National Building Museum Rolls Out Red Carpet for Jean Nouvel

Tonight the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C., welcomes Pritzker Prize-winning architect Jean Nouvel, who will discuss his work as part of the museum’s “Spotlight on Design” lecture series, sponsored by Lafarge. We popped in earlier today to catch a glimpse of the preparations (and the swell Saarinen retrospective, on view through June 23). Nouvel will speak in the museum’s Great Hall, where those massive Corinthian columns frame hundreds of golden chairs set up for the occasion.