Client: Smithsonian Institution
Location: Washington, DC, United States
Completion date: 2004
Artwork budget: $5,000,000
Project Team
Architect
Polshek and Associates
Architect
SmithGroup
Architect
Jones and Jones
Artist
Ramona Sakiestewa
Overview
Create a design vocabulary representing five hundred tribes from the Arctic to Tierra del Fuego. $240 million project (including the new building).
Goals
The goals were for any tribe to see something of themselves in the building and site.
Process
I worked with three architectural firms and twenty-three subconsultants over the course of ten years.