World culture: The exhibition “Architecture in Dutch. 1945-2000” in Saint-Petersburg

The exhibition “Architecture in Dutch. 1945-2000” opens on October 16, 2013 in the building of the General Staff of the State Hermitage Museum in Saint-Petersburg. 

“The architecture in Dutch” - is an exhibition not just about the history of Dutch architecture of the second half of the XX century. This project is one of the first attempts in a large scale exhibition project to distance itself from the very recent past and analyze the history of the architecture of the post-war period.

The materials from the collection of the Netherlands Architecture Institute (since 2013 - part of a new institution) reveal the diversity of these searches, starting from the period of reconstruction and finishing works of architectural firm OMA and Rem Koolhaas. An important part of the exhibition is devoted to the experiments of the famous international association - the “Group of 10”, utopias of the 1960s, the experience of the structuralists of the 1970s, and of course, the exhibition will show the work of “New Generation” of Dutch architects, created in the last decade.