Rotterdam

IABR and NAI on the Fu­ture of the City
The main ex­hi­bi­tion at the 4th In­ter­na­tio­nal Ar­chi­tec­ture Bi­en­nale Rot­ter­dam, Open City: De­si­gning Co­exis­tence, is the pro­duct of an in­tense col­la­bo­ra­tion bet­ween the IABR and the Nether­lands Ar­chi­tec­ture In­sti­tute (NAI), and re­pres­ents the heart of the 4th IABR. Both or­ga­niza­t­i­ons are working to­ge­ther on the sche­du­ling and or­ga­niza­t­ion of the Open City Event Pro­gram, a con­ti­nuous pro­gram fea­turing lec­tu­res, film scree­nings, de­ba­tes, pre­sen­ta­ti­ons, work­shops, con­fe­ren­ces, and tours, which will be held at the NAI throughout the du­ra­tion of the Bi­en­nale.
George Brug­mans, Di­rec­tor of the IABR: “Architecture is about more than just ar­chi­tec­ture alone, and the IABR and the NAI see eye to eye when it comes to this im­portant ob­ser­va­tion." The IABR and the NAI both em­pha­size the need for re­ne­wed po­li­ti­cal and so­cial…period: 2009-09-242010-01-1024.09.2009–10.01.2010

Kees Christiaanse (curator)
The theme of the 4th In­ter­na­tio­nal Ar­chi­tec­ture Bi­en­nale Rot­ter­dam is the Open City, a city that is di­verse, li­vely and so­ci­ally sustainable, where people can pro­duc­tively re­late to each other cul­tu­rally, so­ci­ally, as well as eco­no­mi­cally.
More spe­ci­fi­cally, with the theme Open City: De­si­gning Co­exis­tence, the 4th IABR rai­ses the ques­tion of so­cial co­he­sion in the city from the point of view of its de­si­gner: how can ar­chi­tects and ur­ba­nists make rea­lis­tic cont­ri­bu­ti­ons to the sustainable qua­lity of the urban con­di­tion.
With three ex­hi­bi­ti­ons, a uni­que col­la­bo­ra­tion with a pu­blic broad­cas­ter and an ex­ten­sive side pro­gram of lec­tu­res, film scree­nings, de­ba­tes, work­shops, an in­ter­na­tio­nal mas­ter class and other events, the fourth edi­tion of the In­ter­na­tio­nal Ar­chi­tec­ture Bi­en­nale Rot­ter­dam (IABR) em­bra­ces the theme of the Open City, a city that…period: 2009-09-252010-01-1025.09.2009–10.01.2010