NAI RENOVATION
Due to a renovation, the NAI building by architect Jo Coenen is currently almost entirely closed off to the public. The entrance area will be given a complete overhaul. Our library, bookstore, and Sonneveld House Museum are still open. The NAI building is expected to reopen halfway 2011. Look at renovation pictures in our Flickr Photostream or stay updated through Facebook.
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NAI 3D ARCHITECTURE APPLICATION FOR SMARTPHONES
The NAI and the Architecture Centre Amsterdam (ARCAM) have jointly launched the Amsterdam edition of the free 3D architecture application UAR (Urban Augmented Reality) on 11 November 2010. With UAR, your mobile phone gives you information about the built environment with text, image, archival material and film. The special feature of this application is that augmented reality enables you to see what the city will be like, was like, or might have been like in the past. > Read more...

NAI: ARCHITECTURE OF CONSEQUENCE
The NAI will continue Architecture of Consequence in 2011 with a new exhibition and publication. Do you know of a project we can't afford to miss? If so, send in details via the website architectureofconsequence.com. Deadline: Friday December 17, 2010, 8pm. > Read more...

NAI: AM NAI PRIZE 2010
This year the AM NAI prize -for the best building by a young architect in the Netherlands- is organized for the fifth time at the 10th of December. Besides a winner selected by a jury, the audience can vote for their favourite. Read more about the AM NAI prize and vote (until December 7th). > Read more...

DE STIJL IN PARIS
Exhibition, Centre Pompidou, Paris, December 1, 2010 - March 21, 2011
The Centre Pompidou in Paris will open a large-scale exhibition on the 1st of December on De Stijl and Piet Mondriaan. The NAI has loaned more than 100 items for this exhibition from the archives of architects such as Theo van Doesburg, Cornelis van Eesteren, J.J.P. Oud, P.J.C. Klaarhamer, Jan Wils and J.M.L. Lauweriks. > Read more...

RIETVELDS UNIVERSE
Exhibition, Centraal Museum Utrecht, October 20, 2010 - January 30, 2011
The exhibition Rietveld's Universe points out that Utrecht architect and designer Gerrit Th. Rietveld (1888-1964) designed much more than only the classic red-blue chair. Rietveld realized more than one hundred buildings and many pieces of furniture. The exhibition is realized in collaboration with the NAI and can be visited until the January 30th 2011 in the Centraal Museum in Utrecht. > Read more...

MEDIATING AND UNITING IN URBAN DISTRICTS
Lecture, The Dépendance, Schieblock, December 2, 2010
Architect Wouter Veldhuis of the Amsterdam-based Must bureau for urbanism and architect Julian Lewis of the London-based bureau East are giving a lecture on December 2nd about the way in which the theme of social cohesion is translated in their design practice. Following their presentations the two designers will enter into discussion with Saskia van Stein, curator of the NAI. > Read more...