Vera v Moč mesta, ki navdihuje.
… še posebej del razstave z naslovom Visionary Power je zakladnica idej, ki bi si jo vsekakor morali ogledati celotna nizozemska vlada, politiki in investitorji, po možnosti z navdihujočim vodstvom, saj je nestrokovnjaku še vedno precej težko razvozlati zemljevide, fotografije in načrte.
Marina de Vries, Volkskrant, 26. maj 2007

Uprava rotterdamskega bienala je povabila Inštitut Berlage, naj bo kustos letošnjega tretjega mednarodnega arhitekturnega bienala v Rotterdamu. Po nekaj več kot letu dni intenzivnega iskanja, delavnic z udeleženci razstav, zbiranja sredstev in izpopolnjevanja odnosov z javnostmi je bil bienale z naslovom Power – Producing the Contemporary City odprt 24. maja in bo na ogled vse do 2. septembra v kultnem rotterdamskem Kunsthalu. Bienale je uradno odprl župan Rotterdama Ivo Opstelten, priložnostne govore pa so imeli Edi Rama, župan Tirane, Herman Hertzberger, ustanovitelj Inštituta Berlage, ter Vedran Mimica, direktor inštituta in glavni kustos bienala. S povabilom Inštituta Berlage, ustanove namesto enega kustosa (Francine Houben, 2003, in Adriaan Geuze, 2005), je uprava najverjetneje anticipirala široko razprostranjeno področje urbanih raziskav, ki jih je inštitut doslej vzpostavil, zelo operativno mrežo raziskovalcev, večinoma bivših študentov inštituta, ter organizacijske in produkcijske sposobnosti ustanove.
V pričujočem prispevku bomo predstavili samo en vidik bienalskega dogajanja, in sicer razstavo Visionary Power. Ta razstava morda najbolje odraža recentno stanje v razvoju Inštituta Berlage in skozi položaj kustosa, vsaj upamo tako, jasno govori o specifičnih vrednostih arhitekturnega delovanja prihajajoče generacije arhitektov. 
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“Inspiring belief in the Power of the City”
Visionary Power in particular is a treasure room of ideas that should be a must-visit for the whole ... preferably under inspired guidance, because of the ... maps, photos, and plans.
Marina de Vries, Volkskrant, 26 May 2007

The Board of the International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam (IABR) invited the Berlage Institute to curate the 3rd IABR of 2007. After a little over a year of intensive research, workshops with exhibitors, fund raising and public relations exercises, the biennale entitled “Power – Producing the Contemporary City” opened in Rotterdam Kunsthal on 24 May and will close on 2 September. The opening speech was delivered by Rotterdam Mayor Ivo Opstelten, followed by Edi Rama, Mayor of Tirana, Herman Hertzberger, the founder of Berlage Institute and Vedran Mimica, the Institute’s director and the Biennale’s head curator.
By inviting an institute instead of an individual curator (such as Francine Houben in 2003 and Adriaan Geuze in 2005), the Biennale’s Board seems to have counted on the wide range of urban studies carried out by the Berlage Institute, on its operative research network, dominated by the Institute’s former students, and its organisational and production potential.
This article focuses on a single aspect of the Biennale, that is, on the exhibition entitled “Visionary Power”. This exhibition seems to best reflect the current state of development of the Berlage Institute and hopefully to promote the specific values of the new generation of architects, with a little help from its curators.
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