Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAI)  January 27 - May 6 2007
Cities today bathe in light. Artificial light has brought about a major change in the way we experience the city: the night has come to life. The exhibition "Architecture of the Night - Luminous Buildings" shows how over the last hundred years the use of artificial light has changed the way we design and build as well as how we experience the built-up environment at night.

The exhibition "Architecture of the Night " presents the history of artificial light in architecture as well as raising the current issues connected with its use. The NAI hopes that this exhibition will stimulate the public to reflect again on how light can play a role in the design of a building, a city district, or a whole city. Illuminated models in a dark space occupy a special place in the exhibition. There are also unusual works of art, lighting designs, classical and modern night photographs of buildings and boulevards, and collages of by "night" postcards.

The exhibition "Architecture of the Night" is the result of cooperation with the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart and Dietrich Neumann. The exhibition is sponsored by Philips.