Reading Room
NAI Reading Room is a free, open space where you can browse a rich collection of architecture and related publications. It offers a continuously growing selection of books and periodicals, plus a place for work, meetings, lectures, and discussions.
The collection includes architecture books and journals, exhibition catalogues, architects’ monographs, theory and criticism, and etc. Holdings are regularly expanded with international and Lithuanian editions, as well as by recommendations from students and professionals.
- The Reading Room is open and free of charge.
- Readers do not need to register in advance.
- Publications are intended for on-site reading.
- Please search for the required book in the electronic catalog.
- Please leave publications on the table or return them to staff.
- Free wireless internet access is available in the Reading Room.
- Should you have any questions, please do not hesitate to ask!
The NAI also hosts public program events here, which aim to foster an intellectual, responsible, and critical tone in architecture. Priority is given to dialogue between Lithuanian and foreign architects and thinkers, encouraging evaluation and reflection on the current situation; it presents practices based on intellectually argued methodologies.
In the NAI Reading Room, we have already discussed with US-Lithuanian architect Kazys Varnelis, Pippo Ciorra, architecture curator at MAXXI, the National Museum of 21st Century Arts in Italy, Dr. Oxana Gourinovitch, researcher at RWTH Aachen University, the authors of the Lithuanian National Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale, various Lithuanian architects, and others.
