Invented from Copies
In addition to beautiful, museum-quality, hand-drawn 'original' designs, the National Collection for Dutch Architecture and Urban Planning contains an enormous number of copies and reproductions. Invented from Copies is a research project under the umbrella of Disclosing Architecture that examines an undervalued element of the archive collection: the architectural reproduction. Het Nieuwe Instituut explores how these reproduction techniques relate to the design process and to design culture. Invented from Copies therefore speculates on possible 'new' meanings of the copy as a cultural vector.
