During the fall 2009 CityVision semester, twenty-four students from Browne Education Campus and Lincoln Middle School at Columbia Heights Education Campus have planned their designs for a Visitors’ Center to the White House. In collaboration with the National Capital Planning Commission, the National Building Museum challenged three teams to explore their sites, interview tourists and government officials, and think creatively about design. On January 8^th, the students will explain their creative process and how their designs improve the experience of visitors to the White House.

Refreshments will be served.

Through design basics and extensive fieldwork, CityVision instills in students that they can mold the world around them and enact positive change in their lives and the lives of others through good design. As students explore building sites, brainstorm solutions and accomplish projects together, they learn the importance of teamwork, problem solving and advocacy skills.

For more information, please contact Outreach Programs at cityvision@nbm.org or 202.272.2448.

CityVision is supported by the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities, an agency supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts; Bloomberg; William Randolph Hearst Foundation, and The American Architectural Foundation. Additional support for outreach programs is provided by The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation; The Capital Group Companies; Clark Charitable Foundation; and Joseph F. Horning, Jr., among others.

The American Architectural Foundation’s Accent on Architecture Community Grants Program is sponsored by CAN Insurance Companies and Victor O. Schinnerer & Company, Inc.