Concrete Islands
Concrete Islands is a group exhibition of photography and video exploring contemporary experiences of utopian architectural projects. For many architects modernism was a physical manifestation of human progress and, as architectural historian Colin Rowe wrote in The Architecture of Good Intentions, “The architect could stipulate an intrinsic connection between the form of his buildings and… Continue reading
Iwan Baan: Brasilia – Chandigarh
19 March – 16 April, 2011 Solo Exhibition ACME Gallery Los Angeles, USA… Continue reading
Iwan Baan Around The World, Autour du Monde – Villa Noailles
February 20 – March 27, 2011 Solo Exhibition Villa Noailles, Hyères, France News coverage: Domus, March 3, 2011: Around the world in fifty-two weeks CNN Traveller, January 18, 2011 Abitare, March 7, 2011: Iwan Baan on show at Noailles Phaidon, February 16, 2011: A year… Continue reading
Brasilia – Un’utopia realizzata. 1960-2010
12 November, 2010 – 23 January, 2011 Group Exhibition La Triennale di Milano… Continue reading
Small Scale, Big Change: New Architectures of Social Engagement
This exhibition presents eleven architectural projects on five continents that respond to localized needs in underserved communities. These innovative designs signal a renewed sense of commitment, shared by many of today’s practitioners, to the social responsibilities of architecture. Though this stance echoes socially engaged movements of the past, the architects… Continue reading
Richard Neutra in Europe: Buildings and Projects 1960-70
Large, custom-built models, specifically for display purposes and of all of Richard Neutra’s ten buildings, are flanked by large-spread photographs and a wealth of plans, drawings, historical photographs and further documents from the estate in Los Angeles in order to bring to light a new and important chapter in European… Continue reading
Art Design
10 August – 28 September, 2008 Solo Exhibition Vivid Gallery, Rotterdam Netherlands… Continue reading
Building China: Five Projects, Five Stories
February 26 – May 31, 2008 Solo Exhibition AIA New York USA China is a common place that is still not well understood, a nation that has over the last half a century dealt with an impressive progress in economy, ideology, and population. With the rise of… Continue reading
Skin & Bones: Parallel Practices in Fashion and Architecture
Skin + Bones explores the parallels between the “skin” – or exterior surface – and the “bones” – or structural framework – of both clothing and buildings of the past 25 years. 19 November – 5 March, 2007 Group Exhibition Museum of Contemporary Art, Los… Continue reading
OMA in Beijing: China Central Television Headquarters – MoMa
15 November, 2006 – 26 March, 2007 Group Exhibition Ten large-scale construction photographs by Iwan Baan form the backdrop of the installation. The photographs chronicle the project’s rapid construction and provide insight into the urban context of Beijing – the enormity of the city’s scale and its recent modernization. Continue reading