L.A. Clippers’ New Home, Intuit Dome, Is a Hot Ticket for Art – The New York Times

When the $2 billion home of the Los Angeles Clippers, Intuit Dome, opens next month with a concert by Bruno Mars, visitors to the 18,000-seat arena will not only be greeted by an enormous double-sided LED scoreboard, an outdoor community basketball court and food choices ranging from vegan cauliflower… Continue reading

Rome – Las Vegas. Bread and Circuses / Buchtipp: Iwan Baan – Architektur und Architekten – News / Meldungen / Nachrichten – BauNetz.de

“As an object, the book, designed by Haller Brun, conveys the questions of low and high, fake and authentic, cheap and valuable, which Baan photographically pursues. […] Rome as the canonical reference point of the West, […] Las Vegas as the epitome of capitalist hedonism […] But of course… Continue reading

Doha: the Gulf’s open-air art gallery – Financial Times – Partner Content by DesignDoha

Doha: the Gulf’s open-air art galleryHow 100 pieces of public art and a score of sculptural buildings have turned the Qatari capital into one of the most aesthetically exciting cities in the worldDoha is a city with a skyline like no other. There are capitals around the world… Continue reading

Special event July 10 for ‘American Modern’ book – The Republic News

That is part of the early reaction to “American Modern: Architecture, Community, Columbus, Indiana” by Columbus native and veteran architecture writer Matt Shaw, with photos by internationally celebrated photographer Iwan Baan and graphics by Alex Lin of Studio Lin in Brooklyn, N.Y. They will speak and sign copies of… Continue reading

American Modern: Architecture, Community – Columbus, Indiana by Matt Shaw – review by Anthony Paletta

Anthony Paletta: Modernism Comes to Middle America – American Modern: Architecture, Community – Columbus, Indiana by Matt Shaw Columbus has been the subject of a few photographic volumes, and had a prominent turn in Kogonada’s 2017 film named after the place, but it has never had a proper history, a… Continue reading

The Storyteller – Iñaki Bergera | Arquitectura Viva

On view this summer of 2024 at Museo ICO is ‘Moments in Architecture,’ an exhibition originally set up at the Vitra Design Museum. It comes to Madrid as part of the PhotoEspaña festival, but this is not the first time for the spectacular photography of Iwan Baan (Alkmaar,… Continue reading

American Modern: Architecture; Community; Columbus

American Modern: Architecture; Community; Columbus, Indiana Matt Shaw, photographs by Iwan Baan The definitive book on one of the foremost modernist cities and architecture destinations in the USA: Columbus, Indiana The midwestern city of Columbus, Indiana, is more than a mecca of modern architecture; it is an example of… Continue reading

Minsuk Cho’s Serpentine Pavilion Recreates Korean Courtyards – SURFACE

Minsuk Cho and his firm Mass Studies unveiled their design for the 23rd annual Serpentine Pavilion this week, a structure of “five islands” inspired by madangs, the central courtyards typical of traditional Korean houses where everyday activities and communal rituals take place. Archipelagic Void also pays tribute to… Continue reading

RECORD Editors Round Up the Most Intriguing Architectural Monographs of 2024 So Far | Architectural Record

Iwan Baan: Moments in Architecture,edited by Mateo Kries and Mea Hoffmann. Contributions by Iwan Baan, Lisa Dabscheck, Beatrice Galilee, Marvin Heiferman, and Hans Ibelings. Vitra Design Museum, 586 pages, $85. RECORD contributing photographer Iwan Baan has been around the block. His work across six continents is wide-ranging, from commissions… Continue reading

Minsuk Cho’s 2024 Serpentine Pavilion Stands as a Playful People Connector | Architectural Record

The 23rd Serpentine Pavilion has opened in London, and, for the first time, the annual temporary structure, commissioned by one of London’s most prestigious art galleries, has a designated play area. Source: Minsuk Cho’s 2024 Serpentine Pavilion Stands as a Playful People Connector | Architectural Record… Continue reading

Rome – Las Vegas: Bread and Circuses

Iwan Baan’s new photography book Rome – Las Vegas: Bread and Circuses centres on two cities which in the history of architecture largely stand in stark contrast to eachother: whereas the former capital of the Roman Empire is perceived as ancient, properand eternal, Sin City is described as flashy,… Continue reading

‘Moments in Architecture’, by Iwan Baan | Arquitectura Viva

On view through 8 September at the ICO Foundation museum is the first major retrospective on the work of Iwan Baan, one of the world’s leading photographers of architecture. ‘Moments in Architecture’ is a traveling show curated by Mea Hoffmann and produced by the Vitra Design Museum, and… Continue reading