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NAI Newsletter March 2008

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NAI EXHIBITIONS  
Happening

HAPPENING
NAI Rotterdam, Gallery 1: March 1 - May 4, 2008
For two months the NAI will organise happenings in and around an installation that the architect Wiel Arets has specially designed for the NAI: concerts, theatre performances, interactive video projections, debates, dinners and performances. Read more...

 
Living in the Lowlands

LIVING IN THE LOWLANDS
NAI Rotterdam, Gallery 2: Permanent exhibition
The permanent exhibition Living in the Lowlands reveals the collection's wealth of drawings, models and photographs featuring domestic life in the Netherlands over the last 150 years. Read more...

 
Europan 9

EUROPAN 9
NAI Rotterdam, Gallery 3: March 7 - May 15, 2008
Exhibition showing the entries that Europan 9 Nederland received for the four Dutch sites. Visitors can study a wealth of innovatory ideas submitted by young and talented architects. Read more...

 
Nest 21

NEST 21: PAULIEN BREMMER "ARKADI"
NAI Rotterdam, Gallery 3: January 26 - March 9 2008
One person gallery Nest shows works by Dutch architect and artist Paulien Bremmer, who investigates non-zones, such as the temporary Russian island "Arkadi".
Read more...

 
Nest 22

NEST 22 - SU TOMESEN 'OSCARLAND'
NAI Rotterdam, Gallery 3: March 15 - April 27, 2008
Artist and video director Su Tomesen (1970) presents in NEST multilayered representations of Brazilian buildings under the title 'OSCARland'. Read more...

 
Dom van der Laan

THE HUMAN HABITAT
NAI Maastricht: February 24 - April 13, 2008
The exhibition 'The Human Habitat' focuses on the work of architect, designer, theoretician and Benedictine monk Dom Hans van der Laan (1904-1991). Read more...

 
Home

HOME
NAI Maastricht: February 24 - April 13, 2008
'HOME' is the title of an installation, featuring a secular variant of a monastery cell, by Christoph Seyferth which will be shown in parallel with the work of Dom van der Laan. Read more...

 
NAI ACTIVITIES  
Happening

HAPPENING PROGRAMME
March 1 - May 4, 2008
The happenings in and around an installation by architect Wiel Arets include concerts, theatre performances, interactive video projections, debates, dinners and performances. Check the happening website on happening.nai.nl

LECTURE BY CHARLES JENCKS: 'THE GARDEN OF COSMIC SPECULATION'
NAI Maastricht, Thursday, March 13, 2008 20.00 hrs
Unique opportunity to hear this flamboyant speaker Charles Jencks, US architecture critic, landscape architect and designer, who will give a lecture discussing his work, cosmic themes and the question of cultural identity. Read more...

LECTURE: UNSOLICITED ARCHITECTURE
NAI Rotterdam, Gallery 1 (as part of Happening), Thursday, March 13, 20.00 hrs
Lecture discussing the concept of 'Unsolicited Architecture', an idea articulated by Ole Bouman in Volume Magazine. Read more...

DEBATE: THE FUTURE OF ECOLOGICAL ARCHITECTURE
NAI Rotterdam, March 20 2008, 19.00 hr
With the growing consciousness of global warming, ecological architecture is a subject of much debate. This event, organised in collaboration with the Club of Amsterdam, focuses on the future of ecological architecture. Read more...

DEBATE CONTRAPOLIS
NAI Rotterdam, Thursday March 27, 20.00 hrs
Public debate on the subject of: "How is the contemporary urban experience defined, limited and transfigured by the creative city' policies and the 'experience economy'?" Read more...

 
NAI GUIDED TOURS  
Cuypers

GUIDED TOUR OF THE OPEN SCALE MODEL DEPOT
Sunday, March 30 2008
Last chance, for the moment, to visit the scale model collection of the NAI in the Van Nelle factory, illustrating the wealth of the architecture of the last three centuries including designs by K.P.C. de Bazel, H.P. Berlage, J.J.P. Oud, Van den Broek and Bakema, Jo Coenen and Rem Koolhaas. Read more...

 
ABOUT THE NAI  

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