Iwan Baan (born February 8, 1975 in Alkmaar) is a Dutch

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. He has challenged a long-standing tradition of depicting buildings as isolated and static by representing people in architecture and showing the building's environment, trying "to produce more of a story or a feel for a project" and "to communicate how people use the space". He has photographed buildings by many of the world's most prominent architects, including Rem Koolhaas and

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. He is "one of the most widely published" photographers in the world. His candid "polysemic shots" have been compared to the work of

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.Meet Iwan Baan, Today's Leading Architectural Photographer
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Photography Award, named after the most famous architectural photographer of the 20th century. At the 2012 Venice Architecture Biennale he received the Golden Lion for Best Installation. In 2012, he took the image of Manhattan after Hurricane Sandy that made the cover of

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magazine—showing light above 42nd St. and darkness below that line—illustrating vividly the storm's disparate impact. It was later turned into a limited edition print sold to benefit Sandy's victims. In April 2016, Baan received the AIA New York's Stephen A. Kliment Oculus Award.

Published books

* ''Momentum of Light'' 2021, * ''Dudok by Iwan Baan'' 2021, * ''Atmosphere Anatomies'' – On Design, Weather, and Sensation, 2021, * ''Two Sides of the Border'', 2020, * ''National Museum of Qatar'', 2020, * ''Tatiana Bilbao Estudio'', 2019, * ''Justice is beauty'', 2019, * ''Serpentine Pavilion'' 2019 – Junya Ishigami, * ''Balkrishna Doshi: Architecture for the People'' 2019, * ''Torre Reforma'' 2019, * ''Baku – Oil and Urbanism'' 2018, * ''Torre Reforma'' 2019, * ''Landscape of Faith'': Architectural Interventions along the Mexican Pilgrimage Route 2018, * ''Solid Objectives: Order, Edge, Aura'' 2017, * ''Bengal Stream – The Vibrant Architecture Scene of Bangladesh'' 2017, * ''LAB – Building a Home for Scientists'' 2017, * ''SoThe Long Life of Design in Italy: B&B Italia. 50 Years and Beyond'' 2016, * ''Olafur Eliasson: Riverbed'' 2015, * ''Olafur Eliasson: Contact'' 2015, * ''Portman's America'' & Other Speculations, 2017, * ''African Modernism'', 2015, . * ''52 Weeks, 52 Cities'', 2013, . * ''Iwan Baan around the world : diary of a year of architecture'', 2011, . * ''Diller Scofidio + Renfro : Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), Boston'', 2011, . * ''Insular insight : where art and architecture conspire with nature : Naoshima, Teshima, Inujima'', 2011, .

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award. * ''Iwan Baan, Brasilia - Chandigarh : Living with Modernity'', 2010, . * ''Porsche Museum : Delugan Meissl Associated Architects, HG Merz'', 2010, . * ''The SANAA studios 2006–2008 : learning from Japan : single story urbanism'', 2010, . * ''SANAA, Sejima & Nishizawa : New Museum, New York'', 2010, . * ''Maxxi : Zaha Hadid Architects'', 2010, . * ''Hamsun, Holl, Hamarøy : literature, Knut Hamsun : architecture, Steven Holl : landscape, Hamarøy, Nordland'', 2010, . * ''Richard Neutra in Europa : Bauten und Projekte 1960–1970'', 2010, . * ''Song through 21st century eyes : Yaozhou and Qingbai ceramics'', 2009, . * ''Maddalena effect : an architectural affair'', 2009, . * ''Building China Five Projects / Five Stories'', 2008, . * ''Onze bruggen : opdrachtgeverschap bij bruggen in zes Nederlandse gemeenten'', 2007, . * ''Perspectief : maakbare geschiedenis'', 2007, .

Published videos

* ''Dutch painters of the Golden Age'', 2002, *

Exhibitions

* ''Iwan Baan: 52 Weeks, 52 Cities, Exhibited in Montpellier (2016) Copenhagen (2015), Hamburg (2015), Herford (2013) * ''Iwan Baan: The Way We Live'', 2013, Perry Rubenstein Gallery, Los Angeles * ''Iwan Baan, 2010 autour du monde, journal d'une année d'architecture'', 2011,

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* ''Iwan Baan - Recent Works - Contemporary Architectural Photographs'', 2008, London * ''Building China Five Projects / Five Stories'', 2008, New YorkCFA Foundation
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References

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