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. > Read more...
Exhibition | NAI Rotterdam - Gallery 3 | 02/02/10-16/05/10
In a collaboration of, on average, twenty European countries, Europan organises a competition of ideas every two years in the field of architecture and urban design for European architects under the age of forty. For this purpose, local municipalities or developers make real sites available. > Read more...
Exhibition | NAI Rotterdam - Gallery 2 | 19/02/10-16/05/10
24 architecture designers take the lead. Assessing what society needs now. Pursuing strategies the market is hesitant to explore. The designs that are presented are the fruits of an ambition to find sustainable designs for the future. > Read more...
Exhibition | NAI Rotterdam - Gallery 1 | 19/02/10-16/05/10
Disputed City is an exhibition about the outcry architecture can cause. About citizens who go ignored. Architects treated with contempt. Bull-headed project developers and conceited lord mayors. But the public get to have the last word. Starting in February in the NAi: the forty most hotly debated designs from the largest architecture collection in the world.
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Exhibition | 29/08/10-21/11/10
Thousands of buildings in the Netherlands lie vacant. Some of them for a week or a few months, many even for years. During the twelfth Venice Architecture Biennale, the Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAI) and Rietveld Landscape will highlight the huge potential of all that temporarily unoccupied space. The exhibition Vacant NL, where architecture meets ideas is on show from 29 August to 21 November 2010 in the Dutch pavilion. > Read more...
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The exhibition Tangible Traces toured the world between November 2007 and February 2010, and was on display in Arnhem from 4 December 2009 to 28 February 2010 in the Museum voor Moderne Kunst. The NAI organised this exhibition to demonstrate the parallels between the work of Onix architects, spatial designer Frank Havermans, textile designer Claudy Jongstra, fashion designer Alexander van Slobbe and industrial designer Hella Jongerius. > Read more...
Exhibition | 07/03/10-05/08/10
From 7 March to 5 August the exhibition Taking a Stance – 8 Critical Attitudes in Chinese and Dutch Architecture and Design travelled in China. The trip started in Shanghai, followed by Beijing and Shenzhen. The Taking a Stance tour will conclude with an exhibition in the NAI in Rotterdam in 2011. In this exhibition the Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAI) and Dutch Design Fashion Architecture (DutchDFA) present eight leading designers from the Netherlands and China. > Read more...
Exhibition | 07/03/10-05/08/10
From 7 March to 5 August the exhibition Taking a Stance – 8 Critical Attitudes in Chinese and Dutch Architecture and Design travelled in China. The trip started in Shanghai, followed by Beijing and Shenzhen. The Taking a Stance tour will conclude with an exhibition in the NAI in Rotterdam in 2011. In this exhibition the Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAI) and Dutch Design Fashion Architecture (DutchDFA) present eight leading designers from the Netherlands and China. > Read more...
Exhibition | 07/03/10-05/08/10
From 7 March to 5 August the exhibition Taking a Stance – 8 Critical Attitudes in Chinese and Dutch Architecture and Design travelled in China. The trip started in Shanghai, followed by Beijing and Shenzhen. The Taking a Stance tour will conclude with an exhibition in the NAI in Rotterdam in 2011. In this exhibition the Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAI) and Dutch Design Fashion Architecture (DutchDFA) present eight leading designers from the Netherlands and China. > Read more...