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Me, Myself and Infrastructure: Private Lives and Public Works in America
Do It Yourself: Home Improvement in 20th-Century America
Pentagon Memorial Competition — Stage One Entry Display
Big & Green: Toward Sustainable Architecture in the 21st Century
Saving Mount Vernon: The Birth of Preservation in America
Of Our Time: 2002 GSA Design Awards
Picture This: Windows on the American Home
Building Images: Seventy Years of Photography at Hedrich Blessing
Kids' View of the City
Up, Down, Across: Elevators, Escalators, and Moving Sidewalks
Building America
Tools as Art: Instruments of Change — The Hechinger Collection
Collections & Traveling Exhibitions
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Each year, the National Building Museum presents an ambitious exhibition schedule that engages visitors with diverse topics and stimulating ideas. Fiscal year 2003 was no different. The Museum opened ten exhibitions, starting with a look at the infrastructure of our country and how it supports our lifestyles, and ending with an examination of how elevators, escalators, and moving sidewalks have shaped our world as we know it. In between, the Museum offered the public a big slice of “green architecture,” also referred to as environmentally-sensitive or sustainable architecture, among other exciting shows.


“The most provocative and clear-minded exploration of architecture as a force for cultural change.”
Barbara Flanagan, Metropolis, May 2003, referring to the exhibition Big & Green.
Recyclable, Portable Fabric Skyscraper — Experimental project, 2000 [unbuilt]. FTL Design Engineering Studio. From Big & Green.