The Kreeger Museum

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.