D.C.-based architects, museum leaders, writers, and others share their recommendations for must-see sights ahead of the 2024 AIA Conference on Architecture.
The recent submission of detailed plans to open up the 1991 Sainsbury Wing, designed by Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown and Associates, has prompted
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Freedom Plaza, Washington DC. Tom Bernard, Photographer. Photo by permission of VSBA Architects and Planners.
I tore down the US Capitol Building. No, I wasn’t one of the clown-car insurrectionists banging through the Capitol doors earlier this month. I was a young idealist with a crane and a plan. I did commit a crime that day, but I don’t think anyone is coming after me for it. Though I came away with regrets, I also gained an insight that has lasted me a lifetime: that we only can understand one key thing at a time, and we best understand what we can see or even better, touch. It may also provide a small insight into mending the torn plan which is our national unity, a