the 1960s to 1980s, Koubek Architects completely reshaped…
Collections Highlight: Digitizing the Lautman Collection
Robert C. Lautman was a distinguished architectural photographer who established his practice in Washington, D.C. in the 1940s. Over the course of his career, he photographed many of the city’s…
New Acquisitions: 2026, Part 1
As part of its mission to inspire curiosity about the world we design and build, the National Building Museum actively collects objects, photographs, and paper materials that document the building…
Adopt an Artifact: Blueprint Machine
In the summer of 2024, Joan LaGrave and her daughter Elizabeth Albanese donated this blueprint machine to the National Building Museum. Recognizing its value to the history of architectural practice,…
Stories That Shape Us: Building Stories Reflections
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…
Landscape Architecture Month Q&A with TERREMOTO
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…