National Building Museum exhibit --"Big & Green"

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Big & Green: Toward Sustainable Architecture in the 21st Century,” the National Building Museum’s newest exhibition, will open in Washington, D.C. on January 17. Big & Green will explore green architecture from design, historical, and technical perspectives and profile roughly 50 green projects from around the world. The exhibit and its companion catalog, to be published by Princeton Architectural Press, will be organized around five themes: Energy; Light and Air; Greenery, Water, and Waste; Construction; and Urbanism. The museum will host the exhibit and conduct public tours of local green building projects through June 22, 2003. Admission is free. The museum is online at www.nbm.org.