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Round Two for Snarkitecture at the National Building Museum’s 2018 Summer Block Party

March 22, 2018

Three years after designing a temporary installation for the museum, the firm will stage a retrospective of their greatest projects.

Living Large in Small Spaces by 'Making Room'

Deane Madsen

November 17, 2017

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A new exhibition at the National Building Museum highlights diverse ways of living that accommodate changing demographics.

Studio Gang Architects Assembles Hive at the National Building Museum

Deane Madsen

July 5, 2017

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Jeanne Gang and her team stacked paper tubes to construct soaring, Pantheon-like structures inside the museum’s Great Hall.

Exhibition Review: Timber City at the National Building Museum

Braulio Agnese

October 13, 2016

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A new show demonstrates that, when it comes to using timber to its full potential, we’re not out of the woods.

The National Building Museum—on Ice

In the sweltering heat of a Washington, D.C. summer, cool down in James Corner Field Operations' icy refuge.

Janelle Zara

August 9, 2016

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Outside, D.C.’s notorious 90-degree average highs make the the nation’s capital feel like it’s melting.

The National Building Museum's Building America

An interactive online exhibition

Kevin Lerner

January 18, 2016

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Building America is, in a way, the Building Museum’s permanent collection, on the web. It’s an effort—a laudable and substantially accomplished effort—to put the history of American construction out in cyberspace, where the general public can get a better idea of its environment.