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House of Cars: Innovation and the Parking Garage is divided into six galleries.
Early Car Culture examines the birth of the parking garage in the early 20th century.
How Does itWork? focuses on the engineering elements of parking garages including the ramp system, automated hoist systems, and underground garages.
The Mid-Century Garage examines the parking garage building boom in the 1950s.
How Does it Look? features innovative parking garage designs including reproductions of drawings from architects such as Paul Rudolph and Eero Saarinen.
The Future of Parking looks at how garages are being incorporated into sustainable city plans and features photographs of “green garages.”
An auxiliary gallery in the exhibition Art and the Public Imagination looks at how the parking garage has inspired popular culture from fine art to film.
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about 1950s experiments in automated hoist systems, and see examples of the first underground garages. The exhibition features replicas of structural
systems such as columns and beams as well as an early time stamp machine, parking attendant hats, and mid-century films in which parking was pro- moted as the key to a successful urban development. Visitors see images and artifacts from innovative garage façades, including reproductions of drawings by architects such as Frank LloydWright and Eero
Saarinen.The exhibition concludeswith a look at the future of parking, featuring photographs, renderings, and models of “green garages” as well as new types of parking solutions. In conjunction with the exhibition, theMuseum
is developing a variety of education programs intend- ed to further examine the parking garage’s role in our
society.Alecture serieswill cover topics ranging from green design and urban planning to the future of trans- portation and parking. The National BuildingMuse- um will also host a film series surveying the many roles played by the parking garage on screen, from extreme action and intrigue to avant-garde expression. TheMuseumwill also offer free, docent-lead tours of the exhibition beginning November
13.The tours will be 45 minutes in length and will be offered daily at 2 pm. For details and up-to-date information on the exhibition and associated programming, please visit
www.nbm.org.
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