The Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAi) is both a museum and cultural center. It is the first place we’ll visit inside Rotterdam’s Museumpark.  Designed by Jo Coenen, the NAI is an important library of architectural archives, publications, and exhibits. It is an impressive research facility as well as a forum for lectures and symposiums. It would be awesome to come to work here every …
Work Hard, Play Harder
 There’s a local expression here loosely translated to “you make money in Rotterdam, divide it at the Hague, and spend it in Amsterdam.” Whereas Amsterdam is the cultural epicenter and the Hague more or less a government seat of the Netherlands, Rotterdam is this country’s no-nonsense, worker-bee kind of city. It’s my kind of town. But on this day, when there’s a summer …