Main entry:

Figueiredo, Sergio M., author.

Title & Author:

The NAi effect : creating architecture culture / Sergio M. Figueiredo.

Publication:

Rotterdam : Eelco van Welie, nai010 Publishers, [2016]

Description:

364 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-357) and index.
Foreword / Bernard Colenbrander -- Architecture in the gallery: the museum and the archive -- The construction of discourse: societies of architecture -- Museum or institute: between reflective and projective -- Towards an architecture institute -- Growing pains: the economics of architectural culture -- Beyond the NAi: architecture in the museum expanded field.

Summary:

"A critical review of the history and legacy of Dutch Architecture Institute (NAI) Figueiredo offers insight into how cultural policy works in practice and how specific national cultural institutions relate to the rapidly changing global context. An in-depth investigation into one of the most important architectural institutes in the world and a critical analysis of a phenomenon that has developed since its inception in the early nineteenth century, a fundamental instrument for the promotion and dissemination of architecture"--Publisher's website.

ISBN:

9789462083073 (hardcover)
946208307X (hardcover)

Subject:

Nederlands Architectuurinstituut.
Architectural museums.
Architectural museums Social aspects.
Musées d'architecture.
Musées d'architecture Aspect social.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 295727
Call No.: BIB 238928
Copy: c. 2
Status: Available

Location: Library main 293763
Call No.: BIB 238928
Status: Available