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...
Testify! The consequences of architecture
Lukas Feireiss has brought together about 30 examples from five
continents to literally present the proof of the ways architecture can
transform our everyday surroundings.
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Thousands of buildings in the Netherlands lie vacant. Some of them for a week or a few months, many even for years. During the twelfth Venice Architecture Biennale, the Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAI) and Rietveld Landscape highlighted the huge potential of all that temporarily unoccupied space in the exhibition Vacant NL, where architecture meets ideas. > Read more...
Now on view at the Netherlands Architecture Institute!
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. Is architecture able to play a part in restoring harmony? 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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This spring, the NAI Platform will be organising a series of lectures, debates and presentations in the context of the innovation agenda ‘Architecture of Consequence’. As one of the key themes, Time, and its relation to architecture in the broadest sense, will be explored in depth. > Read more...
The Studio for Unsolicited Architecture (SUA) creates opportunities for realising promising design ideas, bringing architects, policy-makers and the construction world together to create a better-organised world. > Read more...
The book 'Architecture of Consequence' shows how spatial planning and design can offer answers to societal crisis. > Read more...
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