Suprasensorial: Experiments in Light, Color, and Space
Catalogue for the Suprasensorial Exhibition at the MOCA, Los Angeles Hatje Cantz Publishers 2011 Suprasensorial: Experiments in Light, Color, and Space situates the pioneering experiments of Latin American artists within the larger international canon of artists working with light and space. Expanding the dialogue beyond the California tradition of the… Continue reading
ICON Magazine
Cover interview with Iwan Baan and a 2012 calendar of the projects from the past year Icon Magazine… Continue reading
Diller, Scofidio & Renfro: Institute of Contemporary Art Boston: Museum Building Guides
Ediciones Poligrafa 2011 The Institute of Contemporary Art, designed by Diller + Scofidio (now Diller Scofidio + Renfro), was the first new art museum to be built in Boston in a century. Opened in December 2006, the ICA is located on a small parcel of land on Boston Harbor and… Continue reading
No More Play: Conversations on Urban Speculation in Los Angeles and Beyond
Hatje Cantz Publishers 2011 In No More Play: Conversations on Urban Speculation in Los Angeles and Beyond, American architect Michael Maltzan traces the transformations that have taken place in the city of Los Angeles from the early nineties to the current state of a modern metropolis and its relationship with… Continue reading
Insular Insight – Where Art and Architecture Conspire with Nature
Lars Müller Publishers 2011 The islands of Naoshima, Teshima, and Inujima in Japan’s Seto Inland Sea are places of pilgrimage for friends of contemporary art and architecture. Alongside works in public spaces and site-specific installations, the islands also feature numerous museums and collections of contemporary art. They are home to… Continue reading
Iwan Baan, Around the World
Catalogue for the exhibition in Villa Noailles, Fance For the first time one may follow Iwan Baan, step by step, a nomad on his endless wanderings around the architectural planet and grasp for oneself this new architectural reality. This photographic testimony is presented like a personal diary… Continue reading
MAXXI: Zaha Hadid Architects, Museum of XXI Century Arts
Skira Rizzoli 2010 MAXXI supersedes the notion of the museum as ‘object’ or – presenting a field of buildings accessible to all, with no firm boundary between what is ‘within’ or ‘without.’ Written by Zaha Hadid Architects Text by Joseph Giovannini Photographed by Iwan Baan Pub Date: September… Continue reading
Hamsun, Holl, Hamaroy
Lars Müller Publishers 2010 Steven Holl has set up a documentation centre for the Norwegian author Knut Hamsun (1859 –1952) on Hamarøy, in northern Norway. This unconventional building reflects the author’s no less unusual personality. The centre in the barren landscape of Hamarøy, where Hamsun lived and worked, the silence… Continue reading
Brasilia – Chandigarh: Living With Modernity
In 1960, Brasilia was celebrated as the realization of an urban planning vision based on designs by Lúcio 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… Continue reading
Richard Neutra in Europe – Buildings and projects 1960 – 1970
Dumont Buchverlag 2010 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… Continue reading
The Maddalena Effect: An Architectural Affair
Rizzoli 2010 Designed and built in only 15 months, the restructuring of the former Arsenale at La Maddalena in Sardinia, was initiated with the purpose of hosting the 2009 G8 Summit, the scope of work included reclaiming and rebuilding an abandoned and contaminated site of 155 thousand square meters. The… Continue reading
SANAA: Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2009
Walther König, Köln 2010 An ongoing program of temporary structures designed by internationally acclaimed architects, The Serpentine Gallery Pavilion commission was conceived by the institution’s director, Julia Peyton-Jones, in 2000, and is unique worldwide. The Pavilion for 2009 was designed by Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, of the leading Japanese… Continue reading