Disputed City was an exhibition about the outcry architecture can cause. About citizens who went ignored. Architects treated with contempt. Bull-headed project developers and conceited lord mayors. But the public got to have the last word. Interested in the NAI exhibition Disputed City? The physical exhibition has ended, but the online version is still alive and kicking!
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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. > Read more...

In 1912, the Municipality of Rotterdam announced a competition to design a new City Hall on Coolsingel. A number of the models which were entered for the competition remained for decades in the City Hall's attic. The dirt-encrusted, dilapidated models are now to be restored for inclusion in the NAI Collection where they will become available for public viewing. > Read more...

In 1967 Amsterdam organized an international competition to design a city hall. No fewer than 803 proposals were received from all over the world. In the webpresentation 'Amsterdam City Hall Competition' you can read about the competition and how it became a 'matter of the Amsterdam City Hall'. Go to the webpresentation. > Read more...

Web exhibition in conjunction with NAI exhibition, summer 2005. To know more about the past, present and future of the Dutch polders, go to the web presentation 'Polders - The Scene of Land and Water'. > Read more...

Web exhibition 'Conversation Pits & Cul-de-sacs - Dutch architecture of the 1970s' in conjunction with NAI exhibition, summer 2004. Go to the web exhibition. > Read more...

The exhibition START was set up as an 'open depot' in which visitors could consult material from the Koolhaas & OMA/AMO archives. An archival database with background articles has been created especially for the exhibition. This database is still available online. > Read more...

Provocative, experimental, conceptual, fresh, dry, minimalist, brutalist and even crude: these are all descriptions that have been applied to the designs exhibited in Reality Machines. This is the first time the Netherlands Architecture Institute has shown the work of young Dutch architects, industrial and graphic designers, photographers and fashion designers in the same exhibition. Go to the web presentation "Reality Machines'. > Read more...

Hani Rashid and Lise Anne Couture founded Asymptote in 1987 in New York. Since then the practice has built up a leading reputation in the world of architecture by exploring the limits of the discipline in which it operates and the potential of new technology. > Read more...

The office of Chief Government Architect of the Netherlands celebrates its bicentenary in 2006. > Read more...

The Swiss architectural practice Herzog & de Meuron was established in 1978 by Jacques Herzog (1950) and Pierre de Meuron (1950). Since then the Basel-based practice has grown into an international firm with four partners. > Read more...

Since May 1, 2004 10 new countries have joined the European Union: Amongst these, the Eastern European countries have a particular history. Because of the Iron Curtain and its subsequent collapse these countries developed in a very different way to most western European countries. > Read more...

The Rem Koolhaas web file contains biographical information, bibliographical references and links to internet resources on Koolhaas, OMA and AMO, as well as their most important works. A list of projects offers an overview of works between 1972-2002. > Read more...