From paper to pixels: HNI exhibition “The Living Archive of a Studio” opens 6 November

Opening on November 6th at Het Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam, the exhibition MVRDVHNI: The Living Archive of a Studio looks back to the roots of MVRDV’s design philosophy. Centred upon three themes – “human”, “green” and “dream” – the exhibition traces the connections between the firm’s early projects and their more recent designs, taking visitors on a virtual journey through thirty years of work. The exhibition will be held on the sixth floor of HNI, overlooking one of the firm’s much-discussed recent designs, the Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen.

The first thing that springs to mind when you think of an architectural firm’s archive is a scale model, but MVRDVHNI: The Living Archive of a…