MAGAZINE PUBLICATIONS

What Happens in Vegas
On visiting Las Vegas in dark times
Architectural Record, June 2025 →

Hero Complex
Review of The Rising by Larry Silverstein
Architectural Record, August 2024 →

History dans le Boudoir
Review of The Architecture of Influence by Amanda Reeser Lawrence
New York Review of Architecture, July/August 2024 →

Safe Space
On the shifting architecture of atrocity
Architectural Record, June 2024 →

High Line
On Nuno Brandão Costa’s Porto Intermodal Terminal
Architectural Record, January 2024 →

Heavenly Bodies: The Sphere and the Promise of a New Earth
Architectural Record, December 2023 →

Inside the Box
On the Perelman Performing Arts Center and the unfulfilled promises of Ground Zero
Architectural Record, October 2023 →

Gothic Shadow: SHoP’s Brooklyn Supertall
Architectural Record, September 2023 →

Power Move
On the industrial nostalgia of Herzog & de Meuron’s Powerhouse Arts
Architectural Record, July 2023 →

Like a Prayer
On the Abrahamic Family House and the problem of assessing architecture in the Persian Gulf
Architectural Record, June 2023 →

Drama Queen
On OMA’s Taipei Performing Arts Center
Architectural Record, December 2022 →

A Pound of Theory
Review of Inscriptions: Architecture Before Speech, ed. K. Michael Hays and Andrew Holder
Architectural Record, October 2022 →

Roadside Attraction
On the reuse of Marcel Breuer’s Pirelli Tire Building by Becker + Becker
Architectural Record, June 2022 →

Learning from Frank Furness
Extant, Spring 2021 →

Fashion Victims
On the renovation of the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego by Selldorf Architects
Architectural Review, February 2019 →

OMA’s Taipei Performing Arts Center on the cover of Architectural Record (December 2022). Photo: Iwan Baan

BOOK & JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS

Visiting Denise
in Iwan Baan, Rome – Las Vegas: Bread and Circuses, Lars Müller Publishers (Zürich: 2024). →

Interview with Ievgeniia Gubkina
in Ievgeniia Gubkina, Being a Ukrainian Architect During Wartime: Essays, Interviews, and Manifestos, DOM (Berlin: 2023), 66-71.

Louis I. Kahn and the Frank Furness Connection
Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, October 2021, 266-304. →

Louis Kahn and Group ‘55
in Sam Feinstein, Group ’55, and Midcentury Abstraction in Philadelphia, Woodmere Museum (Philadelphia: 2020), 86-93. →

SELECTED PROJECTS

Structure & Purpose: The Legacy of Engineering at Keast & Hood
Exhibition held at the Athenaeum of Philadelphia including original work by many of the 20th century’s most important architects and engineers →

Design Yard Sale
Online fundraiser for racial justice that raised over $125,000 in four weeks selling creative work donated by designers around the globe →