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Learn more about the National Building Museum's programs and lectures.
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Today's Tours | |
Historic Building Tour | |
February 18, 2018 1:30 PM | |
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Making Room closed. | |
The Making Room exhibition will be closed for the room changeover February 2021, 2018. |
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February 20, 2018 - February 21, 2018 | |
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The Building Zone is closed for routine maintenance. | |
The Building Zone is closed for routine maintenance on February 20, 2018. | |
February 20, 2018 10:00 AM | |
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Today's Tours | |
Historic Building Tour | |
February 20, 2018 11:30 PM | |
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Making Room closed. | |
The Making Room exhibition will be closed for the room changeover February 2021, 2018. |
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February 20, 2018 - February 21, 2018 | |
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Film Festival | |
Architecture and Design Film Festival (ADFF) is the nation's largest film festival devoted to the creative spirit that drives architecture in design. | |
February 22, 2018 - February 25, 2018 | |
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Today's Tours | |
Historic Building Tour | |
February 22, 2018 11:30 AM | |
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ADFF: D.C. Opening Night | |
Join architects, designers, filmmakers, and design enthusiasts at an opening event that features a screening of BIG TIME. Enjoy food and drink, and celebrate the power of architecture and design through film. | |
February 22, 2018 6:00 PM | |
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Film Festival | |
Architecture and Design Film Festival (ADFF) is the nation's largest film festival devoted to the creative spirit that drives architecture in design. | |
February 22, 2018 - February 25, 2018 | |
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Today's Tours | |
Historic Building Tour | |
February 23, 2018 12:30 PM | |
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Film Program: Workplace | |
Workplace is a documentary about the past, present and future of the office. How can we make them better places for people to work and collaborate? What's the next wave of digital tools to connect the office, the city and the planet? | |
February 23, 2018 6:00 PM | |
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Film Program: Eames: The Architect and the Painter | |
From 1941 to 1978, the husband-and-wife team of Charles and Ray Eames brought unique talents to their partnership. He was an architect by training; she was a painter and sculptor. Together they are considered America's most influential designers. | |
February 23, 2018 6:15 PM | |
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Film Program: The Oyler House: Richard Neutra's Desert Retreat | |
The Oyler House: Richard Neutra's Desert Retreat tells the story of this house and its stunning desert setting, through interviews with Richard Oyler, actress Kelly Lynch, Neutra's two sons, and well-known LA real estate agent Crosby Doe. | |
February 23, 2018 6:30 PM | |
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Film Program: Columbus | |
With its naturalistic rhythms, its focus on architecture and empathy for the complexities of families, debut director Kogonada's Columbus unfolds as a gently drifting, deeply absorbing conversation. | |
February 23, 2018 8:15 PM | |
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Film Program: Glenn Murcutt: Spirit of Place | |
Glenn Murcutt: Spirit of Place explores the life and art of Australia's most famous living architect. | |
February 23, 2018 8:30 PM | |
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Film Program: REM | |
REM, the documentary by Rem Koolhaas's son, explores the architect's life, working methods, philosophy, and internal landscape, from a never seen perspective of intimacy and immediacy. | |
February 23, 2018 8:30 PM | |
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Film Festival | |
Architecture and Design Film Festival (ADFF) is the nation's largest film festival devoted to the creative spirit that drives architecture in design. | |
February 22, 2018 - February 25, 2018 | |
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Film Program: Building Hope: The Maggie's Centres | |
This is the fascinating story of Maggie's, a unique cancer charity. 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. | |
February 24, 2018 12:15 PM | |
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Film Program: Glenn Murcutt: Spirit of Place | |
Glenn Murcutt: Spirit of Place explores the life and art of Australia's most famous living architect. | |
February 24, 2018 12:15 PM | |
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Film Program: Getting Frank Gehry | |
Examine Gehry's challenging work over a period of 40 years. Four key phases of creativity, epitomized by four great buildings--chart the evolution of ideas over a lifetime of controversy. | |
February 24, 2018 12:30 PM | |
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Film Program: The Experimental City | |
In the 1960s, frustrated by the growing problem of urban pollution, Athelstan Spilhaus, a visionary scientist and futurist comic strip writer, assembled a team of experts to develop a bold experiment: the Minnesota Experimental City (MXC). | |
February 24, 2018 2:00 PM | |
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Film Program: The Oyler House: Richard Neutra's Desert Retreat | |
The Oyler House: Richard Neutra's Desert Retreat tells the story of this house and its stunning desert setting, through interviews with Richard Oyler, actress Kelly Lynch, Neutra's two sons, and well-known LA real estate agent Crosby Doe. | |
February 24, 2018 2:15 PM | |
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Film Program: If You Build It | |
If You Build It follows designer-activists Emily Pilloton and Matthew Miller to rural Bertie County, the poorest county in North Carolina, where they work with local high school students to transform both their community and their lives. | |
February 24, 2018 2:30 PM | |
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Film Program: The Gamble House | |
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. | |
February 24, 2018 4:15 PM | |
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Film Program: Made in Ilima | |
The Ilima community partnered with the African Wildlife Foundation and MASS Design Group in 2012 to create a new conservation-focused primary school and community center. This film documents the collective building process. | |
February 24, 2018 4:45 PM | |
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Film Program: Columbus | |
With its naturalistic rhythms, its focus on architecture and empathy for the complexities of families, debut director Kogonada's Columbus unfolds as a gently drifting, deeply absorbing conversation. | |
February 24, 2018 5:00 PM | |
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Film Program: Integral Man | |
Toronto's Jim Stewart is the most published mathematician in the world. Stewart spent a decade and a small fortune building the home of his dreams to reflect his two obsessions: curves and music. The completed home, Integral House, provides him with both. | |
February 24, 2018 6:30 PM | |
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Film Program: REM | |
REM, the documentary by Rem Koolhaas's son, explores the architect's life, working methods, philosophy, and internal landscape, from a never seen perspective of intimacy and immediacy. | |
February 24, 2018 6:45 PM | |
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Film Program: Kevin Roche: The Quiet Architect | |
Irish-American architect Kevin Roche is an enigma. Roche's philosophy focuses on creating "a community for a modern society" and he has been credited with creating green buildings before they became part of the public consciousness. | |
February 24, 2018 7:30 PM | |
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