Q+A: ‘Dig It!’ Co-Author Bjarne Mastenbroek on Why Architects Should Build With the Earth | Architect Magazine
The nearly 1,400-page survey, by Mastenbroek and photographer Iwan Baan, focuses on projects “connected to the rest of the ecosystem we have.”
A decade ago, Bjarne Mastenbroek, founder and director of the Amsterdam-based firm SeARCH, and Dutch architectural photographer Iwan Baan began work on a study of architecture built in relationship with the Earth’s crust. Drawing on Baan’s extensive body of work and Mastenbroek’s fascination with the connection between architecture and site, the pair has completed Dig it! Building Bound to the Ground (Taschen, 2021), a survey of landscape-bound buildings.
