NAI OPENS JULY 1: FREE ENTRANCE DURING THE OPENING WEEKEND!
After an extensive renovation, the Netherlands Architecture Institute will reopen on July 1st 2011 as: NAI, museum for architecture. To celebrate its reopening, the NAI is treating everyone to free admission throughout the first weekend. From Friday, 1 July to Sunday, 3 July, a visit to the museum costs nothing at all – there can be no better reason to visit the NAI soon.
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EXPECTED: DUTCHVILLE
On July 1, the exhibition Dutchville goes on display in the fully renovated NAi. In a remarkable approach to architecture, Dutchville is an exhibition that intentionally inspires conflicting feelings. At the NAi, you can explore your love-hate relationship with the urban environment and discover how the city shapes and affects the way you feel.
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EXPECTED: HANDS-ON DECK
Architecture is closer than you think – and isn’t high-flown or difficult at all. Architecture is for everyone! Come and see for yourself from July 1st – the Hands-on Deck at the Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAI) is a unique spot at the heart of the museum, specially designed for anyone wanting to try their hand at architecture. You can design and construct your own building, or even an entire world. And the Hands-on Deck is completely free! .
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EXPECTED: TESTIFY
Over the 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.Can architecture help us to build a more sustainable society? 25 international projects by different architects, all concerned with addressing these issues, are presented in the exhibition Testify!
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EXPECTED: DARINGDESIGN
In terms of design, the Netherlands and China seem to be another’s opposite: the small pioneer for conceptual design versus the economic superpower. But daring designers live and work in both countries. Designers with ideas, designers with guts. With the exhibition daringdesign, the Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAI) in Rotterdam will present the most prominent 8 of them. One by one they will show their eye-catching and sometimes highly controversial projects.
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RIETVELD'S UNIVERSE
The exhibition Rietveld's Universe, a co-production of the Centraal Museum Utrecht and the Netherlands Architecture Institute, will run at the MAXXI (National Museum of the 21st Century Arts) in Rome from April 14 until July 10 2011.
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