ANNUAL REPORTS,

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  • ANNUAL REPORT 2008

    The NAI is not only an active museum and architecture archive; we try to catalyze people of all ages to get involved in architecture. Our dynamic education and youth programme is a great success. We are partnered with a diverse and varied number of organisations in the private and public sector. As a national cultural institute, we take responsibility for the quality of the built environment around us.

    Our aim is to create a lively, welcoming context for activities and information sharing in many places and within digital network environments. We are, in short, an energetic organisation committed to profiling and promoting the best in architecture. And we hope this publication will give you an idea of who we are and what we do.

    Read more: Browse through the NAi annual report 2008 online.


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    "For a major national institute, a change of directorship may on no account send ripples, however slight, throughout the organisation. The long-term planning, stability of the day-to-day management, sustainability of the institute’s cultural remit and the intellectual integrity of the staff assure that policy amendments filter through the Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAi) little by little. Now, on the eve of its twentieth anniversary, there is no doubt that the NAi possesses the degree of continuity appropriate to a mature institute. A development which has since also been voiced in Dutch cultural policy, with the designation of the NAi as a cultural institute.With this as my cornerstone, I utilised the first term of my directorship (from 1 April 2007) to examine ways of building on this reputation and position in the future. It goes without saying that continuity is an essential, although not integral, condition for further progress. Hence the development of a number of clearly new impulses, set out in the recently published Policy Plan 2009-2012 ‘Op het snijvlak van opgave and ontwerp’.

    Ole Bouman
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    Short introduction
    The two poles between which architecture is moving at the moment - spectacle and profundity - also delineate precisely the spectrum that NAI covered with its
    activities in 2006. Attention was devoted to the spectacle with spectacular and wellattended exhibitions like ‘Spectacular City’ and ‘Wijdeveld’. The exhibition on Wijdeveld brought the work and life of this unusual and interesting architect and artist to life in a dramatic way. ‘China Contemporary’ must also be mentioned under the heading of spectacle: a unique joint production with the Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum and the Netherlands Photo Museum that provided a clear survey of the current state of play in Chinese architecture, art and visual culture.




    Annual Report 2005 (Download PDF)

    Short summary

    The Netherlands Architecture Institute uses every resource possible to demonstrate how architecture surrounds us and invests our surroundings with meaning. In 2005, the NAI did so by using fragments, artists’ illustrations, and experiments with materials (Herzog & de Meuron), large scale models (Polders) and historic documents (Team 10). We also used historic material (presentations in Gallery 2 that augmented our permanent collection) and futuristic images in Gallery 3, our experimental laboratory. But we also did it with lectures and debates, excursions and publications.

    Moreover, we managed to make the importance of architecture clear to the opinion pages in the daily newspapers. There we attempted to clarify how Dutch spatial planning reflects society’s problems whilst also creating space for improvement. In all these ways, the NAI has demonstrated how architecture not only produces beautiful objects you can experience three-dimensionally but that it is in itself, as a way of understanding your physical world, meaningful and imparts meaning to its surroundings.

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