The NAI was responsible for the Dutch entry at the 9th International Architecture Biennale of Sao Paolo. The exhibition ‘Unsolicited Architecture’ featured nine projects by architects who enter into urgent social challenges. They seize opportunities where the established building practice doesn't. Almost all of the presented projects are established in cooperation between Dutch and international architects. The architecture biennial was on show from November 1 to December 1 2011 in the OCA building in Sao Paulo. > Read more...

Exhibition | 18/11/11-28/11/11

Architecture of Consequence - Dutch Designs for the Future was originally produced by the NAI for the Sao Paulo Architecture Biennale in 2009. Architecture of Consequence has traveled the world and has exhibited in Sao Paulo, Moscow, Rotterdam, Nijmegen, Mumbai and San Francisco. On November 18, 2011 the exhibition opened in the Baku Sea Port Terminal building in Azerbaijan. > Read more...

Exhibition | External location - | 11/02/11-31/03/11

After Saõ Paulo, Moscow, Rotterdam and Nijmegen, it’s Mumbai’s turn. The Architecture of Consequence exhibition has moved to India and opened on 10 February in Studio-X Mumbai. The exhibition was opened by Mayor Ahmed Aboutaleb of Rotterdam, who visited Mumbai with a number of members of the NAi Circle. > Read more...

Exhibition | 31/08/11-21/10/11

Architecture of Consequence – Dutch Designs on the Future was originally conceived by the NAI for the Sao Paulo Architecture Biennale in 2009. Over the past two years Architecture of Consequence has been travelling around the world; it has been presented in Sao Paulo, Moscow, Rotterdam, Nijmegen and Mumbai. On 31 August the latest incarnation opened in the American Institute of Architects in San Francisco (AIA SF). > Read more...

Exhibition | 14/04/11-10/07/11

The exhibition Rietveld's Universe, a co-production of the Centraal Museum Utrecht and the Netherlands Architecture Institute, will run at the MAXXI (National Museum of the 21st Century Arts) in Rome from April 14 until July 10 2011. > Read more...

Exhibition | 08/12/11-10/02/12

The Dutch entry for the Shenzhen architecture biennial in 2011 is the exhibition 'Housing with a Mission'. The exhibition displays design solutions for affordable housing that were developed as part of a joint Dutch-Chinese project. The collaboration is interesting for both parties: The Netherlands have the opportunity to share their expertise in housing and China offers challenging work for architects. The designs will be realized next year in Beijing by the Chinese project developer and NAI partner VANKE. > Read more...

Exhibition | NAI Rotterdam - | 01/07/11-15/01/12

In terms of design, the Netherlands and China seem to be another’s opposite: the small pioneer for conceptual design versus the economic superpower. But daring designers live and work in both countries. Designers with ideas, designers with guts. With the exhibition daringdesign, the Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAI) in Rotterdam presented the most prominent 8 of them. One by one they showed their eye-catching and sometimes highly controversial projects – from fashion collection to book, from scale model to art project. > Read more...

Exhibition | NAI Rotterdam - | 26/11/11-18/03/12

How can Haarlem develop into an integral part of the Amsterdam Metropolitan Area and what role can Haarlem-East play in this process? The Ymere housing association and the NAI invited design teams to devise a plan in response to this challenge. The intriguing visions that this has produced could serve as the basis for an inspiring long-term vision for the area. These plans were shown from 26 November 2011 to 18 March 2012 in the ‘New Harloheim’ exhibition at the NAI. > Read more...