December 15, 2005 (RALEIGH, NC) – An award-winning vacation house in the Bahamas, designed by Raleigh architect Frank Harmon, FAIA, principal of Frank Harmon Architect PA, will be included in the upcoming exhibition, “The Green House: New Directions in Sustainable Architecture” at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C. beginning May 2006, and afterwards at other venues in the United States.

According to curatorial associate Reed Haslach, the exhibition “will examine what makes a home ‘green,’ sustainable building materials and home products, and will be highlighted with examples of those avant-garde architectural projects that were part of the companion catalog. (Princeton Architectural Press published the catalog, or book, earlier this year under the same name.) Among those projects is Harmon’s Taylor Vacation House in Scotland Cay, Bahamas.

In addition to photos and drawings of the Taylor House, the curators have commissioned Harmon to construct a scale model of the project for use in the Museum (through May 2007) and in the subsequent traveling exhibition.

The Taylor house was completed in 2000. In 1999 it received an Honor Award from the North Carolina chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA/NC). In 2000 it received an Honor Award from the Triangle section of AIA/NC. And in 2003, it was named Residential Architect magazine’s “House of the Year.”

The National Building Museum explores and celebrates architecture, design, engineering, construction, and urban planning. To learn more about the museum, visit the website: www.nbm.org.

The Green House: New Directions in Sustainable Architect is available at area bookstores. To read more about it, visit Amazon.com. For more information on the Taylor Vacation House, visit Harmon’s website — www.frankharmon.com — and click on “Projects.”