Selected Publications & exhibitions

The New York Times: Structural Integrity and People, Too by Fred A. Bernstein - Januari 22, 2010

December 2011: Iwan Baan was named one of the 100 most influential people in contemporary architecture world by the magazine Il Magazine dell'Architettura on occasion of their 100th issue.

Brasilia - Chandigargh Living with Modernity
A visual tour through contemporary life in both cities, With commentary in the form of an essay by Cees Nooteboom on the photographs and by Martino Stierli on the architectural and planning history.
In 1960, Brasilia was celebrated as the realisation of an urban planning vision based on designs by Lucio Costa and Oscar Niemeyer. At the same time, the sectoral city of Chandigarh was rising according to plans by Le Corbusier. "The test tube city" arose as an export of modernity from a Western planning euphoria that displayed utopian traits. In both cities, foreign architecture entered into a harmonious relationship with indigenous culture, forming new and independent identities. This publication addresses the question of how modernism has been appropriated in both cities, and how the people who live in them deal with it. Commonalities and differences are identified and images of everyday urban life showcased.
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MAXXI: Zaha Hadid Architects: Museum of XXI Century Arts
A comprehensive volume on the MAXXI Museum located in Rome, with photographs by Iwan Baan Order Here> or at your local bookseller.

Hamsun, Holl, Hamaroy
Steven Holl has set up a documentation centre for the Norwegian author Knut Hamsun (1859 - 1952) on Hamaroy, in northern Norway. This unconventional building reflects the author's no less unusual personality. The centre in the barren landscape of Hamaroy, where Hamsun lived and worked, the silence and solitude, challenge visitors to involve themselves with him and his work. The book records the connection between Hamsun, the architecture and the landscape. Photographer Iwan Baan relates the landscape and the building to each other, and historical documents illustrate Hamsun's contradictory life and influential work, et al. the novel Hunger (1890), with which Hamsun achieved his fame. In 1920 the poet was awarded with the Nobel Prize for Literature.
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The book won the DAM architectural book award for best architecture book in 2010

Richard Neutra in Europe
Buildings and projects 1960 - 1970
From May 8-August 1, 2010, the exhibition Richard Neutra in Europe runs at the MARTa Herford Museum in Germany. Last year, Iwan Baan documented all of Neutra's projects in Europe, focusing on how the projects are being used by people today. The exhibition of photographs and architecture models shape a greater understanding of Neutra's cumulative vision in both completed and unrealized projects.

The SANAA Studios 2006 - 2008 Learning From Japan - Single Story Urbanism
Lars Muller Publishers - School of Architecture - Princeton university - edited by Florian Idenburg - buy the book at Amazon.
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Porsche Museum - Delugan Meissl Associated Architects - buy the book at Amazon.com Springer Verlag
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The New Yorker - To the MAXXI -December 21, 2009
John Seabrook, Profiles, "The Abstractionist," The New Yorker, December 21, 2009, p. 113

Iwan Baan Public Lecture at Harvard University GSD - "Architectural Photography and The Decisive Moment"
06:30 PM - 07:30 PM 10/27/2009 - Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall

The New York Times - A Cultural Heart for Big D - the Wyly Dallas - Cool or Classic: Arts District Counterpoints by Nicolai Ouroussoff.

The New York Times - Walking the Highline by Nicolai Ouroussoff.

The New York Times - COOPER UNION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE AND ART
The Civic Value of a Bold Statement by Nicolai Ouroussoff.

Exhibition: November 10 - December 12, 2008
Iwan Baan - Recent Works - Contemporary Architectural Photographs
ARCHITECTURAL ASSOCIATION - London

August 10 - September 28 2008
Art Design - Vivid Gallery Rotterdam
an exhibition about Art and Design and what is in between with Iwan Baan a.o.

Building China Five Projects, Five Stories
February 26 - May 31, 2008
Photography Iwan Baan
The AIA New York Chapter and the Center for Architecture Foundation in collaboration with People's Architecture and the AIA New York Chapter International Committee