Displaying 2,496 artifacts from the museum’s permanent collection including architectural tools, models, and a vast trove of toys, the open-storage exhibition opened on December 14 and will run indefinitely.
Employing Bates Smart, the same architect as the original, the new headquarters for Australia’s diplomatic mission in the U.S. captures the character of the Land Down Under.
Both on view through next winter, the new shows pick up on different strains of location-specific Modernism to ponder what could be or what might have been.
It’s business as usual at the AIA’s big annual gathering, although talk of dysfunction at the top of the national leadership chain has dampened the mood.
D.C.-based architects, museum leaders, writers, and others share their recommendations for must-see sights ahead of the 2024 AIA Conference on Architecture.
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