Gallery 3, Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAI)
'Follies only exist when they are seen. They are not meant to be inhabited
or as work environments, but only to provoke a reaction. Through their bizarre
styles, forms and stories, they act as masonry mirrors of the soul; without
a response from the passer-by, they do not exist'.
A folly may be described as an architectural experiment, a visually provocative,
poetical structure. The NAI will exhibit the 45 scale-models of follies,
nominated in the International Folly Contest Rotterdam. The changing nature
of Rotterdam harbour's "Heijplaat" area prompted visual artist Lowieke Duran
to organize this contest.
The Netherlands Architecture Institute will exhibit the fifty nominated
folly designs. A selection of these follies will be built at Heijplaat in
2007, Rotterdam's Year of Architecture. The exhibition is part of a project
aiming to provide a positive impulse to this transitional area.
For more information www.nai.nl
and www.follydock.com