Iwan Baan
- Dutch photographer, known for cityscapes and architecture, who took the Venice views featured in Issue2-14 as well as those of Koolhaas' new De Rotterdam.
The world is all around me, not in front of me
Merleau Ponty
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Comments on Modernity
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VENICE BIENNALE (Issue 2-2014)The exhibition at the British Pavilion is curated by Sam Jacob in collaboration with Dutch studio Crimson. At the entrance the mound sits as a monument to the demolished Robin Hood Gardens housing estate designed by Alison and Peter Smithson in the l[...]
Presence with Nonexistence
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ROTTERDAM (issue 2-2014) De Rotterdam on Wilhemina Pier (main photo by Iwan Baan). Today, if one crosses the Maas on the elegant Erasmus Bridge from Rotterdam’s city centre (if there is such a thing), one is greeted by the incongruous sight of Rem Koolhaas’s De Rotterdam. This ne[...]
LA Early High-Tech Modern
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SILVER LAKE (guide) VDL House, designed by Richard Neutra (photo: Julius Shulman after reconstruction in 1966. Richard Neutra's VDL house, also known as the Neutra Research House, is an icon of Californian High Tech Modernism. It was built in 1933 as a platform for the archite[...]
Gaudi's first masterpiece
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EL RAVAL, BARCELONA (guide) Palau Güell was Antoni Gaudi's first major commission, in which numerous architectural ideas were tried out for the first time. The intricate detailing of the building required a team of artisans, who continued to assist Gaudi throughout his career. It[...]
Re-greening the Medina
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MARRAKECH GARDENS (guide) Even if many hotels and private residences continue to practice ‘lawn and flower bed’ landscaping – imported from Europe and poorly adapted to the arid conditions of Marrakech – there is a new trend of drawing on ancient horticultural traditions, while e[...]
False Bay, More Coastline
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CAPE TOWN, DESIGN CAPITAL (1-2014) Architecture in Cape Town is inseparable from its geography. Table Mountain presides over the city and the peninsula provides its unique climate and landscape. One of these is the False Bay coast, popularly called the Indian Ocean side due to it[...]
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ContributorsGrand Tour is made with a team of international writers , journalists and photographers
Nelson Mota
- Writer, researcher and lecturer based in Delft, Netherlands, he wrote an overview on Koolhaas' new building De Rotterdam for Issue 2/2014
Edwin Heathcote
- Architecture critic for The Financial Times, he reported on the Venice Biennale in Issue 2-2014 and did an introduction to our specialist Marseille guide.
Lindeka Qampi
- Documentary photographer represented by Erdman Contemporary in Cape Town. Her photo essay from the Cape Flats in issue 1-2014.