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Pin Up: A metaphysical Iwan Baan in Best of Africa

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- 29 April 2016
- Edwin Seda
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A simple explanation will describe Iwan Baan as a Dutch photographer. A more metaphysical outlook of him is that of an artist who among others 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".
In this piece of PIN UP, we look at his oeuvre of work in Africa, a few of just the selected pieces that he has undertaken in personal and commission capacity towards enlightening the story of architecture through Africa.

Pin Up: A metaphysical Iwan Baan in Best of Africa

Makoko Floating Water School By Kunle Adeyemi, Image © Iwan Baan

Larabanga North Ghana Image © Iwan Baan

Larabanga North Ghana Image © Iwan Baan

Pin Up: A metaphysical Iwan Baan in Best of Africa

Kenyatta International Conference Centre, Nairobi (Kenya), by Karl Henrik Nostvik, 1967-1973. Image © Iwan Baan

Pin Up: A metaphysical Iwan Baan in Best of Africa

FIDAK - Foire Internationale de Dakar, Dakar Senegal, by Jean Francois Lamoureux & Jean-Louis Marin, 1974. Image © Iwan Baan

Pin Up: A metaphysical Iwan Baan in Best of Africa

Architecture_Independence_Iwan Baan_Abidjian, Ivory Coast

Pin Up: A metaphysical Iwan Baan in Best of Africa

Ahmed-Baba-Institute-Mali-DHK Architects Image © Iwan Baan

Pin Up: A metaphysical Iwan Baan in Best of Africa

Noero Wolff Architects. Red Location Museum Of Struggle, Port Elizabeth, South Africa. 1998–2005. Photo credit Iwan Baan.

Pin Up: A metaphysical Iwan Baan in Best of Africa

Lefhereng Housng in Johannesburg by 26'10 South Architects Iwan-Baan

- © Chai House, Market Street Nairobi Kenya. Image ...
- © Ahmed-Baba-Institute-Mali-DHK Architects Image ...
- © FIDAK - Foire Internationale de Dakar, Dakar Se...
- © FIDAK - Foire Internationale de Dakar, Dakar (S...
- © Hotel Ivoire, Abidjan (Côte d’Ivoire), by Heinz...
- © Architecture_Independence_Iwan Baan_Abidjian, I...
- © Hotel Independence, Dakar (Senegal), by Henri C...
- © Row-House-Iwan-Baan 26'10 South Architects
- © Makoko Floating Water School By Architect Kunle...
- © Noero Wolff Architects. Red Location Museum Of ...
- © Kenyatta International Conference Centre, Nairo...
- © Thread-Building-by-Toshiko-Mori-Architect_2015....
- © Kenyatta International Conference Centre, Nairo...
- © University of Zambia - UNZA, Lusaka (Zambia), b...
- © Larabanga North Ghana Image © Iwan Baan
- © Makoko Floating Water School By Kunle Adeyemi, ...

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