Secondary themes can also be developed. The Washington Film Institute is modeled after he American Film Institute located in the Kennedy Center. The goals of both are to increase the recognition and understanding of the film as an art form and to assure its preservation. Thus, our Institute has several roles - that of exhibitor, museum and educational institution. In this project you are designing what may be viewed as an institutional building to be placed it in a city of existing institutions and monuments.
Architecture is both about itself and about other things.
It is about itself in its materiality, spatiality and technology. It is about other things which are external forces such as site context, program content and economics. The final architectural solution must balance these internal and external forces to produce a satisfactory result. Within this building program are certain important public rooms of specific character which may be considered as set pieces. On the other hand, there are other spaces of a more continuous or amorphous nature.