Brasilia – Chandigarh | Lars Müller Publishers

Back in print! delighted to bring back into print Iwan Baan’s photography book Brasília – Chandigarh: Living with Modernity, which now comes in a new compact format following popular demand. In 1960, Brasília was celebrated as the realization of an urban planning vision based on designs by Lúcio Costa and Oscar… Continue reading

Iwan Baan “Moments in Architecture” Vitra Design Museum | The Plan

“Moments in Architecture”, the first retrospective dedicated to Dutch photographer Iwan Baan, is open at the Vitra Design Museum through March 3, 2024 Source: Iwan Baan “Moments in Architecture” Vitra Design Museum | The Plan… Continue reading

Iwan Baan’s Photo Exhibition is a Journey into Architecture | Living – Corriere della Sera

‘The important thing is to tell a story,’ says Iwan Baan, a Dutch photographer known primarily for the images that reveal life and the interactions that take place within the architecture. His work is on display until March 3, 2024 at the Vitra Design Museum, the building signed… Continue reading

Iwan Baan, Fotograf: «Man braucht Augen im Hinterkopf» | Espazium

Iwan Baans erste umfassende Retrospektive «Momente der Architektur» im Vitra Design Museum präsentiert über zwei Jahrzehnte seiner renommierten Dokumentarfotografie. Im Gespräch erklärt Baan seine Arbeit als «zoom in and out» zwischen den Details der Gebäude, oft bei laufender Baustelle und im grösseren Kontext der Umgebung. Source: Iwan… Continue reading

“Iwan Baan: Moments in Architecture” at the Vitra Museum Marks the Photographer’s First Major Retrospective | Architectural Record

It’s safe to say that RECORD contributing photographer Iwan Baan has seen his share of the world. His work is widely published and ranges from architectural commissions to documenting the growth of global megacities and their myriad housing structures and social contexts, as well as vernacular architecture in… Continue reading

Iwan Baan, de fotograaf die van gebouwen decorstukken van het leven maakt | De Standaard

Hij legt geen gebouwen vast, maar decors voor het leven van elke dag. Iwan Baan moet een van de beroemdste architectuurfotografen zijn, en dat komt misschien wel omdat hij lange tijd niet met architectuur bezig was. De Nederlandse fotograaf reisde de wereld rond als documentairefotograaf, tot hij de… Continue reading

‘Iwan Baan: Moments in Architecture’, la exposición del fotógrafo holandés en Vitra Design Museum | Traveler

La exposición que ha abierto sus puertas en el museo concebido por Frank Gehry muestra ejemplos de la obra de Baan desde principios de la década de los 2000, entre ellos material fílmico e imágenes poco conocidas de edificios informales, hasta una iglesia monolítica etíope, apartamentos en El… Continue reading

Five on Friday: November 3rd, 2023 | Iwan Baan’s new exhibition celebrates the soul of architecture

World-renowned Dutch photograhper Iwan Baan’s retrospective exhibition, Iwan Baan: Moments in Architecture, at the Vitra Design Museum in Rhein, Germany is a comprehensive overview of the artist’s prolific work. Indeed, the exhibition examines Baan’s ability to “capture the essence of contemporary architecture, along with the urban and social… Continue reading

Iwan Baan Captures Architecture’s Human Side

Baan parlayed this invaluable experience chronicling architecture’s human side into an illustrious, decades-long career that has taken him around the globe portraying buildings by world-class architects like Herzog & de Meuron, Kazuyo Sejima, and Tatiana Bilbao. His oeuvre is currently the subject of “Moments in Architecture,” a sweeping… Continue reading

Design Dispatch: October 31, 2023

What’s Happening: A sweeping new retrospective at the Vitra Design Museum chronicles how the Dutch photographer humanizes buildings with his lens. Source: Design Dispatch: October 31, 2023… Continue reading

DS+R’s Blue Dream House is an aerospace-inspired family residence in East Hampton

Atop the grassy mounds of Atlantic Double Dunes in East Hampton, with vast stretching waters of the Two Mile Hollow Beach in the background, an off-white fluid form sits in sheer alienation on its land. Situated there as the home of American collectors Julie Reyes Taubman and Robert… Continue reading

Herzog & de Meuron Embraces Imaginative Reuse With Powerhouse Arts | Architect Magazine

Realized in collaboration with PBDW Architects, the Brooklyn, N.Y.-based facility “signals the importance of imaginative reuse rather than new construction, the conversion of places of production into spaces for art, consumption, and experience, and the dissipation of our cities’ infrastructure for culture beyond the center city,” Aaron Betsky… Continue reading