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Opening van de tentoonstelling over Mondriaan en De Stijl in Centre Pompidou, Parijs. Foto: Behrang Mousavi
Works from the NAI archives and library are loaned out for exhibitions both in the Netherlands and abroad. Items from the NAI collection are currently or soon to be on display at the following exhibitions.
| Alexander Calder - The great discovery / Gemeentemuseum Den Haag 11 February - 28 May 2012 Objects on loan: Photograph of Piet Mondriaan in his studio, 1931, from the archives of Charles Karsten. | |
| Ernst May (1886-1970) The new Cities on three Continents / Museum of Architecture, Wroclaw (Breslau) 25 March - 17 June 2012 Objects on loan: 5 items from the archives of C. van Eesteren | |
| Gerrit Rietveld - Die Revolution des Raums / Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, Germany 17 May 2012 - 16 September 2012 Objects on loan: Items regarding G. Th. Rietveld, taken from various archives | |
| Isaac Israels / Haags Historisch Museum 1 June 2012 - 18 September 2012 Object on loan: portait of architect Jan Wils, by Isaac Israels | |
| Bricks, balloons and models / ABC Architectuurcentrum Haarlem June - August 2012 Object on loan: Model of the European Patentbureau in Leidschendam, by Neutelings & Roodbeen Architecten | |
| Henri Labrouste (1801-1875), la structure mise en lumiere / Cité de l'architecture et du patrimoine 10 October 2012 - 7 January 2013 Objects on loan: drawings by J.H. Leliman of the Amsterdam Post Office, 1852. |
November 2010 | The Centre Pompidou in Paris opened a
large-scale exhibition on the 1st of December 2010 on De Stijl and Piet Mondriaan. The NAI has loaned more than 100 items from the
archives of architects such as Theo van Doesburg, Cornelis van
Eesteren, J.J.P. Oud, P.J.C. Klaarhamer, Jan Wils and J.M.L. Lauweriks.
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A list of works on display in the exhibition 'Van Doesburg and the International Avant-Gard: Constructing a New World', taken from the NAi collection.
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April 2011 | On 8 April, the archive of architect J.W.C. Boks
(1904-1986) was officially transferred to the NAI. It is an important
addition to archives from the post-war reconstruction period already in
the NAI collection. This occasion also saw the launch of the book that
Hans Willem Bakx wrote on Boks based on his study of this archive.
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The NAI keeps and cares for roughly 500 archives and individual collections created by Dutch architects, urban designers, professional associations and training institutes.
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From April 7 onwards the people of The Hague , tourists and expats can see the winning design for the International Dance and Music Centre (IDMC) on their smartphone for the first time. They can also marvel at an alternative design for the Bijenkorf department store, City Hall and the Peace Palace . After Rotterdam and Amsterdam , The Hague is the latest city to have its architecture ‘captured’ by the smartphone app UAR (Urban Augmented Reality); the buildings are presented in 3D.
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