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52 Weeks, 52 Cities

At the Deutsches Architekturmuseum in Frankfurt, architectural photographer Iwan Baan takes the visitor around the world showing architecture in social contexts.

$Floating School, Makoko, Lagos \ Nigeria Photo: © Iwan Baan$

Iwan Baan is a master of his craft and has photographed the works of very well known architects – from Rem Koolhaas and Herzog de Meuron to SANAA, from Steven Holl and Toyo Ito to Zaha Hadid.

But classic architectural photography, cool and perfectly staged as it is, is not enough for him. Iwan Baan thinks and photographs in social contexts, and is far more interested in how people relate to architecture, take possession of it, use and thus change it.

“52 weeks, 52 cities” is a sort of visual travel diary and illustrates cosmopolitan Baan’s view of globalized architecture, focusing on slums just as much as boomtowns.

Top: Floating School, Makoko, Lagos \ Nigeria Photo: © Iwan Baan. Above: Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, East Lansing, Michigan \ USA Photo: © Iwan Baan

February 21 – June 14, 2015
52 Weeks, 52 Cities
Photographies by Iwan Baan
Deutsches Architekturmuseum (DAM)
Schaumainkai 43
Frankfurt am Main

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At the Deutsches Architekturmuseum in Frankfurt, architectural photographer Iwan Baan takes the visitor around the world showing architecture in social contexts.

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