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Capital Brutalism, an exhibit on view through February 17 at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C., amply demonstrates why. Brutalist buildings are unornamented concrete hulks.
The building was evaluated as a possible home for the National Museum of the American Latino or the Smithsonian American Women's History Museum. [26] [27] The building has hosted a number of exhibitions and artists in residence, such as Catie Cuan, a Futurist-in-Residence who performed at the closing ceremonies of the Futures exhibit on July 6 ...
The National Building Museum's gift shop was honored in 2007 as the "Best Museum Store" in the country by Niche magazine, "Best All-Around Museum Shop" in the region by The Washington Post, [7] a "Top Shop" by the Washingtonian, [8] and named best museum shop in D.C. by National Geographic Traveler's blog, Intelligent Travel, in July 2009. [9]
The competition received 139 entries, which were anonymously displayed for the private judging event at the National Building Museum in early June 1989. Each entry consisted of two or three 30 by 40 inches (76 by 102 cm) paperboard panels. On the first day, judges were asked to include or exclude each design.
The exhibition traveled to the National Building Museum [20] and to the Art Institute of Chicago. [21] Other GRI exhibitions have included "Overdrive: L.A. Constructs the Future, 1940-1990", co-organized with the museum in 2013, [ 22 ] "World War I: War of Images, Images of War" in 2015, [ 23 ] and "Cave Temples of Dunhuang: Buddhist Art on ...
In October 2010, the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C., opened an exhibition titled Designing Tomorrow: America's World's Fairs of the 1930s. [10] This exhibition, which was available for view until September 2011, prominently featured the Texas Centennial Exposition.
The National Portrait Gallery occupies a portion of the Old Patent Office Building, a National Historic Landmark. The building is located just south of Chinatown in downtown Washington. Constructed between 1836 and 1867, [68] the building has a sandstone and marble façade, [69] and porticoes modeled after the Parthenon. [70] The building was ...
Many of the temporary installations from the exhibition have gone on to be exhibited in other exhibitions or at new sites. Alchemy was exhibited as part of the 2018 Venice Biennale of Architecture. [31] Playhouse was exhibited as part of a retrospective for Snarkitecture at the National Building Museum [32] in the summer of 2018. [33]