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Exhibition | 29/08/10-21/11/10
Thousands of buildings in the Netherlands lie vacant. Some of them for a week or a few months, many even for years. During the twelfth Venice Architecture Biennale, the Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAI) and Rietveld Landscape will highlight the huge potential of all that temporarily unoccupied space. The exhibition Vacant NL, where architecture meets ideas is on show from 29 August to 21 November 2010 in the Dutch pavilion. > Read more...
Lecture/Debat/symposium | 01/09/10 10:00 - 22:00
On 1 September the NAI is organising a Debate on Tour in Marxloh, a ‘problem neighbourhood’ in Duisburg, Germany. Dutch and German speakers will discuss how residents can improve their neighbourhood. The co-organisers are Buro Venhuizen, Legenda Gesellschaft and Erfgoed Nederland. > Read more...
‘Architecture of Consequence’ articulates the NAi’s long-term mission to arrive at an agenda for architectural responses to today’s pressing social concerns. This innovative agenda challenges urban designers to come up with progressive proposals and ideas, aimed at accomplishing the transition from a reactive to a proactive design practice. > Read more...
The Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAI) is more than a museum of architecture. It is above all a cultural institute which is open to the public and which uses a variety of methods for communicating about the shaping of human space. > Read more...
Due to a planned renovation, the NAI building is currently almost entirely closed off to the public. The entrance area will be given a complete overhaul in 2010; in the future, it will feature a deluxe bookshop, a pleasant café-restaurant, and far more space for the educational programmes. > Read more...
The NAI collection consists of a couple of million drawings, sketches, floor plans, photographs, letters and other documents, and more and more pieces are being digitised. Throughout the year, a special item from the collection will be on display for a week. Download, collect and share them all! > Read more...
Here you will find all the practical information you need about the NAI Rotterdam, such as opening hours, entrance fees and contact details. Attention: from May 16th, the NAI museum wing is closed due to a planned renovation. > Read more...
June 2010 | The Municipality of Utrecht has proclaimed 2010 Rietveld Year to establish architect Gerrit Th. Rietveld (1888-1964) as an icon of the city. An extensive programme of activities will celebrate, examine and provide a platform for Rietveld’s life and ideas. > Read more...
Built in the early nineteen thirties, the Sonneveld House is one of the best-preserved houses in the Nieuwe Bouwen style, the Dutch branch of the International School of Modernism. > Read more...
