Museum
The Kreeger Museum
Modernist villa of concrete cubes clad in nine hundred tons of hand-selected Italian travertine.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Kreeger Museum in Washington, D.C. follows architect Philip Johnson and his partner Richard Foster as they design a house of concrete cubes and Italian travertine in 1963 for insurance executive David Lloyd Kreeger and his wife Carmen. It traces Foster's trips to the Italian quarries to hand-pick each stone slab and the strict geometric grid that shaped the villa's rooms and domed Great Hall. Listen for how sound behaves under those concrete domes if you're standing in the Great Hall.
This audio guide was created using AI.