The Unsung Art of Office Design – Bloomberg
What Does an Office Mean? Two Architects Discuss Technology has transformed the contours of our workspaces. The authors of a new book spanning 50 years of design history explain how. Source: The Unsung Art of Office Design – Bloomberg… Continue reading
DSR Prior Performing Arts Center is designed as a public commons
The College of the Holy Cross has just opened a $110 million performing arts centre designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro expressing the school’s commitment to liberal arts as a core component of its curriculum. The team behind it highlight that it is designed to break down boundaries, celebrating… Continue reading
Swiss beat: Akris turns 100 | Financial Times
To mark the 100th anniversary, Kriemler has compiled a monograph and prepared a centenary collection, both projects that have allowed him to dig deep into the Akris lore. For the book, titled Selbstverständlich, naturally, he approached the Zürich publishing house Lars Müller, a company usually focused on publications… Continue reading
The Office of Good Intentions with Florian Idenburg and Iwan Baan, Sat, Oct 8, 2022 at 6:00 PM at Het Nieuwe Instituut, NL
Join us for this book launch by Florian Idenburg and Iwan Baan at Het Nieuwe Instituut. About this event In their new book, The Office of Good Intentions, architects Florian Idenburg and LeeAnn Suen and photographer Iwan Baan take a trip through the American office from the 1970s… Continue reading
From Las Vegas to Rome: Photographs by Iwan Baan | American Academy in Rome
Curated by Lindsay Harris, interim Andrew Heiskell Arts Director. Opening reception: Thursday, October 6, 7:00 to 9:00pm. When they published Learning from Las Vegas in 1972, Denise Scott Brown and Robert Venturi revolutionized architecture by claiming that the lessons the American desert town had to offer equaled those… Continue reading
MOMENTUM OF LIGHT – Georges Festival France
Momentum of Light is showing at the Georges Festival in Rennes, Frace, Sept 24th until October 9th 2022 MOMENTUM OF LIGHT explore l’interaction entre la lumière naturelle du soleil, architecture vernaculaire et vie quotidienne du Burkina Faso. L’exposition présente une série d’images captées par le photographe néerlandais Iwan… Continue reading
Sou Fujimoto Melds the Hungarian House of Music with its Natural Surroundings | Architectural Record
A feast for the senses, the House of Music unites the sight of the forest with the joy of listening. This exceptional work stands amid the trees of Budapest’s central City Park and was composed by Sou Fujimoto. Though based in Tokyo, the architect grew up in rural… Continue reading
The Office of the Future Is an Old Idea
A New Book Illustrates the Past Half-Century’s Various “Offices of the Future”The Office of Good Intentions. Human(s) Work explores how design and technology have transformed how and where we work through a wide and diverse collection of groundbreaking offices.By: Ethan Tucker Source: The Office of the Future… Continue reading
Hobs, dogs and mountain views: what makes the perfect office? – in pictures | Art and design | The Guardian
From swish ‘thought pods’ to chaotic open-plan designs, a new book explores the evolution of our modern working spaces. A new book takes us on a trip through American office design, from Marcel Breuer’s IBM campus to Lil Miquela’s Instagram profile. The Office of Good Intentions. Human(s) Work, by… Continue reading
AIGA – Momentum of Light – Iwan Baan, Francis Kéré
AIGA 50 Books | 50 Covers This time-honored competition identifies the 50 best-designed books and book covers of the year. Together, we celebrate powerful and compelling book design and the community‘s most inspired creations. Juror Comments “Amazing collaboration between architecture, photography, design, and printing!”… Continue reading
A Brief History of Architecture Through Photography | ArchDaily
(…) The development of digital technology linked to architecture in the postmodernism of the 1980s also impacts the way of building and construction sites. During the early 2000s, photographer Iwan Baan captured what this more streamlined construction site would look like in the CCTV project in Beijing, China,… Continue reading
MASS Design Group Establishes a Model for Regenerative Construction in Rwanda | Architectural Record
The opportunity to build an entire university campus from scratch, with a mandate to offer solutions to some of the world’s most critical problems, is a rare thing. But in the rapidly developing East African country of Rwanda, a conjunction of groundbreaking design, government support, and philanthropic commitment… Continue reading