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. > Read more...

NAI SHOWROOM 2010
The NAI collection consists of a couple of million drawings, sketches, floor plans, photographs, letters and other documents, and more and more pieces are being digitised. Throughout the year, a special item from the collection was displayed for a week. View all of them in the showroom or at Facebook.
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NAI PHOTO COLLECTION ON FLICKR
The NAi manages a large collection of photographs. Some of them are now on Flickr. Enjoy more than 150 photos from between 1910 and 1930, picturing the highlights of Dutch architecture. > Read more...

DE STIJL IN CENTRE POMPIDOU
Exhibition, Centre Pompidou, Paris, December 1, 2010 - March 21, 2011
The Centre Pompidou in Paris opened a large-scale exhibition on De Stijl and Piet Mondriaan. The NAI has loaned more than 100 items 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
This exhibition is realized in collaboration with the NAI and still can be visited until January 30th in the Centraal Museum in Utrecht. 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. > Read more...

January 6 | ARCHITECT'S TALK: FAT & MUF
Lecture, The Dépendance, Schieblock
Architect Sean Griffiths of the London-based design practice FAT and architect Liza Fior of the London-based collaborative practice muf architecture/art are giving a lecture about the way in which the theme of social cohesion is translated in their design practice. > Read more...

January 20 | TEHRAN IN TRANSITION
Debate, The Dépendance, Schieblock
How has Tehran dealt with rapid urbanization and modernization, Islamic revolution, severe pollution and congestion in the twentieth century? Join architectural historian Wouter Vanstiphout and acclaimed Tehran expert Ali Madanipour in making sense of this complex metropolis full of ambiguity and contradiction. > Read more...

January 27 | SHARON ZUKIN
Lecture, The Dépendance, Schieblock
The acclaimed American sociologist Sharon Zukin, professor of sociology at Brooklyn College and the City University Graduate Center in New York, reveals her thoughts, expressed in her most recent book, 'The Naked City: The Death and Life of Authentic Urban Places'. Zukin will address how certain neighbourhood gentrification processes use the notion of 'authenticity' as an asset to generate economic growth, eventually resulting in the exclusion and stratification of original inhabitants. > Read more...