Two Sides of the Border – Exhibition
What if we stopped dividing the United States and Mexico into two separate nations, and instead studied their shared histories, cultures, and economies and acknowledged them as pieces of a single region? During the spring 2018 semester, Tatiana Bilbao organized an academic initiative called Two Sides of the Border: Redefining… Continue reading
Jean Nouvel-designed National Museum of Qatar announces opening date | The Art Newspaper
Architect, who also designed the Louvre Abu Dhabi, drew inspiration from the crystalline forms that emerge in the desert Source: Jean Nouvel-designed National Museum of Qatar announces opening date | The Art Newspaper… Continue reading
An architectural pilgrimage: “Landscape of Faith”
Book-review: Tatiana Bilbao is the author of Landscape of Faith: Interventions Along the Mexican Pilgrimage Route (Lars Müller Publishers). The book features more than 200 photographs by Iwan Baan, showing the structures along the road and the pilgrims who use them. The pilgrimage pathway from Ameca… Continue reading
Two Sides of the Border to tackle the shared architecture of the U.S. and Mexico
During the spring of 2018, 13 architecture studios in Mexico and the U.S. undertook an ambitious shared project to examine Mexican-American topics in architecture. The studios investigated the many ways that the two countries perform as a region with shared economies, infrastructures, languages, and histories. A new exhibition at… Continue reading
BV Doshi’s iconic architecture captured by Iwan Baan
One of the world’s most significant architectural photographers tours Ahmedabad and Bengaluru to capture the most iconic projects of BV Doshi Source: BV Doshi’s iconic architecture captured by Iwan Baan “I’ve known of BV Doshi’s work since my first trip to Ahmedabad in 1999, when… Continue reading
The Most Ambitious Park in Russia
Grafting interactive culture onto wilder urban landscapes, Zaryadye Park in Moscow aspires to be the emblematic park of the 21st century. Source: The Most Ambitious Park in Russia… Continue reading
Image Building: How Photography Transforms Architecture
July 20–October 28, 2018 Now at the First Art Museum: Image Building: How Photography Transforms Architecture explores the changing relationship between viewer, photographer, and architect, from the 1930s to the present. Demonstrating how photographers connect a building’s identity with the people who reside in, work in, visit, or simply look… Continue reading
Glenstone Museum reveals the art in store for vast Pavilions expansion | The Art Newspaper
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Sangita Jindal on what makes BV Doshi a stellar role model
AD India Special issue on Pritzker Prize laureate BV Doshi, photographs by Iwan Baan AD India: Sangita Jindal on what makes BV Doshi a stellar role model… Continue reading
Julian Rose on “Image Building” at the Parrish Art Museum – Artforum International
This most recent work is troubling in its implications for contemporary architecture. Iwan Baan’s Torre David #1, 2011, appears to be a harmlessly derivative makeover of a Gursky photograph like Avenue of Americas, but it’s one of the more unsettling images in the show. The rigid grid of… Continue reading
Landscape of Faith
The publication Landscape of Faith which was published with Lars Müller Publishers is shortlisted for the Best Photography Book of the Year Award by PHotoEspaña It will be exhibited at the Biblioteca Nacional de España from 6 June to 23 September… Continue reading
Book club: inside OMA’s Qatar National Library
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