‘A Better Life for Their Children: Julius Rosenwald, Booker. T Washington and the 4,978 Schools that Changed America’ and ‘The Tuskegee Chapel: Paul Rudolph x Fry & Welch’ remain on view through early next year.
The educator and curator talks to RECORD about teaching in the present climate, as well as his views on current museological approaches and architectural exhibitions.
Displaying 2,496 artifacts from the museum’s permanent collection including architectural tools, models, and a vast trove of toys, the open-storage exhibition opened on December 14 and will run indefinitely.
Both on view through next winter, the new shows pick up on different strains of location-specific Modernism to ponder what could be or what might have been.
The Chicago-based artist joins past recipients of the National Building Museum–awarded honor including Mabel O. Wilson, Paul Goldberger, and Phyllis Lambert.
As an increasing number of Americans struggle to pay rent, the National Building Museum convened policymakers, designers, and researchers from the private and public sectors to highlight paths forward.
This month's dates and events includes a retrospective of an award-winning Swedish firm in Stockholm and an outdoor housing exhibition in Bentonville, Arkansas.