Geoffrey Bawa: Architecture for the Senses
Covering the entire career of the renowned Sri Lankan architect Geoffrey Bawa, this comprehensive monograph offers original perspectives on one of the most influential twentieth-century architects in South Asia, whilst featuring new photography of built projects and never-before published material from the architect’s own archive. Accompanying the Vitra Design Museum’s… Continue reading
Spaces of Sociability – The Ismaili Center Houston
The Ismaili Center Houston is a new landmark of architecture and culture. Edited by Mohsen Mostafavi and richly illustrated with photographs by Iwan Baan and Salina Kassam, this volume provides a rare look into the making of a unique project. Essays by the primary designers of the building and its… Continue reading
Architecture Is a Tool to Improve Lives
“Perfection blocks any form of participation and also causes an excessive consumption of resources.” In Form Follows Love, Anna Heringer describes her understanding of architecture. For her new book, she traveled to Bangladesh with Iwan Baan to visit the buildings created there as well as her women’s empowerment project, Dipdii Textiles. Continue reading
Fenix: The Museum as Metaphor
The official book of FENIX, the new migration museum in Rotterdam. A building of iconic design by leading architects MAD The 16,000 sqm building, dating from 1923, is being transformed in a radical design by Ma Yansong of MAD Architects, the internationally acclaimed Beijing-based architecture practice. Located on the south… Continue reading
From Las Vegas to Rome: Photographs by Iwan – Mextrópoli
The Mextrópoli Festival is one of Latin America’s most important architecture and city festivals. The 2025 edition will focus on “collective housing” in the face of a global housing crisis. The UIA World Congress of Architects 2026 Barcelona will be presented in Mexico City on 20 September 2025, at the… Continue reading
The Notatonal Surface – Houston
The Rice School of Architecture presents Iwan Baan: The Notational Surface, a new solo exhibition by the world-renowned Dutch photographer whose work has reshaped how we see cities and the lives they hold. Developed over the past five years for the school’s Houston Archive Project, the exhibition traces the city from… Continue reading
Rome – Las Vegas Bread and Circuses – Iwan Baan
The cities of Rome and Las Vegas commonly sit at opposite ends of what architecture represents: whereas the former capital of the Roman Empire is perceived as ancient, proper and eternal, Sin City is described as flashy, vulgar and fake. Yet, both find themselves historically and contemporarily at the intersection… Continue reading
Italia in movimento. Autostrade e futuro.
“A highway is not a road. But a windowsill that runs through the world. And it’s not even a freeway, it’s not made for super people, but for ordinary people, going towards work, love, the sea. And look. On the highway, we do the two main actions, the most important… Continue reading
SANAA in Sydney: New architecture for the Art Gallery of New South Wales
Celebrating SANAA’s new building for the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney, with photography by Iwan Baan. This important new book celebrates the design of SANAA’s new building for the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney led by Pritzker Prize–winning architects Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa. Continue reading
Architecture, Not Architecture: Diller Scofidio + Renfro
The first comprehensive monograph on the cross-disciplinary practice including over 100 built and ephemeral works Since its founding in 1981, New York-based studio Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R) has designed some of the world’s most revered civic spaces and cultural institutions. Their practice covers architecture, urban design, installation art, performance,… Continue reading
From Las Vegas / To Rome – The photographs of Iwan Baan
From Las Vegas / To Rome – The photographs of Iwan Baan Beta – the Timișoara Architecture Biennale – Vila Mal Octobre 19 – February 28 In the history of architecture, the cities of Rome and Las Vegas are radically contrasting with one another: while Rome, the former capital… Continue reading
DEMOGO: Architecture and projects in complex contexts
First comprehensive architectural monograph by DEMOGO with images by Iwan Baan In their first comprehensive architectural monograph, the architects of DEMOGO explore the driving question of the importance of context for their architecture and invite designers and theorists to reflect with them on the relationship between contemporary spaces and complex contexts. Continue reading