The Notational Surface – Houston
This exhibition at the Rice School of Architecture explores Iwan Baan’s long-standing fascination with the city as a living diagram shaped by movement, energy, and chance. Houston becomes a field of notation: highways looping in recursive spirals, oil infrastructures etching themselves across the landscape, suburbs expanding in open-ended patterns. Baan’s photographs, suspended on angled planes, compose a spatial score rather than a sequence of images. They invite viewers to read the metropolis not as form but as flow, a mesh of systems where the everyday and the planetary meet. Accompanied by a catalogue with texts by Igor Marjanović and Clare Lyster, and designed with Experimental Jetset and Departamento del Distrito, the exhibition positions Houston as an emblem of contemporary urban complexity.
Fall 2025, Exhibitions at Rice, William T. Cannady Hall, Rice School of Architecture Houston
