Baan Voyage | New York Review of Architecture
Baan Voyage In the twenty-first century, there is Iwan Baan, who brings yet another approach, one rooted in street photography. In his documentary projects, buildings aren’t represented as exalted individuals but as bodies among bodies. Baan captures structures when they aren’t looking, when they’re part of the crowd,… Continue reading
Iwan Baan on Dutch radio | NPO Radio 1
Hoera! De snelweg viert z’n honderdste verjaardag. Tenminste in Italië, want daar werd in 1924 de eerste snelweg aangelegd tussen Milaan en Verese. Vanuit Rome kreeg fotograaf Iwan Baan de opdracht om een eerbetoon aan de autostrada te maken. Hij vertelde erover in Villa VdB. Source: Eerbetoon aan… Continue reading
Jody Quon (Photo Editor: New York, The New York Times Magazine, more)
Print is dead (Long live Print!) podcast with New Yorker Photoeditor Jody Quon about the making of the Hurricane Sandy cover (listen at 37 min)… Continue reading
The Bosco Verticale, 10 years old, as told by Iwan Baan’s photographs – Domus
This year marks the 10th anniversary of the Vertical Forest, and to celebrate, Stefano Boeri Architetti has curated a monograph entitled Bosco Verticale, Morphology of a Vertical Forest.The book traces its history and highlights its design significance, with contributions from Beatriz Colomina, Emanuele Coccia and Paul Hawken, among… Continue reading
From a Blockbuster New Building in China to Reimagined Wallpapers From an English Castle, Here Are AD’s Discoveries of the Month | Architectural Digest
Yantai, an industrial city on the Yellow Sea in Eastern China, wanted to give a vast new beachfront development an icon. And who better to design it than OPEN Architecture, the Beijing-based firm that has already created some of the most original buildings in China? Those include UCCA… Continue reading
Italië, land van cultuur, architectuur en… snelwegen | Trouw
De snelweg is een Italiaanse uitvinding, die precies een eeuw oud is. Het Italiaanse snelwegennet vormt inmiddels ‘een dans met het landschap en de geschiedenis’, aldus Iwan Baan, de Nederlandse fotograaf die het van boven in beeld mocht brengen. Source: Italië, land van cultuur, architectuur en… snelwegen… Continue reading
SANAA in Sydney: a new publication exploring the architecture of Naala Badu at the Art Gallery of New South Wales
With its five essays richly illustrated with photo essays by Iwan Baan, SANAA in Sydney: The architecture of Naala Badu at the Art Gallery of New South Wales Check Price on Amazon, is a stunning book that takes readers behind the scenes of this ambitious vision, from… Continue reading
Pavillon Nicolas Ruinart in Reims – Sou Fujimoto Architects | Arquitectura Viva
Source: Pavillon Nicolas Ruinart in Reims – Sou Fujimoto Architects | Arquitectura Viva… Continue reading
From brutalist school to space-age church: the architectural oasis deep in Trump country | Architecture | The Guardian
The city’s many masterpieces, and the fascinating stories behind them, have now been brought together in a hefty tome, American Modern, authored by an architecture writer who grew up here. “I walked past the Saarinen church every day on my way to school,” says Matt Shaw, whose detailed text… Continue reading
One hundred years of highways at MAXXI in Rome: a journey through Italy on the move
A journey through images and archives In Rome, MAXXI celebrates a century of highway travel with the exhibition “Italy in Motion. Highways and the Future,” from Dec. 6, 2024 to Feb. 2, 20 … On the last terrace, 74 images taken by Dutch photographer Iwan Baan,… Continue reading
13 New Design and Architecture Books to Gift This Year
Fifty-two years after the canonical Learning From Las Vegas pushed the city’s dazzling main strip into the classrooms of architecture students, Rome — Las Vegas: Bread and Circuses presents the two cities through the eyes of Dutch architectural photographer Iwan Baan. There are no captions to tell you where… Continue reading
December 5, 2024 at 7:00 pm Opening Italy on the move Highways and future Edited by Pippo Ciorra with Angela Parente On the occasion of the centenary of the construction of the first motorway in Italy, the exhibition presents the history and future of this fundamental infrastructure. Historical… Continue reading