This screening is sold out. A rush ticket line will form 30 minutes before screening time, and we will offer tickets for any empty seats 5 minutes prior to the screening.

This is the fascinating story of Maggie's, a unique cancer charity. In 1993, Maggie Keswick Jencks was diagnosed with terminal cancer and was told she had three months to live. On hearing this devastating news she was left to sit on a plastic chair in a hospital corridor. The only place she could find to cry was a bathroom stall. Her husband and co-founder Charles Jencks, said, “I think that initial shock was certainly the moment when Maggie thought we can do better than this. You don’t have to suffer in a corridor on death row having just been told that you are going to die. That was the moment architecture and medicine met in our minds.”

In the last year of her life, Maggie spent her time working on an idea for a cancer center which she hoped would change the lives of other cancer sufferers. Since her death the most prominent names in architecture from Zaha Hadid, Norman Foster, Frank Gehry and others have designed astonishing landmark buildings bearing her name.
Director: Sarah Howitt
2016 / 59 min / UK

This feature film will be screened in the Museum's Pension Commissioner's Suite.

This feature film is followed by Community by Design: Skid Row Housing Trust.
Director: Myles Kramer
2017 / 4 min / USA
Los Angeles has the highest number of unsheltered people in the country. The Skid Row Housing Trust in downtown Los Angeles provides both housing for the homeless and innovative solutions to keep them off the streets. In 1989 the Trust began restoring and preserving single room occupancy housing in the downtown area. Currently, the Trust focuses on new construction projects while collaborating with renowned architects, like Michael Maltzan Architecture and Brooks + Scarpa. The portfolio of buildings that the Trust owns is steadily expanding, using a model that can be replicated in any city.

1.0 LU (AIA)

The Architecture & Design Film Festival: D.C. is presented by the Revada Foundation, courtesy of the estates of Reva and David Logan.

This film screening is free. Please register by clicking the button below. 

Click here to buy the all-access pass which includes the opening night, reception, and auto-registration to all 27 films.

Tickets can be ordered at the door when available.

Tickets are non-refundable and non-transferable.

Image Credit: Still from Building Hope: The Maggie's Centres by Sarah Howitt, 2016.