The Netherlands Architecture Institute opened its doors at the Museumpark in Rotterdam in 1993, now almost twenty years ago. Since then, hundreds of thousands of visitors have crossed the bridge into the striking building designed by the acclaimed architect Jo Coenen. That experience has now become a thing of the past: the NAI building is under construction.

The NAI entrance will be given a complete overhaul in the course of 2010. In the near future, visitors will enter the NAI via a deck at street level - the NAI threshold will literally become low. Moreover, the NAI will offer a deluxe bookshop, a pleasant café-restaurant, and far more space for the educational programmes after the renovation. The NAI will close at 17:00 hrs on Sunday May 16 and will festively reopen with brand new exhibitions on December 10 2010. The library, book shop and Sonneveld House will remain open during the renovation and platform activities will contine, be it in locations outside the NAI.

Renovation of the NAi, photo credits: Jo Coenen

Netherlands Architecture Institute will close its doors

The Netherlands Architecture Institute will close in the middle of May and will open its doors again in December. Last chance: visit the old NAI before the renovation! The Netherlands Architecture Institute opened in the Museumpark in Rotterdam in 1993, almost twenty years ago. Since then hundreds of thousands of visitors have crossed the bridge into the striking building designed by the architect Jo Coenen. That experience will become a thing of the past when the NAI entrance is given a complete overhaul.
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J. London

n 1921, Frederik van Eeden unveiled his plans for founding a utopian state in the book Het Godshuis in de Lichtstad (The House of God in the City of Light). The architect J. London designed the architecture for this scheme.
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Affiliated organizations

The NAI maintains a close relationship with many organizations in the fields of architecture, urban design, and planning. This page contains links to the sites of those organizations.
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Spatial Ethics: lecture by Jeremy Till

Lecture/Debat/symposium 17 march 2011 20:00 | Architect and critic Jeremy Till offers a proposal for rescuing architects from themselves: a way to bridge the gap between what architecture actually is and what architects want it to be. The lecture was jointly organized by the NAI and the Berlage Institute.
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NEST 27 – Restroom

Exhibition 06 december 2008  - 18 january 2009 | NEST is a 15 m2 one-person gallery in which a different (young) artist, architect or designer shows autonomous work every six weeks. From 6 December 2008 to 18 January 2009 Ties Ten Bosch will use NEST as a place to bring together his investigation of restrooms in the city of Rotterdam.
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