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Jo Coenen at the Nieuwe Instituut. Photo: Aad Hoogendoorn

11 October 2024

Jo Coenen’s Archive Acquired

On 10 October, architect Jo Coenen and the Nieuwe Instituut signed a deed of gift, officially transferring the archive of Jo Coenen & Co to the National Collection.

Futures of Spatial Design. Photo Tomas Mutsaers.

11 June 2024

Designing the Netherlands: A look back at a thought-provoking exhibition

A look back at the Designing the Netherlands exhibition, with over 30,000 visitors, a lot of media attention, tours and meetings.

Van den Broek en Bakema. Interior 't Hool housing, Eindhoven, 1961-1972. Collection Nieuwe Instituut, archive BROX 1307t9

22 March 2024

How To Live Together?

Here are some of the inspiring solutions to previous housing crises devised by architects throughout the 20th century.

Still from the film After the Future.

20 February 2024

After the Future

The architect’s responsibility for the quality of our living environment is one of the main themes of After the Future, a short film by Sven and Detlef Prince in collaboration with the Nieuwe Instituut.

Frans van der Werf archive. Photo Petra van der Ree.

14 February 2024

The Frans van der Werf Acquisition: Inspiration for today’s housing debate

Art magazine Metropolis M on the Nieuwe Instituut’s recent acquisition of Frans van der Werf’s photographs and drawings for the National Collection.

The edges of this stack of blueprints have been damaged by sliding and bumping. Blueprints, 1935, Nieuwe Instituut Collection, Bureaus Merkelbach, Elling & Karsten Archive, MELKt11.1b. Photo Johannes Schwartz.

11 December 2023

Design Drawings Damage Atlas

The Design Drawings Damage Atlas is a practical tool to help collection managers identify and classify damaged images in design drawings. You can download it here.

23 November 2023

Nieuwe Instituut and Netherlands’ Board of Government Advisors present 'Designing the Netherlands: 100 Years of Past & Present Futures'

Exhibition marking the 100th anniversary of the National Collection of Dutch Architecture and Urban Planning places the legacies of design and planning in dialogue with the needs of the present and future.

Black and white portrait of John Habraken behind a desk in an office, probably at TU Eindhoven.

15 November 2023

Jo Coenen remembers John Habraken

John Habraken died on 21 October this year. Architect Jo Coenen, a former student of Habraken, reflects on their collaboration and his significance for architecture.

Photo of the model, unfolded.

13 November 2023

Theo van Doesburg’s interior model on display at the Kunstmuseum

Theo van Doesburg’s 1926 model of the interior of Café Aubette will be on temporary display at the Kunstmuseum in The Hague.

Black and white photo of cinema interior

2 November 2023

Johannes Duiker in Museu Serralves in Porto

This autumn, the Serralves Museum in Porto, Portugal, is showing a large number of drawings and photos of the Zonnestraal sanatorium in Hilversum and the Cineac cinema in Amsterdam.

9 October 2023

100th Anniversary of Legendary De Stijl Exhibition

15 October marks exactly 100 years since the legendary De Stijl exhibition opened at Galerie L’Effort Moderne in Paris. It was the first group exhibition of artists from De Stijl.

J.P. Kloos. Juliana Hospital Terneuzen, 1954. Collection Nieuwe Instituut, KLOO ph639

8 June 2023

Archizond: exhibition about architecture and health

The buildings we live, work and spend time in affect our health. From 10 June, Nieuwe Instituut and partners present an exhibition at the Radboud University Medical Center in Nijmegen that explores the relationship between (healthcare) architecture, sustainability and wellness.

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