Reality Machines
Our projects Circle Path and Me, Myself and You have been selected for the exhibition Reality Machines, Mirroring the Everyday in contemporary Dutch Architecture, Photography and Design This is the first time the Netherlands Architecture Institute has shown the work of young Dutch architects, industrial and graphic designers, photographers and fashion designers in the same exhibition. They are connected by their minimal, pragmatic, critical and often ironic reinterpretation of our everyday reality. At first glance, the resulting images and objects seem readily recognizable. On closer scrutiny, however, they show subtle deviations from normality. The exhibition travelled from Rotterdam to Warsaw.
Simply Droog
The Simply Droog exhibtion features 10+1 years of innovative design. Among the selected projects are the NEXT Fences and the Ready Made bookshelf by NEXT architects. The exhibition made a world wide tour and has been on show at Munich, New York, Lausanne and Curitiba.
Thuisfront
By the occasion of the Amsterdam Design Fair 2004 edited by Elle, NEXT architects has been invited to show a selection recent interior projects.
Dutch Architects in Booming China
The Arcam exhibition Dutch architects in Booming China, presents more than 80 projects which are lavishly illustrated and described in detail. Together, they present a fascinating and unique picture of Dutch design energy for China. Among the State Television in Beijing (Rem Koolhaas, OMA), Guang Dong Museum in Guangzhou (UN Studio), Sleeping Dragon in Hong Kong (Atelier Dutch) the exhibition features five recent projects by NEXT architects as Xintian International Kindergarten, Luiming pavilion and Watchdata.
Tomorrows Elite?
Tomorows Elite? Young architects, 20 years after. Fourteen young architects (offices) presented their designs, method of working and visions at the ARCAM gallery in Amsterdam. This selection is expected to contribute substantially to the development of architecture in the coming 20 years. Blue Architects, daf-architecten, GroupFor Architecture, Architectenbureau Micha de Haas, Architectenbureau K2, Atelier Kempe Thill, krill, MADE Architecten, Maurer United Architects, Next Architects, Onix, Pero Puljiz + Branimir Medic, S333 and Wingender Hovenier Architecten presented themselves.
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Architecture Bi-annual Rotterdam 2003
NEXT architects collaborated with Kossmann & de Jong for the central exhibition on Mobility at the Netherlands Institute for Architecture. Among other things NEXT architects developed an enormous world map featuring the world wide density of mobility and a video portrait of Tokyo: trains are another room for your life.
Intimacy Firenze
Several projects are displayed within the intimate space of a lampshade. The projects explanation is printed on the inside.
Het aanzien van Nederland in 2030
In the final stage of the competition around the future development of the Netherlands, NEXT was one of last four competitors. To exhibit the visionary project “Land of layers” a 15 meter long section of the Netherlands was made, with little spy holes in it through which the future was visible.
Groepsportretten 2000
Under the name ‘Group portraits’, an overview of four emerging practices was made. NEXT architects was one of them. In two locations, Almere and Nijmegen, work was shown and studies were done into the development of new expansion areas of the two cities. NEXT designed one print of wallpaper that was shown in two places at the same time, in Nijmegen it was put up on the wall, in Almere we used the same amount of wallspace to wrap an object out of it. In this way Almere became the inversion of Nijmegen.
The Image of Metropolis
"The Image of Metropolis” exhibited a survey into the largest cities of the world, at the end of the millennium. The research was done by visiting 18 cities all around the globe in period of three month. The exhibition itself was at show in the NAi, Dutch architectural institute and travelled to south Africa, Kuala Lumpur and China.
