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The NAI collection consists of a couple of million drawings, sketches, floor plans, photographs, letters and other documents, and more and more pieces are being digitised. Every two weeks, a special item from the collection will be on display. Download, collect and share them all!
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M.A. and J. van Nieukerken. Staircase for Bataafsche Petroleum Maatschappij, The Hague, 1917. NAI Collection / NIEU 271
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, the work of the Van Nieukerken brothers was very popular with well-healed and highly influential clients. By the late 1920s, however, their artisanal, historicist style of architecture went out of favour, making way for more modern trends. Both governments and private clients turned their back on the firm. When the Bataafsche Petroleum Maatschappij petrol company wanted to build a new office for the Bataafsche Import Maatschappij, the Van Nieukerkens were passed over and architect J.J.P. Oud was given the assignment.
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You can order reproductions of all collection pieces, from small prints to poster formats. Reading room staff will gladly advise you of the options. Take a look at the Prices page for the costs of reproductions.
The NAI was formed in 1988 by a merger of The Stichting
Architectuurmuseum, the Nederlands Documentatiecentrum voor de
Bouwkunst, and Stichting Wonen. These three organizations placed their
collections in the care of the new institute. The history of the
collection however, goes much further back.
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The NAI keeps and cares for roughly 500 archives and individual collections created by Dutch architects, urban designers, professional associations and training institutes.
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One hundred and one unique, poignant, valuable, striking, influential,
everyday, erudite, personal, gripping and ordinary objects from the
collection of the Netherlands Architecture Institute.
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View all items from the Collection presented in the showroom so far. Click any of the pictures to start a slide show. You can navigate forwards and backwards from there.
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