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Join °®¶¹app/DC for a walking tour of the Modernist grounds and exterior buildings of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) campus, designed and built in the 1960s by Voorhees Walker Smith Smith and Haines.

You notice the difference the minute you turn off Fort Hunt Road. The houses are modest, nestled into the landscape and they are not in orderly rows lined up with the street. Grass exists only in patches. Garage doors are hard to find. There are no six-panel front doors or shutters on the windows. And the windows – they’re huge! What is this place? It’s Hollin Hills...

Join °®¶¹app DC and Claude Engle for a talk on the DC Metro Lighting Renovation Project Lighting designer Claude Engle will present the ongoing project to renovate the lighting in the Washington, DC area's Metro stations. The new lighting approach implements the original design intent with today’s technology, allowing the stations to fully realize Harry Weese’s design for the first time. 

°®¶¹app/DC and Howard University’s Department of Architecture will host a tour of modern architecture on Howard's main campus in Washington, DC. Howard is a historically black university with a long standing commitment to the field of architecture. The tour will feature modern buildings designed by African American architects including Hilyard Robinson and Paul R. Williams and explore the role of the modern movement in campus development.

A supersized version of his famed Barcelona Pavilion, the Tugendhat House and its restoration combine great architecture with a compelling 20th century story.

Register now and join °®¶¹app/DC for a tour of Victor Lundy's US Tax Court Building to take place on Friday, December 7th.

On Tour Day, °®¶¹app/DC will explore the evolution of Pennsylvania Avenue from L’Enfant’s plan, to the 20th century work of the Pennsylvania Avenue Development Corporation, to the current studies of the Pennsylvania Avenue Executive Committee.

The 2018 edition of the Hollin Hills House Tour will be held on April 28. The excursion, which is a self-guided walking tour, promises a look at the distinctive planned neighborhood of Hollin Hills and its collection of midcentury modern architecture.