Object Details
- Author
- Hellmuth, Obata & Kassabaum
- Subject
- National Air and Space Museum
- Category
- Historic Images of the Smithsonian
- In 1958, President Eisenhower authorized the preparation of plans for the construction of a building for a National Air Museum, to be located on a site bounded by Fourth and Seventh Streets SW, Independence Avenue, and Jefferson Drive. The 1964 design by Hellmuth, Obata & Kassabaum (HOK) for "a Museum for the Space Age" was selected. However, their initial design was later modified. In July 1966, President Lyndon Johnson signed into law a bill authorizing construction of a new building for the newly-renamed National Air and Space Museum (NASM). Congressional passage of appropriations for the construction of the new museum occurred in 1971. The final design was approved in 1972 and construction began in November of 1972. The museum opened July 1, 1976.
- HOK were the architects selected. However, their original design was revised and this became the final design.
- For the 1972 final design by Hellmuth, Obata & Kassabaum (HOK), see Neg. SIA2017-018111 through 018119, SIA2017-018122 through SIA2017-018134, and 94-2479. For other designs for a proposed new National Air Museum see: United States, Public Building Administration 1949; McKim, Mead & White 1955; Harbeson, Hough, Livingston & Larson 1962; and HOK's preliminary design of 1964.
- Summary
- Drawing of the exterior the new National Air and Space Museum is of the north facade of the Mall front of the building as viewed from Jefferson Drive.
- Contained within
- Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 07-010, Box 3, Folder: 7
- Contact information
- Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, SW, Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
- 1972
- Standard number
- SIA2017-018129
- Restrictions & Rights
- No restrictions
- Type
- Architectural drawings
- Photographic print
- Exterior
- Physical description
- Number of Images: 1; Color: Black and white; Size: 10w x 8h; Type of Image: Architectural drawings, Exterior; Medium: Photographic print
- Place
- Washington (D.C.)
- Smithsonian Archives - History Div
- Topic
- Architecture--Drawings and plans
- Architecture--Design and plans
- Aeronautical museums
- Exterior architecture
- Architectural firms
- New Museums
- Museums
- Architectural drawing
- Drawing
- Record ID
- siris_sic_14792
