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14 December 2017

WORK, BODY, LEISURE Commissioned exhibitors and selected projects for the extended program of the Dutch Pavilion

Het Nieuwe Instituut, the commissioner of WORK, BODY, LEISURE, the official Dutch contribution to the Biennale Architettura 2018, announces the commissioned exhibitors at the Rietveld Pavilion in the Biennale's Giardini, and selected projects for the extended program.

8 December 2017

Collages and screen prints by Gerard van Zeijl

Het Nieuwe Instituut has recently acquired the archive of Gerard van Zeijl (1940-2017), former professor at Eindhoven University of Technology. In addition to documentation relating to his design practice and teaching career, the archive also features fine art, including several surprising collages and screen prints from the period 1963-78.

8 November 2017

Cities of Making

On 27 October 2017, Het Nieuwe Instituut hosted a consortium meeting of Cities of Making, a European project asking the what, where, and how of 21st-century urban manufacturing. Het Nieuwe Instituut is one of the partners collaborating with the Department of Urbanism of the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, TU Delft, in envisioning what the spatial conditions of re-industrialization might look like in the cities Brussels, London, and Rotterdam.

2 November 2017

Domestic Institutions

Marina Otero Verzier, head of Het Nieuwe Instituut's Research department, is teaching an [architectural design studio](https://www.rca.ac.uk/schools/school-of-architecture/architecture/ads-themes-201718/ads8-domestic-institutions/) (ADS8) as part of a collaboration with [Manifesta](https://manifesta.org/), in conjunction with Ippolito Pestellini (OMA), who is also creative mediator of Manifesta, and Anna Puigjaner of the Royal College of Art, London.

1 November 2017

'Living as Urban Roof' on display in the Rijksmuseum

A 'wonderful chaos', liveliness and a broad range of opportunities for bumping into your neighbours. Architect Piet Blom was one of the most ardent champions of this idea. He elaborated it in a series of drawings, models and brochures entitled 'Living as Urban Roof', an investigation of a new community model, integrating all the functions of urban living. A selection of drawings from this series is on display in the Rijksmuseum from 9 November.

31 October 2017

Deconstruction

This publication documents an intensive ten-week workshop programme in which students imagined the potential for reuse of the legacy of post-war modernist buildings as well as some iconic and didactic contemporary projects.

23 October 2017

Conservation of the photography collection

In 2016, Het Nieuwe Instituut began a long-term project to conserve the estimated 300,000 photographs in the collection of the State Archive for Dutch Architecture and Urban Planning. The first 50,000 photos have already been conserved and digitised.

19 October 2017

Life, Abstracted: Notes on the Floor Plan

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11 September 2017

Socio-plastics

Dirk van den Heuvel, head of the Jaap Bakema Study Centre at Het Nieuwe Instituut was in residency in fall 2017 at the Wimbledon House as one of the Richard Rogers Fellows.

11 August 2017

Research for the innovative design process of exhibition models.

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2 August 2017

Finders Keepers: collections from the archives

The exhibition Finders Keepers presents collections of valuable and worthless objects and the fascinating stories behind them.

30 July 2017

Scarcity is the mother of invention

The urban planning projects, buildings, interior objects and consumer goods in Designing Scarcity show that shortages don’t have to constrain creativity: quite the contrary.

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