Burkina Faso’s Master Builder | Martin Filler | The New York Review of Books
Because most of Kéré’s completed buildings are far from the well-trodden pathways of mass tourism, few people have seen them apart from their users, local residents, or architecture aficionados who’ve traveled great distances expressly to visit them. Happily, among the latter is Iwan Baan, the Dutch architectural photographer… Continue reading
Pritzker Winner Francis Kéré Pushes Architecture’s Green Future – Bloomberg
The Pritzker Prize-winning architect Francis Kéré uses local materials and an eye for traditional practices to push the global boundaries of sustainability. Source: Pritzker Winner Francis Kéré Pushes Architecture’s Green Future – Bloomberg… Continue reading
Momentum of Light – Iwan Baan, Francis Kéré – Best Dutch Book Designs/De Best Verzorgde Boeken
The book ‘Momentum of Light’ – Iwan Baan, Francis Kéré was just selected as one of The Best Dutch Book Designs / De Best Verzorgde Boeken 2021 Every year, The Best Dutch Book Designs celebrates the best products of the graphic industry in the Netherlands: 33 books made with… Continue reading
Tehran’s Argo Factory complex reinvents brewery architecture for the arts – Wallpaper
Argo Factory Contemporary Art Museum & Cultural Centre, the first hub of its kind to be built in Tehran in over 40 years, was completed and due to launch in 2020. Yet due to the pandemic and local political circumstances in Iran, it’s only now that the team behind it, Iranian-Austrian architect… Continue reading
Transparency Links Town and Gown at Columbia’s New Business School | 2022-03-01 | Architectural Record
Almost two decades after Columbia University first proposed a controversial expansion into the West Harlem neighborhood of Manhattanville, the Ivy League institution has opened two buildings for its business school on the 17-acre satellite campus. The completion of these latest Manhattanville structures—Henry R. Kravis Hall and David Geffen… Continue reading
Momentum of Light at the AA in London
Momentum of Light explores the interplay between natural sunlight, vernacular architecture and everyday life in the West African nation of Burkina Faso. The exhibition presents a series of images captured by Dutch photographer Iwan Baan during his travels with Burkinabè architect Francis Kéré through Burkina Faso in March 2020, during… Continue reading
Ida Panicelli on “The Hare with Amber Eyes” – Artforum
Conceived by architect Elizabeth Diller, along with the Jewish Museum’s Stephen Brown and Shira Backer in collaboration with the author, this Wunderkammer-like exhibition contains art, ephemera, personal effects, and photos belonging to the family that reconstruct the style of their residences in Paris and Vienna. It additionally features… Continue reading
Review of ‘Momentum of Light’ | 2022-02-09 | Architectural Record
Architect Francis Kéré revisits the paradoxical world of his childhood in Burkina Faso with photographer Iwan Baan, where pitch balck interiors contrast with an outdoors drenched in the sub-Saharan sun. Source: Review of ‘Momentum of Light’ | 2022-02-09 | Architectural Record… Continue reading
Xposure puts 57 world-class photographers in the frame for 2022 edition
Xposure 2022 brings award-winning photographers of architecture to an annual photography exhibition in Sharjah this February High end to handmade homes Majid Abdalla Al Bastaki, an architectural photographer born and raised in Sharjah, will showcase images that capture the culture, art and beauty of the emirate while Dutch photographer… Continue reading
Site Verrier de Meisenthal by SO – IL and FREAKS | 2022-02-01 | Architectural Record
Thanks to its abundant forests, water, and sand, the Pays de Bitche, in the Moselle département of France, has long been a center for glassmaking. Initially a nomadic activity, glass production in the region began to settle at fixed sites in the 18th century, and the Meisenthal glassworks,… Continue reading
The Innovative Brooklyn Architects Paving the Way for a New Generation | Architectural Digest
Thirteen years into their experimental practice, the architects behind SO–IL have hit their stride Source: The Innovative Brooklyn Architects Paving the Way for a New Generation | Architectural Digest… Continue reading
Read “Dig it!” a Book on Architecture Embedded in Earth
Whether you are looking for the perfect gift for an architecture lover or just for a new architecture book for yourself, one publication makes for great reading. Titled Dig It! Building Bound to the Ground, the book explores the inventive designs of architecture embedded in the earth. The work,… Continue reading