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

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.

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.

Nieuwe Instituut is researching the legacy of garden and landscape architect Louis Le Roy (1924-2012), in response to the heirs’ request for advice on its preservation and management.

How did people dress for the architecture office, building site, factory and studio of the past? To mark the occasion of the Workwear exhibition, we searched the National Collection for working clothes. Here’s a small selection of all the tailor-made suits, fedora hats and dust jackets that we found.

Augustine Schreuder-Gratama (1897-1978) was one of a handful of female architecture students at Delft University of Technology in her day. Her life path seems typical of many other talented and motivated women whose work has remained virtually invisible.

Every Sunday on Instagram Collection, we will post an image of home from the photos in the National Collection. What makes an interior a home?

The exhibition Art on Display 1949-69 provided the occasion to research architects’ exhibition designs in the architecturecollection.

Spaces for Learning explored 150 years of experimentation and innovation in the design of educational environments using a broad selection of drawings and models from the collection.

The exhibition Dissident Gardens views the garden as the site where mankind's desire to control his environment clashes with his fascination for wild, untamed nature. Simultaneously, in the current era defined by digital technology and globalisation, gardens have become places of refuge and tranquillity. Dissident Gardens explores our relationship to nature today, the influence of technology and the role of the designer and architect. Technology and ecology have become interwoven, leading to a new understanding of the relationship between nature and culture.

The collection of the Nieuwe Instituut contains photographs, drawings and documentation of the stadium that Jan Wils built for the Amsterdam Olympics in 1928.

Some 1700 items from the archive of Piet Zwart have recently been digitised. Piet Zwart (1885-1977) was a leading figure in the modernist avant-garde of the 1920s and 1930s.