TREASURY OPENING: NAI COLLECTION HIGHLIGHTS PERMANENTLY ON DISPLAY
The NAI, which houses one of the largest architectural collections in the world, will open a new permanent exhibition of its masterpieces on September 10. Works will be on display in the NAI Treasury by icons of Dutch architectural history such as Cuypers, Dudok, Rietveld and Koolhaas. The new exhibition was designed by architecture agency OMA. The Treasury completes the new NAI, museum of architecture.
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NAi AND VANKE SIGN LOW COST HOUSING AGREEMENT
The NAI and the Chinese project developer VANKE signed an agreement on 29 August in Beijing to cooperate in the field of social housing. The agreement also provides scope for cooperation in other fields. Ole Bouman, director of the NAI, and Mao Daqing, vice-president of VANKE, signed the agreement in the presence of the Dutch State Secretary Halbe Zijlstra.
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DUTCHVILLE
On July 1, the exhibition Dutchville went 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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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 at the Hands-on Deck in the Netherlands Architecture Institute, 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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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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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 presents the most prominent 8 of them. One by one they will show their eye-catching and sometimes highly controversial projects.
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ON LOCATION: THE GOOD CAUSE
The exhibition The Good Cause: Architecture of Peace, on display since June 16 in the Octagonal Gallery in Montreal, Canada investigates the potential of architecture when it comes to transforming urban post-conflict areas.
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September 8 | ARCHITECTS TALK: JO NOERO
In the first Architects Talk of this season the leading South African architect Jo Noero from the Cape Town- based office Noero Wolff Architects will give a lecture about his design practice. He will show his design approach through two of his projects, the multiple-award winning Red Location Museum in Port Elizabeth and the Inkwenkwezi Secondary School in Cape Town which is also shown in the exhibition Testify!
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