Architecture of Consequence

20.02.2010 - 16.05.2010

Musempark 25 NAi 3015 CB Rotterdam, Netherlands

The international travelling exhibition Architecture of Consequence highlights a changing selection of the same urban designers included in the accompanying book. After Sao Paulo and Moscow, the exhibition has travelled to the NAi in Rotterdam. The designs that are presented are the fruits of an ambition to find sustainable designs for the future. The theme is expanded by exhibiting the selected designs in different scales.

Behind these words lurk realism and urgency but, most of all, dedication and optimism. Social transformation is impossible without an unconditional belief in progress. And thats exactly what we need right now. We are facing extraordinary challenges. Our attitudes to food, health care, energy, space, time, social cohesion and (economic) value have lost all sense of proportion. But there is still hope  we can redress the balance. In spatial planning, for instance, where so many of these issues converge and where architecture, of course, has a part to play. Architecture can offer solutions. Perhaps not to everything, but it can get a long way.Architecture of Consequence reveals how 24 Dutch bureaus integrate these global issues into their vision of society and their ideas for the Netherlands. Architecture must be more than functional and aesthetic  it must address and try to resolve the challenges we are facing today. With the world as their toolbox, these bureaus create new spatial, strategic, technical and social relations. And with this, they transform the discipline and set new social processes in motion with reality as their starting point, and change as a necessity.ith contributions by: 2by4architects, De Zwarte Hond, Doepel Strijkers Architecten, MVRDV, Studio Marco Vermeulen, West 8, CONCEPT0031, Anne Holtrop, Next Architects, seARCH, 2012 Architecten, Atelier Kempe Thill, biq stadsontwerp, MUST Urbanism, OMA / AMO, ONIX, Powerhouse Company, Rietveld Landscape, Stealth.ultd, Van Bergen Kolpa Architecten, Venhoeven CS, ZUS

Opening Hours:
Exhibition Galleries and Sonneveld House
Tuesday / Saturday: 10.00 / 17.00
Sundays and national holidays: 11.00 / 17.00
Closed on Mondays, January 1, April 30 and December 25
Opening hours during the holidays:

Good Friday: 10.00/17.00 hrs
Easter Sunday: 11.00/17.00 hrs
Easter Monday: 11.00/17.00 hrs
Liberation Day: 11.00/17.00 hrs
Ascension Day: 11.00/17.00 hrs
Pentecost Sunday: 11.00/17.00 hrs
Pentecost Monday: 11.00/17.00 hrs

Entrance Fees NAi:
Regular fees (including entrance to Sonneveld house):
Adults 8 euros
Children/youth up to 18 years of age free

Friends of the NAI free
Senior Citizens / Euro<26 Youth Card / students 5 euros
Rotterdam Welcome Card 5 euros
Rotterdam Pas free
Dutch Museumkaart free

Groups of 15+ persons 5 euros per person
Primary school classes 1 euro per person
Secondary school classes 2 euro per person

How to get there:
The Netherlands Architecture Institute is located in the centre of Rotterdam, at approximately 15 minutes walk from Rotterdam Central Station. The NAI is part of the Museum Park, and is located diagonally across from the Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum. The NAI can be reached by public transport by taking the metro (Eendrachtsplein station), tram lines 4 or 7 (Eendrachtsplein stop) or bus 32 (Rochussenstraat stop). There is a limited number of paid parking spaces at the NAI. There are parking garages at about five to ten minutes walk.