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Living Room Interior. Architect / designer: J.B. van Loghem. Photographer: unknown. NAI Collection / TENT_o468
December 2010 | The NAi manages a large collection of photographs. Some of them are now on Flickr. Enjoy more than 350 photos from between 1910 and 1930, picturing the highlights of Dutch architecture.
Flickr has a large and active user community of people interested in photography and heritage. Through them, we hope that often unseen collections of photographs from the NAI archives will be given a new lease of life. They include some wonderful collections that deserve far more attention than they could ever get on our own website. Besides, it will benefit the information about the collections and their accessibility if we can use the knowledge available in the Flickr community to identify, describe or interpret what can be seen on the photographs.
Flourishing of the arts
The first sets on Flickr show more than 150 images from the archives of the Exhibition Council. The Exhibition Council for Architecture and Related Arts was set up around 1920, with the aim of organising exhibitions to ‘promote the flourishing of the arts‘. Representatives of various societies in the field of architecture as well as in the ornamental, artisanal and applied arts served on the council.
Cream of the crop
In the period between 1925 and 1935, a collection of photographs was built up to draw attention to the cream of the crop of Dutch architecture. The collection was used in countless exhibitions, including the World Fairs in Paris in 1925 and Brussels in 1935. The photographs of the Council were intended to paint an ideal picture: they emphasise the artistic and aesthetic manifestations of architecture.
Share your own pictures
All these pictures are taken in the first half of the twentieth century. We are curious to learn how these buildings look like today. If you have recently taken photographs of these buildings or locations, please add them to your comment. If you'd like to include a Flickr photo, simply copy and paste its URL between square brackets in the commentary-field.
The NAI archives comprise hundreds of negatives and thousands of
photographs. Photos from the early 19th century to the 1990s, varying
from holiday snapshots to photographic
work by legends in the field of (architecture) photography.
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A selection of photographs from the NAI collection can also be seen on Flickr Commons. Photographs shown are those which, to the best of our knowledge, have no known copyright restrictions.
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What will the library of the future look like? Together with
(inter)national students and other interested parties, the Netherlands
Architecture Institute (NAI) and the Netherlands Public Library
Association (VOB) are cooperating on a new functional design for the
library of the future.
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Look at photographs and drawings of six churches that M.F. Duintjer designed in the fifties and sixties.
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Once renowned for their strict government-controlled spatial planning, many former communist cities in the Western Balkans have been transformed by feverish and uncontrolled urban growth. How can new cultures of spatial planning be created in a region where not only residents but even architects and urban planners can feel excluded from spatial developments? In collaboration with POLIS University, Co-PLAN, EXPEDITIO and ASA, the NAI organised a Debate on Tour to Tirana, Podgorica and Sarajevo from 4 to 6 July 2011 to address these issues.
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