January 6, 2003—On January 17, 2003, the National Building Museum will open a major exhibition on “green” architecture, titled “Big & Green: Toward Sustainable Architecture in the 21st Century.”
Big & Green explores this new architecture from a design, historical, and technical perspective, presenting the work of architects, engineers, and developers who have discovered that ideas from the past, combined with new technologies, make large-scale sustainable building an imminent possibility.
Big & Green will make the concept of sustainability accessible through a variety of illustrations, photographs, drawings, models, structural mock-ups, and interactive components. The exhibition itself will be conceived and installed with sustainable principles in mind. It will be organized with an introduction followed by five main sections – Energy; Light and Air; Greenery, Water and Waste; Construction; and Urbanism – which represent the curatorial criteria for evaluating the projects in the exhibition.
The Museum is located at 401 F Street NW, Washington, D.C. Museum hours are Monday through Saturday, 10 am to 5 pm and Sunday from 11 am to 5 pm. Admission is free. For more information, contact the National Building Museum.
