Design Reads: A Closer Look At The Influence Of Vitra
Photographer Iwan Baan provides a tour of these structures via a 68-page gallery of images. Of course, the campus features the Vitra Design Museum, which began in 1986 as a showcase of the younger Fehlbaum’s mid-century furniture collection and has since become a leading design institution, partly due… Continue reading
Why Steve Jobs’s Widow Built a Hurricane‑Resistant Timber School in the Caribbean | Wood Central
Laurene Powell Jobs and the XQ Institute are behind Bridgetown’s new Oceana Innovation Hub, the first of a three‑building mass‑timber campus now making waves across the Caribbean and around the world.Designed by Michael Murphy, founder of AMMA, the cross‑laminated timber and glulam building uses a “pyramidal, or many‑angled, roof design,… Continue reading
Spring 2026 public programming: Planetary Imaginaries – Announcements – e-flux
From January 23 to February 20, 2026, Dutch architecture and documentary photographer Iwan Baan will present the exhibition From Las Vegas to Rome in the Mebane Gallery of Goldsmith Hall. From Las Vegas to Rome explores dialogues between these cities through images taken by Baan, one of the most prolific photographers active today. This exhibition looks at Las Vegas—and… Continue reading
Bread and Circuses Rome – Las Vegas – castello books
Baan’s observations of both cities are cleverly arranged: after an introduction with juxtapositions – Rome on the one hand, Las Vegas on the other – longer photo essays follow, each dedicated to one city or the other. People occupy both cities and populate the urban space. Life and… Continue reading
An Art Collector’s Vision Set in Rock in Millbrook, N.Y. – The New York Times
The crowning achievement, however, might be his new 4,500-square-foot house, which is embedded within a rock outcropping that towers over a pond and paths running through the rolling landscape. Designed by the New York-based architecture firm Solid Objectives Idenburg Liu, or SO-IL, it is the culmination of more… Continue reading
The End of Naturalia at the 7th Lisbon Architecture Triennale – Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology – Portugal
In Petroleum, Iwan Baan shifts the observer’s attention to the vast bitumen extraction operations in Alberta, Canada, territories usually perceived merely as “resources to be exploited” rather than places with their own material and political histories. The photographic series functions almost as a vertical archaeology of the technosphere:… Continue reading
Lina Ghotmeh on Luis Barragán’s Capuchin Convent Chapel | Wallpaper*
Asked about a building that made her smile, Lina Ghotmeh – one of three Architects of the Year at the 2026 Wallpaper* Design Awards – discusses Luis Barragán’s Capuchin Convent Chapel and more Source: Lina Ghotmeh on Luis Barragán’s Capuchin Convent Chapel | Wallpaper*… Continue reading
From Las Vegas to Rome | Iwan Baan | School of Architecture
This exhibition explores dialogues between Las Vegas and Rome through images taken by Iwan Baan, one of the most prolific photographers active today. Opening January 23, this exhibition runs until February 20. An opening lecture will take place at the Harry Ransom Center Prothro Theater at 4 pm… Continue reading
TSOA / Lecture Series
The School of Architecture, in partnership with the Taliesin Institute, is excited to share a special Lecture Series event featuring renowned Dutch photographer, Iwan Baan, who will share his recent works.Wednesday, January 21st, 2026Reception at 5:30pmLecture at 6pmTaliesin West Music Pavilion12621 N Frank Lloyd Wright BlvdScottsdale, AZ 85259… Continue reading
Top 12 exciting architecture projects expected to open in 2026
Designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Peter Zumthor, the 900-foot-long (274.32-meter) horizontal building (the photo above) spans Wilshire Boulevard and will house LACMA’s highly anticipated David Geffen Galleries, one of the most awaited buildings set to open in 2026. Source: Top 12 exciting architecture projects expected to open… Continue reading
Carlo Ratti on Ensamble Studio’s Can Terra, Menorca
ON A RECENT TRIP to the Spanish island of Menorca, I chose to stay not in a sleek hotel or a whitewashed finca, but in a cave called Can Terra. The choice felt appropriate: The Balearic island is dotted with remnants of the Talayotic civilization, whose settlements took… Continue reading
Studio MAD, the Fenix museum in Rotterdam | Abitare
On a wharf in the port of Rotterdam, the Chinese practice MAD pays homage to the human adventure of migration with the FENIX Museum, a new dynamic and gleaming landmark Source: Studio MAD, the Fenix museum in Rotterdam | Abitare… Continue reading