In Redesigned Room, Hospital Patients May Feel Better Already – New York Times
Butaro Hospital in Rwanda on the cover of the The New York Times. Article by Michael Kimmelman, photo by Iwan Baan. Read the complete article in the New York Times…… Continue reading
Dead man building: is Louis Kahn’s posthumous New York project his best? – The Guardian
Four decades after his death, New Yorkers are flocking to Louis Kahn’s Four Freedoms Park on Roosevelt island. Was it all inspired by a masonic symbol on the back of a dollar bill? Read the complete article in The Guardian…… Continue reading
Space Pod Alights at the Serpentine Gallery – New York Times
LONDON — For the 15th year, the Serpentine Gallery has commissioned an architect to design a temporary structure on its front lawn in Kensington Gardens here. Read the complete article in The New York Times… Other news coverage: Wallpaper, June 24, 2014 ArchDaily, June… Continue reading
Beats By Dre’s Splashy New Headquarters: No Apple Influence Here – FastCoDesign
Southern California history meets daytime disco in Beats’ Culver City headquarters. “Beats is a Southern Californian company and Bestor’s design underscores that connection to L.A.’s history, landscape, and culture with a series of photo murals by photographer Iwan Baan in 10 of the conference and break-out rooms. The aerial images… Continue reading
How Iwan Baan Became the Most Wanted Photographer in Architecture – The Wall Street Journal
by Fred A. Bernstein Iwan Baan photographs the world’s buildings as they are made, used and abused by people—an approach that’s made him the architecture world’s most sought-after lensman It’s easy to see why Iwan Baan is called the Indiana Jones of architecture photography. One morning in January, at a… Continue reading
Review: Thom Mayne frames Emerson College with towering sense of self – LA Times
A frame, an arch, a studio stage set, a proscenium: The first question about Emerson College’s hulking new Hollywood campus on Sunset Boulevard, designed by Thom Mayne and the Culver City firm Morphosis, is simply what to call the architectural box in which it comes packaged. Read the complete… Continue reading
Interview with Photographer Iwan Baan
“Within the rather genteel milieu of architectural photographers, Baan is a phenomenon: a Flying Dutchman constantly girding the globe in pursuit of images. Like an architectural version of Mario Testino, he is the starchitects’ photographer du jour, documenting their buildings in a way that has become as distinctive and era-defining… Continue reading
A piece on Iwan Baan’s Instagram feed in the Dutch magazine “de Architect” (in Dutch)
Het werk van architectuurfotograaf Iwan Baan wordt alom geroemd. Niet alleen de compositie en de vastlegging van het object, maar ook de wijze waarop de context en het gebruik zich in het beeld dringen, maken zijn foto’s meer dan mooie plaatjes. Buiten zijn opdrachten om publiceert Iwan met enige regelmaat… Continue reading
Der Fotograf Iwan Baan: Seismograf gelebter Architektur – Neue Zürcher Zeitung (in German)
International bekannt wurde Iwan Baan durch seine belebten Baustellenfotos des Vogelnest-Stadions von Herzog & de Meurons sowie des CCTV-Tower von Rem Koolhaas in Peking. Jetzt zeigt der junge niederländische Architekturfotograf im Marta in Herford, dass ihn nicht nur grosse Gebäudeikonen interessieren. Read the complete article in Neue Zürcher Zeitung…… Continue reading
Around the world with Iwan Baan – Abitare
An exhibition in Germany celebrates the Dutch photographer, a reference point for the most important architects of our time. Read the complete article in Abitare…… Continue reading
Opinion: Alexandra Lange on how architects should use social media – DEZEEN
“At a higher artistic level, there’s the example of the Instagram of architectural photographer Iwan Baan. His Instagram (http://instagram.com/iwanbaan/) reveals that he has seen more contemporary architecture (and more of it from helicopters) than anyone. I find something aggrandising, even aggressive, about the relentlessness of his travel… Continue reading
TIME Picks the Top Photographic Magazine Covers of 2012
TIME Magazine picked the aerial photo of New York after Hurricane Sandy as the top photographic magazine cover of the year. Read the complete article in TIME…… Continue reading