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Built Homecoming

The house of Aldo and Hannie van Eyck

'Built Homecoming' presents the house of Aldo and Hannie van Eyck through a series of vitrines. These eight display cases capture special corners of the house, including the objects that populate these places. Through an arrangement of selected films, interior images, archival ma ...

Draw Love Build

Sauerbruch Hutton Retracing Modernities

Developed for the Akademie der Künste in Berlin, this twin exhibition presents around 60 projects by the Berlin-based architectural team Sauerbruch Hutton and allows them to enter into conversation with selected documents of architectural history from the Baukunst Archiv of the A ...

Addressing the Audience

Jaap Bakema and City Exhibitions

This paper examines the case of Jaap Bakema (1914-81) as a precursor to participation and co-creation processes in city planning. Besides his architectural practice and prolific teaching, Dutch architect and Team 10 figurehead Bakema was deeply engaged in creating exhibitions to ...

Queer Encounters in the Archive

Misplaced Love Letters and Autobiographical Homes

The chapter contains a report of the ongoing research into queer voices and architecture at the Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam, which holds the National Collection of Dutch Architecture and Urban Planning. After introducing the National Collection, the authors critically examine h ...

Queer Scenographies

From the 'Obscene' to Care and Repair

A critical discussion of contemporary exhibition design in relation to diversity and inclusion policies of museums and heritage institutions, as part of the NWO sponsored Smart Culture project: The Critical Visitor, Intersectional Approaches for Rethinking & Retooling Accessibili ...

The House Gone Missing

The Digital Turn and the Architecture of Dwelling

The digital turn in architecture seems to have displaced the house as a paradigm for architectural theory. Omitting the house, and with it, housing and dwelling as key sites for the reconstitution of the discipline, recent theorisations of the digital in architecture have almost ...
Bespreking van de tentoonstelling en prijsvraag van de Prix de Rome. Met als titel Healing Sites vroeg de jury van de Prix de Rome architectuur 2022 om een reflectie op niets minder dan de rol en medeplichtigheid van de architectuur in de massale vernietiging van ecosystemen als ...

Looking Back, Looking Ahead

Ten Years Jaap Bakema Study Centre

Introduction to the proceedings of the tenth annual conference of the Jaap Bakema Study Centre 'Architecture Archives of the Future', including a brief overview of the first decade of the research collaboration between the Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam and the Faculty of Architec ...
A critical discussion of the historical avant-garde, De Stijl and the work of Theo van Doesburg and its reception and re-interpretations through the years. For the occasion of an art installation at the Centraal Museum in Utrecht by the artist Antonis Pittas.@en

Open Building and User Agency

Early and Contemporary Experiments in the Netherlands

This chapter discusses the notion of ‘Open Building’ through its conceptualisations and implementations in the Netherlands since the 1960s until today. It focuses on the place of dwellers’ agency in the development of residential open buildings to investigate the potential of use ...
A discussion of the interrelations between post-war Brutalism and Picturesque revival in the work of Alison and Peter Smithson, in response to the conference question of urban design urgencies of today, most notably the question of city repair.@en
Introduction text to the conference proceedings laying out the main questions around contemporary research in relation to digital archives, digitizing paper archives and new developments in AI and public outreach (exhibitions, websites and new formats).@en
A discussion of the ground breaking teaching activities of the Dutch architect Jaap Bakema (1914-1981) at various institutions around the world.@en
Introduction to the proceedings of the VIII annual conference of the Jaap Bakema Study Centre, 'The Observers Observed'@en
Contribution to the reader The Turn of the Century, published at the occasion of the exhibition of the architecture office Sauerbruch Hutton, in M9 in Mestre, Venice.@en
The text presents a discussion of possible connections between the ideas of Erik Rietveld and concepts of relationality and materiality in modern architecture, with a special focus on Dutch Structuralism and the New Brutalism.@en
A reflection on the impact of the Covid pandemic on architecture and urban spaces. @en
Introduction to the conference and its relation to the research programme of the Jaap Bakema Study Centre, the special research collaboration between TU Delft and Het Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam@en
Short entry describing the Smithsons design for the landscaping of the Robin Hood Gardens estate, to the volume dedicated to 20th century gardens and landscapes in the United Kingdom@en
A short explanation to the archival selections from the national collection of Het Nieuwe Instituut, which focuses on historical examples of interdisciplinary exchanges between architecture, planning, ecology and system theory.@en