Book launch The NAi Effect in Het Nieuwe Instituut

In The NAi Effect, Sergio Figueiredo elegantly elucidates the social and cultural aims of architecture museums – arguably the most significant institutions in creating architecture culture as well as directing architectural discourse and practice. By providing a critical survey of the history and the legacy of the Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAi), Figueiredo provides insights to how cultural policy works in practice and how specific national cultural institutions relate to a fast changing global context. This book is a probing study of one of the most important architectural institutions in the world as well as a critical analysis of a fundamental instrument for architecture’s advancement and dissemination since their inception in the early nineteenth century.

At the book launch, architectural historian prof.dr. Bernard Colenbrander (TU Eindhoven) introduced the subject by delving into the long history of the architecture museum and its predecessors. Author Sergio Figueiredo then introduced his book, followed by a public conversation between the two moderated by Lennart Booij.