For the first time fashion designer Dries Van Noten allows a filmmaker to accompany him in his creative process and rich home life. For an entire year Reiner Holzemer documents the precise steps that Dries takes to conceive of four collections.
The Gamble House is the incredible story of brothers Charles and Henry Greene who were pushed by their forceful father into a career in architecture only to design and build the most seminal and stunning Arts & Crafts house in America.
Witness death-defying feats of aeronautics well, model aeronautics, anyway when the D.C. Maxecuters return to fly their model airplanes in the Museum's Great Hall.
See the possibilities of city planning through young eyes. Kindergarteners through second graders from every D.C. Public School in the city spent six weeks exploring their school communities see the culminating event.
Use creative writing, collage, and artwork to creatively reimagine the world we will design and build for ourselves. This workshop is for teens currently enrolled in 8th 12th grades.
Book Talk and Signing: The Watergate: Inside America's Most Infamous Address
Hear how Italian architect Luigi Moretti promised to bring a "touch of Rome" to America's capital city with the design of the Watergate complex.
Explore books and the built world in everyday life with DC Public Librarians. Story times for children age 5 and younger are packed full of reading, songs, and activities designed to promote language and literacy skills.
Gain understanding of the inspirations, design processes, successes, and challenges of three of D.C's most complex, large-scale projects - The Wharf, St. Elizabeths East Campus, and McMillan.
Explore social issues and the creative process of architecture through imaginative fiction and artwork. The National Building Museum and Blank Space present the winners of the 2018 Fairy Tales competition.
Exhibition Opening: Community Policing in the Nation's Capital
The exhibition will display for the first time a newly discovered collection of posters, maps, and other materials from this innovative community policing plan.