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EXHIBITION
Open City Designing Coexistence

Open City: Designing Coexistence

Exhibition 25 september 2009  - 10 january 2010 | The main exhibition of the 4th IABR is Open City: Designing Coexistence in the Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAI). The building is literally opening up to the city of Rotterdam during the 4th IABR with a new and direct link between the street and the biggest of the exhibition galleries.
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ABOUT THE NAi
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What is the NAI?

The Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAI) is more than a museum of architecture. It is a 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.
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Jaarverslag 2008

Annual report 2008 now available

The Netherlands Architecture Instute has recently published its 2008 annual report under the title: New NAI Now. The report is now available online.
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NEWS

Reading room closed on November 11

05 november 2009 | Because of a special event the reading room is closed on Wednesday November 11
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Johannes Pedersen

NAI Debates on Tour in Copenhagen

02 november 2009 | The future public spaces were up for debate when the director for The Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAI), Ole Bouman, raised sharp questions to both the presenter and the audience in the Danish Architecture Center on October 26th.
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OPEN CITY EVENT PROGRAM

Open City activities

During the 4th International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam (IABR), the NAI will be the arena for a series of activities that will take place weekly from Wednesday to Sunday. Lectures and debates, but also workshops and film viewings are part of the special IABR Open City Event Program.
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SEARCH THE COLLECTION

Collection Information System

The Collection Information System (CIS) enables you to search the Library collection (for books, brochures and audio-visual materials), the Model collection and the Archives. You can search these three subcollections separately or simultaneously using a single search command. The inventories of the archives are available as full text in the CIS.
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INNOVATION AGENDA

NAI presents: Architecture of Consequence

13 october 2009 | The Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAI) introduces its innovation agenda Architecture of Consequence (referred to in Dutch as Architecture of Consequence) with a book, an international, travelling exhibition and a congress in the last weekend of October.
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YOUR NAi
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Your NAi

What does the NAi look like through the camera lenses of our visitors and passers-by? Take a look at our NAi & Sonneveld House flickr pool and find out!
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VISITOR INFORMATION
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Practical information

Here you will find all the practical information you need about the NAI Rotterdam, such as opening hours, entrance fees and how to reach the NAI.
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EVENTS
'I am Gurgaon: The new city in India'

VPRO Film 'I am Gurgaon: The new city in India'

Movie/theater/music 21 november 2009 12:00 | Screening of the VPRO Tegenlicht documentary I am Gurgaon: The new city in India directed by Marije Meerman. A co-production of the VPRO and the 4th International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam (IABR).
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COMPETITION
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Open Fort 400

Housing Corporation Ymere and the Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAi) are organizing the second edition of the Ymere NAi Open Ideas Competition, this year entitled Open Fort 400.
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LECTURES & DEBATES

Debates on Tour

How can the international debate be stimulated? The NAI Debates on Tour are intended to promote the exchange of information about current universal themes in architecture around the world.
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