Nieuwe Instituut
National institute for architecture and design, with a light-art arcade beneath its archive.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam starts beneath the building, in the long concrete arcade that carries the national architecture archive over the street. It follows the artist Peter Struycken, a pioneer of computer art since the late nineteen sixties, and the arcade Rotterdam handed him when Queen Beatrix opened the building in nineteen ninety-three. Along the way you will hear about the stamp that made a queen out of pixels. Best heard standing under the pillars after dusk.
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