Van Doesburg’s architectural work is part of the National Collection, where it connects with collections of other architects, partners, contemporaries and kindred spirits, such as Cornelis van Eesteren, with whom Van Doesburg designed the Maison Particulière (1923), and Abraham Elzas, who worked on his drawings as an intern and later married Hermine Giefing, who would help Nelly with the interior design of the studio home in Meudon. Or Piet Zwart, who in 1937 photographed a group of prominent artists who were visiting Nelly.

The ambition of the curators of the exhibition was to forge new relationships within and between different archives, and so reveal undervalued or unseen aspects of the collection. Disclosing Architecture looks at archive collection from potential new perspectives, in order to provide new ideas regarding the way we value historical sources.