Speaking at Bauwelt Kongress: Memoirs from the City – About This Place, Recent Projects by Iwan Baan
Iwan Baan was one of the speakers on the Bauwelt Kongress 2016 in Berlin. ‘Memoirs from the City – About This Place’. Read more…… Continue reading
Faena Forum by OMA, Miami Beach, Florida
By Beth Broome – A Miami Beach vacation usually has more to do with the fulfillment of hedonistic pleasures than sating an appetite for the arts. But the Faena Forum, a cultural center designed by OMA New York, has been charged with bringing enlightenment to a new development in the midst of… Continue reading
UTEC Campus Building in Lima Wins First-Ever RIBA International Prize
By Anna Fixsen – Though Dublin-based Grafton Architects may not be celebrating Thanksgiving, they’re likely feeling thankful today: This evening, the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) named the firm’s impressive new building for the Universidad de Ingenieria y Tecnologia (UTEC) in Lima, Peru,… Continue reading
The Manetti Shrem Museum of Art by SO-IL & Bohlin Cywinski Jackson
By Josephine Minutillo – Beginning in the early 1960s, the University of California at Davis became home to a thriving academic art scene, with influential figures Wayne Thiebaud, known for his colorful paintings of everyday objects, and Robert Arneson, father of the Funk movement, among its diverse faculty. In recent years,… Continue reading
Elbphilharmonie by Herzog & de Meuron
After 13 years of planning and construction, Herzog & de Meuron’s Hamburg concert hall opens. By Suzanne Stephens – Like a giant seafaring ship with rippling sails of glass instead of canvas and a brick base instead of a wood hull, the new Elbphilharmonie commands the harbor of Hamburg’s still-active port in… Continue reading
Visual Arts Building at the University of Iowa by Steven Holl Architects
By Josephine Minutillo Inspired by Picasso’s Cubist composition for a 1912 guitar sculpture, Steven Holl’s first building for the University of Iowa is a stealth work of architecture whose layered weathering-steel assembly and light structure hugs its site and juts out over a quarry pond. His second one is nothing… Continue reading
11 Must See TED Photography Talks
TED Talks are known for their inspiring, wise and knowledgeable speakers. Have you been in need of some inspiration lately? If yes, these 11 videos just hit the spot. Read more at Online Read…… Continue reading
This Nonprofit Architecture Firm Transformed a Rwandan School
Text by Fred A. Bernstein, Photography by Iwan Baan Rwanda is trying to put its history of war and genocide behind it. Landlocked and without substantial natural resources, the country is investing in its people, turning to education as a force for change. Recent reforms have included raising the standards… Continue reading
Grace Farms by SANAA Wins Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize
The biennial award recognizes distinguished architectural projects in North and South America. Last night at a benefit dinner held Illinois Institute of Technology’s S. R. Crown Hall, Grace Farms—a project of the Pritzker Prize-winning firm SANAA—was honored with the 2014/2015 Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize (MCHAP). Read the… Continue reading
Tour a Forest Guesthouse That Sleeps 5, But Has No Bedrooms
By Wendy Goodman Steven Holl is one of a handful of global architects who have changed the way we move through cities. (See, for instance, his Linked Hybrid complex in Beijing, which connects eight towers via pedestrian walkways.) Now he’s taken that same spirit… Continue reading
10 of the best TED Talks about architecture
Architecture photographer Iwan Baan delivered a presentation in 2013 about communities around the globe that have adapted to challenging conditions in amazing ways. He features the occupants of Torre David, the unfinished tower in Venezuela, and residents of a floating slum in Nigeria called Makoko. He also speaks about the… Continue reading
RIBA announces 2017 Honorary Fellowships
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has today (Thursday 29 September) announced the 2017 RIBA Honorary Fellowships, which will be awarded to seventeen individuals from a diverse spectrum of backgrounds, including journalism, local government, art, architectural history and design. RIBA Honorary Fellowships are awarded annually to people who have… Continue reading