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22 March 2023
Designers in the Archive: Bonne Reijn on Mien Ruys
What hidden stories from designers of the past are inspiring designers today? In this podcast Emily Wijns from Nieuwe In...
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Workwear in the collection
How did people dress for the architecture office, building site, factory and studio of the past? To mark the occasion of...
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Augustine Schreuder-Gratama: The Architect Who Never Was
Augustine Schreuder-Gratama (1897-1978) was one of a handful of female architecture students at Delft University of Tech...
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Cuypers 'XL' drawings for the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam
In a short film by Quinten Swagerman, Collection department team members unroll three immense drawings by architect Pier...
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Rietveld's Crate Furniture in Production
Under the name Rietveld Originals x HAY, the Crate furniture that Gerrit Rietveld designed in 1934 is once again in prod...
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A New City Archive for Milton Keynes
A team from the ‘New Town’ Milton Keynes in the UK visited Het Nieuwe Instituut as part of current investigations into h...
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Curating Decay
During the first phase of the Disclosing Architecture programme, filmmaker Marit Geluk made Curating Decay, a documentar...
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Understanding Digital Architecture
To foster a better understanding of digital architecture, we conducted research into the digitisation of the design proc...
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Herman Hertzberger through the eyes of Johan van der Keuken
IThe Nederlands Fotomuseum in Rotterdam presents a retrospective of the work of photographer and filmmaker Johan van der...
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Re_Making
_Retake _shows the unexpected and colourful results; the 'happy accidents' of the digitisation process.
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Green in the City #3 Museum Park
With the National Collection for Dutch Architecture and Urban Planning as a starting point, theatre and radio maker Naom...
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Van Eesteren and El Lissitzky’s Photogram
The collection contains an estimated 300,000 photo prints. The 1923 photogram, 4/i/Lampe Heliokonstruktion 125 Volt by E...
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