Ivan Baan

Ivan Baan in Chandigarh

Iwan Baan (born February 8, 1975 in Alkmaar , Kingdom of the Netherlands ) is a Dutch photographer .

Life

Baan grew up near Amsterdam and studied photography at the Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten in The Hague . after graduating, he has worked as a documentary photographer both in Europe and in New York City . In 2005 he went to Beijing as a photographer . He documented the architectural firm OMA by Rem Koolhaas building the headquarters of Chinese state television CCTV . He also documented the construction of the national stadium in Beijing , based on the design by Herzog & de Meuron . The new building of the Blavatnik School of Government in Oxford , England , also planned by Herzog & de Meuron, was documented by Baan in 2015.

Since 2008, Baan has published almost twenty illustrated books on a wide variety of construction projects around the world. His photo reports appear regularly in international newspapers and magazines.

Prizes and awards

• 2010: Julius Shulman Photography Award .
• 2012: Golden Lion at the Venice Architecture Biennale .
• 2016: Stephen A. Kliment Oculus Award from AIA New York City.

Publications

• Building China: Five Projects / Five Stories . 2008, ISBN 978-84-96954-51-9 .
• Richard Neutra in Europe: Buildings and Projects 1960 to 1970 . DuMont, Cologne 2010. ISBN 978-3-8321-9286-0 .
• MAXXI : Zaha Hadid Architects . 2010, ISBN 978-08478-5800-2 .
• SANAA , Sejima & Nishizawa : New Museum , New York . 2010, ISBN 978-84-343-1244-9 .
• Iwan Baan: Brasília - Chandigarh : Living with Modernity . Lars Müller Verlag, Baden, Switzerland 2010, ISBN 978-3-03778-228-6 .
• Iwan Baan Around the World: Diary of a Year of Architecture , fr. and en .. Exhibition catalog: Archibooks and Sautereau Éditeur, Paris 2011, ISBN 978-2-35733-137-2 .
• Ruta del Peregrino. A Photographic Essay by Iwan Baan . 14th Venice International Architecture Biennale 2012, ISBN 978-3-0330-3590-4 .
• Torre David : Informal Vertical Communities . Lars Müller Publishers, Zurich 2012, ISBN 978-3-03778-298-9 .
• 52 Weeks, 52 Cities: Iwan Baan . Marta Herford , Kehrer, Heidelberg 2013, ISBN 978-3-86828-477-5 .
• with Hélène Binet : Zaha Hadid: Heydar Aliyev Center . Lars Müller Verlag, Baden, Switzerland 2013, ISBN 978-3-03778-353-5 .
• African Modernism: The Architecture of Independence: Ghana , Senegal , Kenya , Zambia , Côte d'Ivoire . Park Books, Zurich 2015, ISBN 978-3-906027-74-6 .
• Iwan Baan Japan Modern . Lars Müller, Zurich 2016, ISBN 978-3-03778-518-8 .
• BIG. Hot to Cold: an Odyssey of Architectural Adaptation . Text: Bjarke Ingels . Taschen, Cologne 2015, ISBN 978-3-8365-5739-9 .

Web links

• Website of the photographer (en.)
• Entries in Arthistoricum.net