Interior architect and furniture maker Elmar Berkovich (1897-1986) was no great innovator, but he did have a great sense of the zeitgeist and knew what his customers needed. He created designs for the well-to-do clients of stylish Metz & Co., as well as for the labourers of the Philips factories. On 2 December, Stichting BONAS published a monograph on Berkovich, opening up the first inventory of his designs ever. > Read more...

July 2010 | Berlage’s Italian travel sketches together with his travel memories are the result of the Prix de Rome trip he made in 1880-1881. A transcript of the original manuscript of his travel report had been drafted previously and it is now the source material for a newly published book: H.P. Berlage, Italiaanse reisherinneringen (H.P. Berlage, Italian travel memories). > Read more...

March 2010 | At the beginning of this year, the Nirov library – comprising some 10,000 volumes containing much unique material – was transferred to the NAI. The priority areas of the collection are public housing, spatial planning and urban design. All titles will be entered in the NAI collection database in the course of this year. > Read more...

October 2009 | Henri Maclaine Pont (1884-1971) was a child of two worlds: he was born in Batavia, studied civil engineering in Delft, and worked in the Dutch East Indies. Fascinated by indigenous building traditions and praised as a progressive ‘Western’ architect. As part of its series of books, Stichting Bonas will publish a monograph on Henri Maclaine Pont on 10 October. > Read more...

April 2009 | Father and son Metzelaar worked for the Ministry of Justice for many years as ‘engineer-architect for prisons and court buildings’. Ros Floor’s study of their body of work is the 44th in the BONAS book series. > Read more...

Februari 2009 | Hein Salomonson (1910-1994) was one of the second-generation architects of the ‘Nieuwe Bouwen’ style, the Dutch branch of the International School of Modernism. Recently, his body of work was the subject of serious research. Stichting BONAS has published a book about his work. > Read more...

September 2008 |The Italian magazine 'L’architettura cronache e storia' was the platform of architecture critic and historian Bruno Zevi. The NAI already had a number of editions in the library collection, but these have now been complemented by the donation of an almost complete collection of magazines dating from 1958 to 1985. > Read more...

The Delft University of Technology in collaboration with the NAI and Rijksdienst voor Monumentenzorg (the Netherlands Department for the Preservation of Monuments and Historic Buildings) has scanned a number of important architectural periodicals from the period 1850-1945. > Read more...

The NAI Library has received a collection of books on theater architecture donated by the Dutch Society of Theater and Concert Hall Managements (Vereniging van Schouwburgen en Concertbouwdirecties, VSCD). > Read more...

The library has also regularly benefitted from Sanders' generosity over the years. In addition, the NAI has made a small selection from his donations consisting of publications by and about a designer in whom Sanders took a particular interest: the American architect John Hejduk (1929-2000). > Read more...

In November 2000 the archives and library of architect Leo Heijdenrijk (1932-1999) and his office, Architecten Kollektief Heijdenrijk (AKH) in Amersfoort, were donated to the NAI. His private collection of books is now added to the NAI library. > Read more...

Nominations were recently announced for the NAI Prize. The NAI library has added all the submitted schemes to its collection and they can be consulted upon request in the NAI reading room. > Read more...