Iwan Baan: The Notational Surface – e-flux

The Rice School of Architecture is proud to announce the opening of Iwan Baan: The Notational Surface, an exhibition by acclaimed Dutch photographer Iwan Baan, launching September 3, 2025. Presented as part of the school’s new curatorial program, Exhibitions at Rice in Cannady Hall, the show will kick off with a public lecture by Baan at 5pm, followed by an exhibition opening reception from 6–8pm. The show will remain on view through October 25, 2025.

The Notational Surface presents a sweeping new body of photographic work developed by Baan over the past five years. Capturing Houston from both the ground and air, the project offers a layered view of the city’s infrastructure, environmental precarity, and spatial complexity.

“Baan approaches contemporary urbanism with a profound appreciation not only for the architecture of singular structures, but also for the planetary systems between and beyond them,” said Igor Marjanović, William Ward Watkin Dean of the Rice School of Architecture. “His photographs remind us that every urban condition is also a representational project—and that the city can be read, reimagined, and ultimately, reshaped.”

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