Iwan Baan: Moments in Architecture
Iwan Baan is one of today’s leading photographers of architecture and urban design. His images document the growth of global megacities and portray buildings by prominent contemporary architects including Herzog & de Meuron, Rem Koolhaas, and Zaha Hadid. The first large retrospective of the Dutch photographer’s work will open at the Vitra Design Museum in autumn 2023. Baan’s vibrant realism puts the focus on people and their relationship to the built environment. 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.
The exhibition will include a number of Baan’s iconic works, many of which are familiar from magazines and books, as well as photographs of vernacular and informal architecture all around the world, from the round Tulou of southern China to the rockhewn churches of Ethiopia. Thanks to the great scope of his vision, Baan’s works offer a broad panorama of human building that impressively demonstrates the existential importance of architecture and urban design.
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Projects mentioned in the book:
- CCTV Headquarters Beijing – OMA
- National Olympic Stadium Beijing – Herzog & de Meuron
- Ordos Museum Mongolia – MAD Architects
- Plasencia auditorium and congress center – Selgas Cano
- Beinecke Library Yale University – SOM
- Garden & House, Tokyo Japan – Ryue Nishizawa, SANAA
- Towada Arts Center, Towada, Japan – Nishizawa
- Aranya housing Indore BV Doshi – Balkrishna Doshi
- Premabhai Hall – BV Doshi
Publisher : Vitra Design Museum; First edition (18 Oct. 2023)
Language : English
Paperback : 600 pages
ISBN-10 : 3945852587
ISBN-13 : 978-3945852583
Dimensions : 17.15 x 4.57 x 23.5 cm