National Building Museum

Edward A Feiner Memorial Lecture

The National Building Museum’s Spotlight on Design lecture series has presented the work of luminaries and legends in architecture for the last 25 years. Your donation will allow the Museum to host a Spotlight on Design lecture inspired by the work of Edward Feiner each year for the next decade. This in-person lecture will present the work of architects and projects that evoke the qualities Feiner brought to his role overseeing the nation’s civic buildings.

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The Edward A Feiner Memorial Lecture highlights a notable lead designer or client whose work elevates the public realm.

Edward Feiner devoted his life to improving the public realm. Throughout his 50-year career, Feiner was a tireless champion for the value of good design—in both the public and private sector. As the founder of GSA’s Design Excellence program, Feiner knew the value that architecture plays in our representative form of government, transforming federal architecture into a source of national pride after decades of decline.

Promoting a diverse range of architecture, Feiner helped to solidify, and in some cases launch, the careers of many of the most significant architects today and had such an immense influence on the nation’s civic image that Esquire Magazine in 2003 called him the “most powerful architect in America."