Iwan Baan
Iwan Baan
21.10.2023 – 03.03.2024
Vitra Design Museum
Iwan Baan is one of today’s leading photographers of architecture and urban design. His images document the growth of global megacities and portray buildings by prominent contemporary architects including Herzog & de Meuron, Rem Koolhaas, and Zaha Hadid. The first large retrospective of the Dutch photographer’s work will open at the Vitra Design Museum in autumn 2023. Baan’s vibrant realism puts the focus on people and their relationship to the built environment. His observant eye presents architecture not as an abstract ideal, but as the setting of everyday life, an organic part of the urban fabric – be it suburban sprawl or the booming metropolises of Africa and Asia. Thanks to the great scope of his vision, Baan’s works offer a broad panorama of human building that impressively demonstrates the existential importance of architecture and urban design.
Image: CCTV Headquarters, Beijing, China, OMA © Iwan Baan
Garden House, Tsuyoshi Tane
Garden House, Tsuyoshi Tane
Vitra Campus & Vitra Design Museum Gallery
In summer 2023, another architectural highlight will be added to the Vitra Campus when the Garden House designed by architect Tsuyoshi Tane is set up between the Umbrella House and the Oudolf Garden. The small wooden building will be surrounded by a kitchen garden for the use of Vitra employees. A viewing platform on the roof of the new building offers a fine view of the Oudolf Garden, the Umbrella House, and the entire Vitra Campus. In autumn 2023, a special exhibition at the Vitra Design Museum Gallery will present insights into Tsuyoshi Tane’s work and his Vitra Garden House project.
