DutchDFA aims to strengthen the international position of the most prominent of the Dutch creative industries through a joined-up approach. The four-year strategic programme takes place in the focus countries Turkey, Germany, China and India.
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What can investors and architects do to improve the liveability and competitiveness of cities in Romania? What kind of partnerships can they develop? And on which strategic sites should they focus? In collaboration with Zeppelin Magazine and the Dutch Initiative for Sustainable Cities (DISC), the NAI organised a Debate on Tour in Bucharest on 16 December 2011. > Read more...
CITY – MONEY – ARCHITECTURE @Bucharest, Romania
STEERING FUTURES-EMERGING VISIONS FOR THE CITY-REGION @Mexico City, Mexico
Casablanca's design lessons @Casablanca, Morocco
Aesthetic Regulation: Public Interest or Censorship? @Moscow, Russia
Sustainable Architecture and the Post-Industrial City @Turin, Italy
Exhibition | 10/02/12-18/03/12
In the past few years, our relationships with and attitudes towards food, health, energy, space, time, social relationships and (economic) value have spiralled out of control. Now, faced with the consequences of our over-consumption, we are desperately in search of ways to redress the balance. Is architecture able to play a part in restoring harmony? Can architecture help us to build a more sustainable society? > Read more...
Exhibition | External location - | 19/01/12-01/04/12
Due to great success Unsolicited Architecture, the Dutch entrance at the 9th International Architecture Biennale of Sao Paolo, is now on show at Studio X, Rio de Janeiro. The exhibition Unsolicited Architecture features 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. > Read more...
As a part of the cultural Speed Date organized by the Prince Claus Fund on December 14, architect José Forjaz from Mozambique was invited by the NAI for a stay of 11 to 16 December 2011. After his visit we asked him a few questions. > Read more...
NAI hosts cultural programme for President of Mali
Liu Xiaodu of Urbanus Architects
For several years the NAI has been working with partners abroad to organise debates on location under the title Debates on Tour. By raising topical, global themes in architecture and urban planning for discussion on the most diverse locations in the world, we hope to promote the exchange of knowledge on a global scale. > Read more...
In order to convince as large an audience as possible of the need to deploy architecture to solve several global issues, the NAI is letting her exhibitions travel all over the world. > Read more...
Worldwide people are struggling with acute spatial challenges, architecture can play a part in helping to find answers to these problems. The NAI aims to prioritise them at national and local level, and address them through research and debate. > Read more...
To stimulate the exchange of knowledge and strengthen networks, many times a year the NAi invites a foreign expert to come to Rotterdam. The NAI puts together a tailor-made programme that enables the visitor to become acquainted with numerous organizations and people relevant to him or her within a short period of time. > Read more...
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