Iwan Baan: Rome – Las Vegas: Bread and Circuses – SCI-Arc
SCI-Arc Gallery March 20, 2026 – April 26, 2026 Opening reception and Artist Talk: March 20 at 6pm In 2022, the American Academy in Rome organized From Las Vegas to Rome, an exhibition that revisited the relationship between Rome and Las Vegas through seventy photographs by Iwan Baan. Continue reading
From Las Vegas to Rome | Iwan Baan | School of Architecture – The University of Texas at Austin
Jan. 23 to feb. 27, 2026, 4 to 5 p.M. Location: Mebane gallery (gol 2.105) School of Architecture – The University of Texas at Austin This exhibition explores dialogues between Las Vegas and Rome through images taken by Iwan Baan, one of the most prolific photographers active… Continue reading
Petroleum – Lisbon Architecture Triennale 2025
Screenshot Iwan Baan’s Petroleum offers a stark portrait of the Athabasca Tar Sands in Canada, an aerial archaeology of extraction where the landscape becomes both resource and ruin. The images reveal the paradox of progress: immense industrial fields that power global economies while exhausting the planet’s capacity to regenerate. Continue reading
From Las Vegas to Rome: Photographs by Iwan – Mextrópoli
The Mextrópoli Festival is one of Latin America’s most important architecture and city festivals. The 2025 edition will focus on “collective housing” in the face of a global housing crisis. The UIA World Congress of Architects 2026 Barcelona will be presented in Mexico City on 20 September 2025, at the… Continue reading
The Notatonal Surface – Houston
The Rice School of Architecture presents Iwan Baan: The Notational Surface, a new solo exhibition by the world-renowned Dutch photographer whose work has reshaped how we see cities and the lives they hold. Developed over the past five years for the school’s Houston Archive Project, the exhibition traces the city from… Continue reading
Iwan Baan: The Notational Surface
Iwan Baan: The Notational Surface Exhibition on view at the Rice School of Architecture, Houston September 3 to October 25, 2025. The Rice School of Architecture Gallery William T. Cannady Hall The Rice School of Architecture presents Iwan Baan: The Notational Surface, a new solo exhibition by… Continue reading
From Las Vegas to Rome: Photographs by Iwan – Princeton University School of Architecture
In 2022, 50 years after Denise Scott Brown, Robert Venturi, and Steven Izenour declared in their influential book Learning from Las Vegas that the desert town was to the Strip what Rome is to the Piazza, the American Academy of Rome debuted the exhibition From Las Vegas to Rome, exploring… Continue reading
Iwan Baan – Momentum of Light – Museum Kranenburgh
24 juni 2025 t/m 16 november 2025 In de tentoonstelling Momentum of Light onderzoekt fotograaf Iwan Baan (1975 Alkmaar, opgegroeid in Bergen en woonachtig in Amsterdam) de wisselwerking tussen natuurlijk zonlicht, lokale architectuur en het dagelijkse leven in het West-Afrikaanse land Burkina Faso. De tentoonstelling presenteert een reeks beelden… Continue reading
From Las Vegas to Rome – Architectural Association London
When they published Learning from Las Vegas in 1972, Denise Scott Brown and Robert Venturi revolutionised architecture by claiming that the lessons the American desert town had to offer equalled those of the Eternal City. “Las Vegas is to the Strip what Rome is to the Piazza,” they declared. Organised… Continue reading
“Parallel Worlds, Exhibition from Macao, China” to be staged at “19th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia” presents Macao’s multifaceted urban landscape
Organised by the Cultural Affairs Bureau of the Macao SAR Government and implemented by the Macao Museum of Art, with the support of MGM, the “Parallel Worlds, Exhibition from Macao, China” will be held from 10 May to 23 November 2025 in Venice, Italy as one of the… Continue reading
Italia in movimento. Autostrade e futuro | MAXXI
exhibition 06 December 2024 > 02 February 2025 galleria 3 curated by Pippo Ciorra with Angela Parente The history and future of the motorway from infrastructure to a socio-cultural device of technological innovation and integration with the landscape. The exhibition, realized in collaboration with Autostrade per… Continue reading
From Las Vegas / To Rome – The photographs of Iwan Baan
From Las Vegas / To Rome – The photographs of Iwan Baan Beta – the Timișoara Architecture Biennale – Vila Mal Octobre 19 – February 28 In the history of architecture, the cities of Rome and Las Vegas are radically contrasting with one another: while Rome, the former capital… Continue reading