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Iwan Baan
Recent Works:
Contemporary Architectural Photographs
AA Gallery
London, UK
Photo: Sue Barr
The exhibition showcases recent architectural photography by the young and increasingly influential Dutch photographer Iwan Baan. He has pioneered a 3D interactive photographic technique featuring finished buildings and scale models as well as commissions by leading international architects to photograph a wide range of the world’s most exciting contemporary architecture.
Photo: Sue Barr
For the last three years Baan has documented the construction of OMA’s China Central Television (CCTV) building, alongside Herzog & de Meuron’s Olympic Stadium and other 2008 Olympic projects in Beijing.
Photo: Iwan Baan
China Central Television (CCTV) under construction
Photo: Iwan Baan
Olympic Stadium under construction
This first solo exhibition dedicated to Baan’s work highlights the rich and idiosyncratic nature of his oeuvre, with an emphasis on recent Asian assignments.
Based at any given time in London, Amsterdam, Paris, Beijing or New York, Baan’s modus operandi redefines the traditionally static relationship between the architectural photographer and his subject (the immovable building, and the equally unmoving photographer behind the ground glass screen of a 5x4 plate camera) with an approach borrowed more from reportage photography – transient, animated, fast-paced. The resulting unique documentary quality of his architectural photographs, which entertain as much as they mesmerize, also resonates with the extraordinary qualities of a wide range of recent buildings.
Photo: Iwan Baan
House N - Sou Fujimoto Architects
Oita, Japan 2008
Photo: Iwan Baan
The School of American Ballet at the Lincoln Center
Diller Scofidio + Renfro Architects
NY, New York 2007
Photo: Iwan Baan
KAIT Kobo - Kanagawa Institute of Technology
junya.ishigami+associates
Kanagawa, Japan 2008
Photo: Iwan Baan
Mikimoto - Toyo Ito
Tokyo, Japan 2006
Photo: Iwan Baan
Bibliotheca Espana - Giancarlo Mazzanti
Medellin, Colombia 2008
Baan’s perspective on recent works by OMA, SANAA, Steven Holl, Sou Fujimoto, Toyo Ito, Zaha Hadid, Michael Maltzan and Diller Scofidio + Renfro, a number of which feature in this show, has given scope for new interpretations. His photographs are published and collected internationally.
Photo: Iwan Baan
ICA - Diller Scofidio + Renfro
Boston, Massachusetts
Photo: Iwan Baan
Jinhua Architecture Park
Jinhua, China
Steven Holl Architects
Sliced Porosity Block
Chengdu, China
December 15, 2008