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The American Institute of Architects (AIA) announced a $4 million matching grant to benefit the Architects Foundation.

As cities across the United States continue to adapt to a world changed by the COVID-19 pandemic, the National Building Museum announces a timely and ambitious new exhibition: Coming Together: Reimagining America’s Downtowns. 

The Architects Foundation has been awarded $749,723 from the National Park Service Semiquincentennial Grant Program to support structural stabilization and rehabilitation efforts at The Octagon, one of the nation’s most architecturally and historically significant Federal period buildings.

The Fuller Dome, Center for Spirituality and Sustainability at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (SIUE) is hosting a special series of programs from Thursday, March 27 to Monday, March 31 to honor the legacy of renowned visionary and SIUE professor R. Buckminster Fuller.

The National Building Museum announced that it will extend its Frank Lloyd Wright’s Southwestern Pennsylvania exhibition through Sunday, October 5, 2025. 

A SOUTH FORTY offers a cross-section of the dynamic evolution of contemporary architecture in the American South over the last generation.

Two new exhibitions opening with NHM Commons showcase the breadth of the Museum’s collections and its community science initiatives.

Brutalist buildings have been called ‘imposing monsters’ and yet they feature prominently in the architectural landscape of the nation’s capital. The National Building Museum uses this perspective as a launching point for its new exhibition, Capital Brutalism, which opens on Saturday, June 1, 2024. 

On Sunday, January 21, 2024, the National Building Museum opens its landmark new, multigenerational exhibition Building Stories.