Since early 2013, the Netherlands Architecture Institute has been part of The New Institute. This organisation arose out of a merger between the NAI, Premsela, the Netherlands Institute for Fashion and Design, and Virtual Platform, a knowledge institute for e-culture, thereby combining the disciplines architecture, design, fashion and e-culture. These pieces from the NAI collection show that this interaction between disciplines is nothing new. > Read more...
The website ‘Treasures of the NAI’ brings together the finest items from the NAI collection. Walk through the history of Dutch architecture, using the timeline or map as your guide.
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Every year, the NAi makes dozens of large and small acquisitions for the archive. The most surprising or special acquistions are highlighted on the website. From complete archives to sets of photographs, sketchbooks, diaries, paintings and soundrecordings. > Read more...
Inventoried archives are disclosed and accessible in the NAI reading room. On the website, we present a foretaste of the content and materials of archives of which the inventory is recently completed. > Read more...
An exhibition, a building in the news or a surprising discovery in our own collection, all of them reasons to bring attention to an item or file from the archive and show the stories behind them. > Read more...
View some of the 1300 models from the NAI collection. In the Collection Information System you will filnd information on all items from the model collection, here you can read the stories behind them. > Read more...
Works from the NAI archives and library are loaned out for exhibitions both in the Netherlands and abroad. Take a look at some exhibitions that had items from the collection on display. > Read more...
The library collection is growing annually by a shelf length of some 20 meters - not only through purchases from modern and antiquarian bookshops, but also through gifts from institutions and individuals, and through the acquisition of libraries forming part of the estates of Dutch architects. > Read more...
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