Jaap Bakema Study Centre
The Jaap Bakema Study Centre is a collaborative project of the Nieuwe Instituut and the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment of TU Delft. It initiates and undertakes research projects that result in exhibitions, publications, and public events, often in collaboration with third parties and within international networks. The Jaap Bakema Study Centre combines contemporary social issues with fundamental research and knowledge development in the field of the creative industry: design, culture and society.
The activities of the Jaap Bakema Study Centre are focused on opening the rich collection of the State Archive for Dutch Architecture and Urban Planning, which is managed by Het Nieuwe Instituut. This is achieved by research projects that operate on the intersection of fundamental historical-theoretic research and urgent societal questions. Research is clustered around a number of central themes: the Open Society, Structuralism, Total Space and Museology.