4331 x 6460 px | 36,7 x 54,7 cm | 14,4 x 21,5 inches | 300dpi
Data acquisizione:
ottobre 2010
Ubicazione:
Fourth Street and Independence Avenue, Washington DC
Altre informazioni:
The National Museum of the American Indian is a museum operated under the auspices of the Smithsonian Institution that is dedicated to the life, languages, literature, history, and arts of the native Americans of the Western Hemisphere. The National Museum of the American Indian on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. opened on September 21, 2004, on Fourth Street and Independence Avenue. Fifteen years in the making, it is the first national museum in the country dedicated exclusively to Native Americans. The five-story, 250, 000-square-foot (23, 000 m2), curvilinear building is clad in a golden-colored Kasota limestone designed to evoke natural rock formations. The museum’s architect and project designer is the Canadian Douglas Cardinal (Blackfoot); its design architects are GBQC Architects of Philadelphia and architect Johnpaul Jones (Cherokee/Choctaw). Disagreements during construction led to Cardinal's being removed from the project, but the building retains his original design intent. His continued input enabled its completion. The museum’s project architects are Jones & Jones Architects and Landscape Architects Ltd. of Seattle and SmithGroup of Washington, D.C., in association with Lou Weller (Caddo), the Native American Design Collaborative, and Polshek Partnership Architects of New York City; Ramona Sakiestewa (Hopi) and Donna House (Navajo/Oneida) also served as design consultants. The landscape architects are Jones & Jones Architects and Landscape Architects Ltd. of Seattle and EDAW, Inc., of Alexandria, Virginia.
