Lightness of Strength: The Wave

December 27, 2025

National Building Museum

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About The Event

Suspended in the Great Hall of the National Building Museum, The Wave is a 55-by-180-foot recycled aluminum space frame that demonstrates how advanced material logic and fabrication can shape the next generation of resilient architectural structures in a more sustainable built environment. Its lightness and strength reveal how engineering precision and design imagination can coexist in a single form.

Opening on December 27,2025, Lightness of Strength: The Wave exhibition transforms the museum into a place for public discourse and scholarship—inviting visitors to engage with the evolving relationship between structure, material, and design.

Details

Cost: FREE
Location: National Building Museum, 401 F St NW, Washington, DC 20001
Metro: Judiciary Square (Red line).

For more information and to purchase tickets, visit https://nbm.org/exhibitions/the-wave/

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