Architecture of Consequence shows that architecture can play a part in formulating solutions to widespread global problems, and help to build a more sustainable future. The NAI calls on designers, principals and policymakers to seize this opportunity and become a force for positive change. > Read more...
June 21 until August 1, 2010
Boszoom Solutions, Rotterdam (The Netherlands)
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The NAi is committed to change the current practice of international cultural excange in architecture. It chooses to identify opportunities and urgencies in some of the most transformative countries in the world, and matching Dutch architectural intelligence with them. The workshops in Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro were exemplary pilots in an increasingly intensive Dutch-Brazilian architectural friendship. > Read more...
Loud traffic is passing by aside and above us. Muscled men are excising, two of them preparing themselves for the boxing match. Prototype scale models are arriving by Volkswagen minivan. Three groups are working hard to finish their 1:1 designs on site. > Read more...
Four days into the workshop and the temperature is getting hot. Not just the outside temperature is rising, stress levels are hitting an all-time high. The workshop participants have to decide which designs are realistic on a one to one scale, and which are worth developing further on an architectural and/or urban scale. > Read more...
60 students and architects, 5 NAI tutors, 5 AA tutors, 5 computation experts and ONE boxing champion are ready to start micro revolutions. Micro revolution is a fascinating term; it is modest and ambitious at the same time. > Read more...
The NAI is utterly convinced that architecture has a great future. If only it can survive the present. Architecture's ability to shape a better world is a quality that has clearly been lost for a while, rendering architecture vulnerable to the whims of the day. But, says Ole Bouman (director NAI), the idea to reposition architecture as a force for social renewal and instrument to help solve burning issues is being embraced. > Read more...
Recycled Island, the design proposal conceived by WHIM architecture, is an innovative land reclamation strategy that takes the Dutch tradition of land-making further. > Read more...
Innovative designs for the future are easily dismissed as visionary and sometimes even castles in the air. Which might lead one to believe that here, in our glass NAI eerie in Rotterdam, our innovation agenda Architecture of Consequence is the stuff of daydreams. Nothing could be further from the truth. > Read more...
Watch the video made by DUS Architects and the Studio for Architecture of Consequence. > Read more...
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Footage from the workshop that the NAI, the Architectural Association School of Architecture London, and the Brazilian firm of architects SUBdV organized in Sao Paulo, shot by one of the attending students.
Read the interesting discussion on Alternet about 'vertical' farming. See also the follow up by Archinect. (Image: Pig City - MVRDV)
Call for projects from architectural students for the third annual Student Healthcare Design Award 2010. - Architects for Health is a non-profit organisation for architects, and anyone interested in the design and planning of healthcare facilities. The annual programme of activities promotes a better understanding of current issues in health planning and design and keeps members informed across the whole range of topics in the health sector.
Interview with Ole Bouman (director NAI) about Architecture of Consequence on Archinect, written by Orhan Ayyüce. Published: March 16, 2010.
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