General | Sara Handstede | 6 reactions | 04-08-2011
San
Franciscans this month will have the chance to hear their leading
mayoral candidates tackle an always-volatile topic in their town, the
built environment, in a special forum discussion. The
forum doubles as the opening event in the chapter's Architecture and
the City Festival. The theme is Architecture of Consequence, which is also the name
of a festival exhibition at the AIASF offices at 130 Sutter St. that
will pair socially themed work by local firms with similarly ambitious
projects from the Netherlands Architecture Institute.
General | Martine Zoeteman | 7 reactions | 24-06-2011
An advisory board consisting of the Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture (Fonds BKVB) and the Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAI) has selected three research proposals from the 44 projects submitted in response to the open call Studio for Unsolicited Architecture. The three proposals will be developed over the coming months, with the joint support of the NAI and the Foundation.
General | Martine Zoeteman | 0 reactions | 03-06-2011
On klatmagazine.com: Lukas Feireiss about the upcoming exhibition Testify! The consequences of architecture at the Netherlands Architecture Institute: "The idea was to give voice to those that are usually excluded from the debate on space and architecture."
Testify! Design voor de 'Eichbaumoper', architects: Raumlaborberlin - Photo: Rainer Schlautmann
General | Martine Zoeteman | 6 reactions | 18-05-2011
The ‘Education’ series offers an overview of design-related training courses that focus on how architecture and urban planning can help to solve (pressing) contemporary social issues.
In this feature: Master Urban Emergencies in Delft (The Netherlands).
Urban Emergencies in Haïti
General | Martine Zoeteman | 0 reactions | 13-05-2011
The ‘Education’ series offers an overview of design-related training
courses that focus on how architecture and urban planning can help to
solve (pressing) contemporary social issues.
In this feature: Master in International Cooperation: Sustainable Emergency Architecture in Barcelona (Spain).
Social cohesion | Martine Zoeteman | 8 reactions | 11-04-2011
Interview with Giulia Cugnasca about the Foundation Project as part of the Public Design Festival 2010 in Milan.
Foundation Project, Public Design Festival in Milan, 2010 - Photo: Hein Lagerweij
Stortplaats van Dromen is also collaborating in the 2011 edition of the Public Design Festival in Milan.
Social cohesion, Value creation | Martine Zoeteman | 1 reaction | 04-04-2011
The African continent is developing rapidly. Over half of the 1 billion Africans will be living in a city or its suburbs by 2025. Just like in the other cities of the world, African cities are struggling with issues such as waste disposal, housing shortages and spatial planning. How could Africa deal with these problems? A number of ideas are presented in the exhibition ‘Blueprints of Paradise’ and during the lecture evening at the NAI. 
Re-designing the Temporal Spaces
General | Martine Zoeteman | 2 reactions | 29-03-2011
On Monday 28 March 2011, TNT Post and the Netherlands Architecture
Institute (NAI) launched a series of stamps called ‘The City of the
Netherlands’ named after the NAI’s new permanent exhibition. The stamps
are graced by five visions of a future ‘City of the Netherlands’.
Social cohesion | Martine Zoeteman | 1 reaction | 28-03-2011
Interview with Angela Salchegger | Angela Salchegger about the FOUNDation Project as part of the activation project Lebendige Innere Hernalser Hauptstrae (LIHH project) during the Vienna Design Week 2010.
Foundation Project, Vienna Design Week 2010 - Photo: Kollektiv Fischka/fischka.com
Social cohesion | Martine Zoeteman | 0 reactions | 22-03-2011
Interview with Thomas Geisler | Thomas Geisler, one of the founders of the Vienna Design Week, talks
about the FOUNDation Project as part of Vienna Design Week 2010.
Foundation Project, Vienna Design Week 2010 - Photo: Kollektiv Fischka/fischka.com
Social cohesion | Martine Zoeteman | 0 reactions | 15-03-2011
Interview with Rikkert Paauw |
The design and construction firm Stortplaats van Dromen designs, builds and develops interiors, furniture, living spaces and (multi-disciplinary) projects and workshops among other things, in and about public space. In this interview, one of the founders, Rikkert Paauw, discusses their approach, using the Foundation Projects by way of example. This project illustrates a site-specific and investigative approach to design and public space, which leaves room for unexpected local input and cooperation.
Foundation Project, Milan - Photo: Hein Lagerweij
Energy | Emmy Van den Berg | 6 reactions | 24-02-2011
The Sahara Solar Breeder Project and the Sahara Forest Project both utilise the desert as a sustainable source of energy, food, raw materials and alternative fuels. This article explores the pros and cons of both approaches.
Sahara Forest Project
Food, Energy | Guest author | 3 reactions | 24-01-2011
By Dietmar Koering | Floating Permaculture is a polemic utopian statement by Dietmar Koering (Arphenotype), which explores creating a system in the North Sea to connect renewable energy, rainwater capture, natural ways of cleaning grey water, organic food production and re-circulating hydroponics.
Bathymetric Map of the North Sea
General | Ellen Smit | 10 reactions | 04-01-2011
The socially aware design mentality that Architecture of Consequence champions appears regularly throughout the history of architecture. Architects have traditionally expressed their vision of urban life in the future in both paper architecture and buildings. In the series ‘Collection of Consequence’, curators at the NAI discuss items in the collection that may prove interesting in the light of today’s design challenges. In this feature: the principal challenge in the nineteenth century.
A.L. van Gendt , Design for a Villa, ca. 1860. In: Album J.H. Leliman, 1862. Collection: NAi
Social cohesion | Guest author | 3 reactions | 30-12-2010
By Lama Sfeir | A personal statement by Lama Sfeir, architect and social activist, on the importance of pro-active design: “The world is full of opportunities for all of us to express our outrage in ideas and visions of a better way of living”.
The Rock Village, a self-sufficient eco-village for the disabled - By Lama Sfeir, M. Nassib el Solh, Ghassan Maasri, Marwan Rechmaoui
General | Martine Zoeteman | 0 reactions | 20-11-2010
The Netherlands Architecture Institute launched the Studio for Unsolicited Architecture (SUA) in October in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. The Studio creates opportunities for realising promising design ideas, bringing together designers, policymakers and the construction sector to work towards a better organised world. The first three Dutch projects will be described in detail on this website in the triptych ‘Launch SUA – Dutch portfolio’. Part 3 focuses on the project by Van Bergen Kolpa Architects: Park Supermarket.
The reviewers – Anne Hemker, Henk Ovink, Bart Schrijnen – comment on the plans. (Photo: Fred Ernst)
General | Martine Zoeteman | 4 reactions | 17-11-2010
The Netherlands Architecture Institute launched the Studio for Unsolicited Architecture (SUA) in Octobre in Rotterdam in The Netherlands. The Studio creates opportunities for realising promising design ideas, bringing together designers, policymakers and the construction sector to work towards a better organised world. The first three Dutch projects will be described in detail on this website in the triptych ‘Launch SUA – Dutch portfolio’. Part 2 focuses on the project by Rietveld Landscape: Trusted Subcultures - New Amsterdam Park (N A P).
Ronald Rietveld (Rietveld Landscape) presents the plan ‘New Amsterdam Park (N A P)’. (Photo: Fred Ernst)
General | Martine Zoeteman | 6 reactions | 15-11-2010
The Netherlands Architecture Institute launched the Studio for Unsolicited Architecture (SUA) in Octobre in Rotterdam in The Netherlands. The Studio creates opportunities for realising promising design ideas, bringing together designers, policymakers and the construction sector to work towards a better-organised world.
Rocco Reukema (2by4-architects) presents the plan ‘Living Above Industrial Premises’. (Photo: Fred Ernst)
General | Guest author | 0 reactions | 22-03-2011
By Ole Bouman | An introduction by Ole Bouman, director of the NAI, on the exhibition Vacant NL at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2010.
Vacant NL. Photographer: Rob 't Hart
Social cohesion, Value creation | Martine Zoeteman | 6 reactions | 22-11-2010
Interview with Urban Think Tank | Alfredo Brillembourg and Hubert Klumpner (Urban Think Tank, UTT) visited Rotterdam (NL) on Thursday 11 November 2010 for
a duo lecture with Jeanne van Heeswijk (Jeanne Works), organised by the
NAI. The editors of this website seized the opportunity to ask them for
their thoughts on the tangible effects of the UTT’s project ‘Metro
Cable’.
Photo: Iwan Baan
General | Ellen Smit | 1 reaction | 19-10-2010
The socially aware design mentality that Architecture of Consequence champions appears regularly throughout the history of architecture. Architects have traditionally expressed their vision of urban life in the future in both paper architecture and buildings. In the series ‘Collection of Consequence’, curators at the NAI discuss items in the collection that may prove interesting in the light of today’s design challenges. In this feature: Henri Evers (1855-1929) on social cohesion.
Evers
modelled the huge foyer of Rotterdam town hall on the Byzantine
central-plan style of architecture: NAI (loaned by the Municipality of
Rotterdam, Archief Stadsbestuur)
General | Guest author | 5 reactions | 10-10-2010
By Jaap Huisman | William MacDonaugh and Michael Braungart are calling for the widespread adoption of their cradle to cradle philosophy. Their visionary approach has been put into practice in Heerhugowaard, where it is restricted to solar panels and extra thick walls. And what does Dutch expert, Kees Duijvesteijn, think of the latest trend in architecture? 
Stad van de Zon (Heerhugowaard, NL)
Food, Value creation, Space | Martine Zoeteman | 2 reactions | 19-05-2010
Recycled Island, the design proposal conceived by WHIM
architecture, is an innovative land reclamation strategy that takes the
Dutch tradition of land-making further.
Recycled Island by WHIM architecture
General | Martine Zoeteman | 5 reactions | 17-05-2010
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.
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