Exhibition Catalogs | National Building Museum https://nbm.org Wed, 05 Nov 2025 23:31:56 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 MINIATURE METAL SOUVENIR GERMANY https://nbm.org/product/miniature-metal-souvenir-germany/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=miniature-metal-souvenir-germany Wed, 05 Nov 2025 23:31:56 +0000 https://nbm.org/product/miniature-metal-souvenir-germany/ ? Miniature Metal Souvenir Buildings from Germany An extraordinary out of print volume of miniature buildings from Germany. Code: 56046 Member price: $45.00

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Miniature Metal Souvenir Buildings from Germany
An extraordinary out of print volume of miniature buildings from Germany.
Code: 56046
Member price: $45.00

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Intelligent Cities
Susan C. Piedmont-Palladino (editor)
How do we make decisions about where to live, how to get around, what places we value??If we believe that more and better information leads to better, sustainable decisions, where do we get our information? With contributions from experts in research, design, and the technology industry, Intelligent Cities offers an in-depth look at the past, present, and future of urban development.?This wide-ranging and readable book draws on the museum?s year-long Intelligent Cities initiative, an exploration of how data and information technology impact the way cities look, feel, and function. The book features original and award winning infographics commissioned by the museum and provides a context for today’s issues in the history of technology and urban form, the telephone, the computer, mass media, and their impacts on human settlement and society. Publisher: The National Building Museum
Intelligent Cities is a National Building Museum project funded by the Rockefeller Foundation.
Code: 92383
Member price: $22.50

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By Angela Person and Ty Cole / Foreword by Aaron Betsky
Amid the Cold War, urban renewal efforts ushered in a ?Brutalist? phenomenon that reshaped Washington, D.C., in the mid-20th century. ?Many high-profile public buildings were designed and constructed in the nation?s capital, with exposed structural elements and building materials, including concrete, brick, steel, and glass.? They were viewed as cost-effective and efficient, but many haven?t aged well, and public reaction continues to debate their architectural significance.
Capital Brutalism explores the history, current state, and future of seven of these polarizing buildings and the WMATA Metro system in Washington, D.C. ?This exhibition catalog highlights archival documents, drawings, construction photographs, and contemporary photographs to provide context and shed light on the buildings? stories.
Included are the works of architectural masters Marcel Breuer, Gordon Bunshaft, John Carl Warnecke, Harry Weese, and others. Selected buildings are reimagined by leading architecture firms, including Studio Gang, Brooks + Scarpa, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Gensler, and BLDUS, along with students from the School of Architecture at University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
The National Building Museum?s presentation of this exhibition was supported by the American Institute of Architects and on view in Washington, D.C., from June 1, 2024, to February 17, 2025. ?The Capital Brutalism exhibition was co-curated by Dr. Angela Person, associate professor of architecture at the University of Oklahoma, and architectural photographer Ty Cole.
Published by the National Building Museum, 2024.? Paperback, 128 pages / 93 images.
Code:? 169107
Member Price:? $24.25
Price: ?$26.95

The post Capital Brutalism Exhibition Catalog first appeared on National Building Museum.]]> GREEN HOUSE: NEW DIRECTIONS in Sustainable Architecture https://nbm.org/product/green-house-new-directions-in-sustainable-architecture/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=green-house-new-directions-in-sustainable-architecture Wed, 05 Nov 2025 23:31:54 +0000 https://nbm.org/product/green-house-new-directions-in-sustainable-architecture/ The Green House: New Directions in Sustainable Architecture and Design by Alanna Stang & Christopher Hawthorne This book shows how buildings fit with their surroundings and how we can make…

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by Alanna Stang & Christopher Hawthorne
This book shows how buildings fit with their surroundings and how we can make efficient use of our personal space. It presents sustainable design principles through refreshing and diverse examples. Catalogue for the exhibition The Green House: New Directions in Sustainable Architecture and Design. Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Code: 17541
Member Price: $40.50

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Walls Speak: The Narrative Art of Hildreth Mei?re
By Catherine Coleman Brawer
The pages of this exhibition catalog sparkle with the beautifully executed designs of one of America’s leading decorative artists. Authored by the curator of Walls Speak: The Narrative Art of Hildreth Mei?re, currently on view, each entry sheds light on Mei?re’s career. Publisher: St Bonaventure University
Code: 90686
Member price: $31.50

The post WALLS SPEAK CATALOGUE Hildreth Meiere first appeared on National Building Museum.]]> LIQUID STONE: New ARCH in Concrete https://nbm.org/product/liquid-stone-new-arch-in-concrete/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=liquid-stone-new-arch-in-concrete Wed, 05 Nov 2025 23:31:53 +0000 https://nbm.org/product/liquid-stone-new-arch-in-concrete/ ?Liquid Stone: New Architecture in Concrete Co-edited by Martin Moeller and Jean-Louis Cohen Published in response to enthusiastic public demand, the catalogue for the Museum?s acclaimed exhibition Liquid Stone: New…

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Co-edited by Martin Moeller and Jean-Louis Cohen
Published in response to enthusiastic public demand, the catalogue for the Museum?s acclaimed exhibition Liquid Stone: New Architecture in Concrete is now available. The book is co-edited by the National Building Museums Senior Vice President and Curator Martin Moeller and Jean-Louis Cohen of the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University. Moeller,?says that the catalogue is an ?exploration of how a common and seemingly banal material?concrete?can be used to create poetic and seductive structures.?

The book includes descriptive text, photographs, and drawings of all of the contemporary architectural projects in the exhibition, which ran from June 2004 to January 2006. It also features information about virtually all of the new technologies and products that appeared in the show. In addition,contains several essays by prominent historians, architects, and engineers with expertise in concrete design and technology. Contributors include Adrian Forty, R?jean Legault, Guy Nordenson, Antoine Picon, Franz-Josef Ulm, and Tod Williams and Billie Tsien. ?Hardcover, fully illustrated, 248 pages
Code: 15247
Member price: $35.99

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Guide to the Building Records of S.H. Kress & Co.? 5-10-25 Cent Stores at the National Building Museum
By Susan Wilkerson and Hank Griffith
Code: 20010
Member price: $13.46

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Green Community
Edited by Susan Piedmont-Palladino and Timothy Mennel, in conjunction with the exhibition Green Community curated by Susan Piedmont-Palladino
A new book featuring essays about planning, designing and building sustainable places.
Essay topics: The Green Community in Context; Density and Transportation; Conservation and Preservation; Energy Resources;and Local Health and Global Health.?
Contributors: Sir Peter Hall, F Kaid Benfield, Fred Hansen, Jonathan Rose, Robert E Lang, Mariela Alfonzo, Timothy Beatley, Richard Moe, Patrice Frey, Douglas R Porter, William Browning, Thomas L Daniels, Scott A Malcolm, Marcel Aillery, Mary Rickel Pelletier, Erica and Mark Heller, Howard Frumkin, James A Lagro, Jr, Carolyn Steel, Thomas L Daniels, and Esther M Sternberg.
Conclusion by Congressman Earl Blumenauer.?
Code: 13997
Member price: $42.95

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By Robert Rydell and Laura Schiavo, editors
In the midst of the Great Depression, America?s World?s Fairs of the 1930s gave hope to millions, sustaining the assembled with visions of future progress. These grand expositions in Chicago, San Diego, Dallas, Cleveland, New York, and San Francisco showcased an optimistic, consumerist future society and symbolized the Modernist message of progress through design.Designing Tomorrow celebrates the influence and impact of these international expositions. Offering an overview of the fairs and detailed discussions of individual works, distinguished authors examine how designers reconciled radical ?European? Modern style with American tradition. Works by?Edward H. Bennet, Gilbert Rohde, George Keck, Richard Neutra, and others?illuminate the ways in which Modernism became an integral component of the vocabulary of American design.? Additional essays highlight the visual power of these expositions, featuring rare artifacts and photographs of objects including models and plans for ?the houses and cities of tomorrow,? streamlined trains, modern furnishings, and the first televisions. Publisher: Yale
Code: 10761
Member price: $40.50

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Souvenir Buildings :?Miniature Monuments
By Margaret Majua & David Weingarten
The Statue of Liberty, the Parthenon, and the Tower of London are just a few of the hundreds of remarkable souvenir buildings in this book. No type of building, from any place or time, has escaped the collection of Ace Architects, which is regarded as having the best single collection of its kind. The heyday of souvenir buildings was the early decades of the twentieth century, and the range of buildings included here is nothing short of encyclopedic: there are replicas of holy places and football stadiums; dams and bridges; castles and forts; tepees and skyscrapers; ancient monuments and commemorative sites. With this book in the palm of your hand, you never have to leave home again to experience the architectural wonders of the world.
Code: 12469
Member price: $17.96

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