After studying photography at the Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague, Iwan Baan worked on documentary photography before narrowing his focus to record how individuals, communities and societies create and interact within their built environment. Baan’s photographs reveal our innate ability to re-appropriate available objects and materials to find a place we can call our own. His images of the Torre David in Caracas won the Golden Lion for the Best Installation at the 2012 Venice Architecture Biennale.

With no formal training in architecture, his perspective mirrors the questions and perspectives of the everyday individuals who give meaning and context to spaces that surround us, giving architecture an accessible voice. He is the inaugural recipient of the Julius Shulman Institute Excellence in Photography Award in 2010 and has worked with architects including Rem Koolhaas, Herzog & de Meuron and Zaha Hadid.

Baan has also collaborated on several book projects. His work appears on the pages of architecture, design and lifestyle publications such as the New York Times, Domus and Architectural Digest.

Speaker:

Iwan Baan

Architectural Photographer, Iwan Baan Studio

Moderator:

Eric Schuldenfrei

Founding Partner, ESKYIU | Head of Department, Faculty of Architecture, HKU, HK