The Museum of Modern Art unveils the plan for its expansion and redesign, which emphasizes diversity and chronology. Source: MoMA’s Makeover Rethinks the Presentation of Art

Last year, the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center, a 1.28 million-square-foot complex built into an artificial hill in Athens, was inaugurated to great fanfare. The building will provide two institutions, the National Library of Greece and the Greek National Opera, pristine new homes, and it is a significant addition to the Athens cultural landscape. Read the complete […]

Why devote an entire issue to the MASS Design Group? Not only is the nonprofit firm bringing architecture to communities in need, it’s piloting a profoundly more sustainable and ethical model of professional practice. Read the complete article in Architect Magazine… See also: Manifesto: The New Empowerment, Architect Magazine, May 16, 2017 Butaro Doctors’ Sharehouses, by […]

Architect Magazine did a special issue featuring all the work of MASS Design Group whose work Iwan Baan has been covering for the last 8 years or so. Michael Murphy and Alan Ricks of MASS Design Group have a vision for how architects can better serve their clients and communities by exploring and embracing the social […]

Photographer Iwan Baan traveled to Portman buildings around the United States, documenting his work in New York, Detroit, San Francisco, and, of course, Atlanta. The images reveal a humanism that’s lost in the Hunger Games films and the Walking Dead television series, which exposed Portman’s work to most of America. Lush shots of Entelechy I […]

Indian Institute of Architects’ Cochin chapter concludes its Living Monsoon series with a debate panel featuring Dr Ken Yeang, Philip Goad, Rahul Mehrotra, Kashef Chowdhury and other “starchitects” over the next two days in the southern Indian city. Iwan Baan participated in the panel of speakers. Read the complete article in Architectural Digest

By Clifford A. Pearson – Since early in his career, when he worked on construction sites and got hands-on experience with vernacular building methods, Wang Shu has drawn inspiration from traditional Chinese attitudes toward architecture’s place within the larger context of landscape. So he and Lu Wenyu, his wife and partner in Amateur Architecture Studio, were logical […]

By Jason Farago – Did you make it to the eighth episode of “The Young Pope,” the one which sees our saintly Jude Law bring his pontifical dog-and-pony show to a country called Africa? Astounding, in 2017, that you can still get away with this: the anonymous land ruled by a military dictator, where children […]