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Transforming The Urbanized Landscape

The NAI Maastricht/Wiebengahal will be open to the public from March 5, 2005 until May 1, 2005.

The exhibition hall will then be closed until 2006 in connection with a major renovation. From the spring of 2006 onward, the NAI Maastricht/Wiebengahal will be open permanently.

The exhibition 'Transforming the urbanized landscape - about the work of Palmboom & van den Bout' is the first in a series of exhibitions on contemporary Dutch urban planning practices to be organized in the next few years by the Faculty of Architecture (Department of Urbanism) of Delft University of Technology. The aim is to provide an accurate picture of current trends in Dutch urban planning. The first exhibition comprises fifteen projects that show the relationship between urban planning and landscape design, a central feature of Palmboom & van den Bout's vision of the 21st-century city.

Urban planning innovators
Palmboom & van den Bout may be considered one of the most innovative urban planning practices in the Netherlands. The practice plays an important role in revolutionizing the discipline of urbanism. Their work has strong ties with the design culture that emerged in the Faculty of Architecture at Delft University of Technology in the 1970s and 1980s. Since that time, the various designers of that generation have demonstrated very different approaches in their subsequent professional development.

Urban planning, architecture and landscape design
Palmboom & van den Bout has assumed a very particular position within this spectrum, characterized by their continual research into new relationships between urban planning, architecture and landscape design. In this development, the practice has focused not so much on the relationship between urban planning and architecture / building typology as on the relationship between urban planning, landscape analysis, design and infrastructure.

City of the twenty-first century
The fifteen exhibited projects are representative of Palmboom & van den Bout's search for new relationships between urbanism and landscape design in the creation of the city of the 21st century.

Opening hours
Tuesday to Sunday: 11 a.m.-5 p.m.
Also on national holidays that fall on Mondays.

How to get there
The Wiebengahal is located next to the Bonnefanten Museum, in the center of Maastricht, 15 minutes' walk from Central Station.

Calendar
June 3, 2005 until January 9, 2006 - Kasteel Groeneveld, Baarn, NL

The Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAI) is spreading its wings toward Maastricht, where from March 5 onward it will present The Urbanized Landscape: three exhibitions in the Wiebengahal that focus on the design of the urbanized landscape. The Dutch submission to the 2004 Venice Architecture Biennale, Hybrid Landscapes, and The City As Loft about the work of architecture firm KCAP/ASTOC - Kees Christiaanse will be on display for the first time in the Netherlands, and Transformations of the Urbanized Landscape by the Delft University of Technology will present the work urban planning office Palmboom & Van den Bout.

For mode detail:
Agnes Wijers, Coordinator International Projects

Palmboom & Van den Bout's Web page: www.palmbout.nl

Address: Avenue Céramique Maastricht.
Tel: +31 (0)10 4401200
E - mail: [email protected].