Dutch Photographer Iwan Baan Speaks at NYCxDesign Ahead of a Retrospective at Germany’s Vitra Design Museum | Architectural Record
Opening this fall, the show is the first of its kind for Baan, a preeminent documentarian of the global built environment whose work has been featured in countless books and exhibitions but never with such an expansive scope, one that considers both his widely published architectural photography and the personal “passion” projects that have found him documenting communities—and the vernacular architecture that helps to define them—in remote locales where few starchitects tread. “His observant eye presents architecture not as an abstract ideal, but as the setting of everyday life, an organic part of the urban fabric—be it suburban sprawl or the booming metropoles of Africa and Asia,” wrote the museum in a teaser of the exhibition.