Portraits KAAN Architecten. 15 Buildings

Portraits showcases a unique perspective on the major built works of KAAN Architecten. The Dutch firm gained wide renown through complex public commissions, spanning a broad range of scales and typologies. The selected projects for this book are portrayed as individual characters, each with its own physiognomy but belonging to the same family and sharing similar features. The volume explores the studio's work using multiple lenses.
On the one hand, it retraces and unfolds the projects' narrative, focusing on single pieces of a complex puzzle : a fragment of an image, a citation from an article, a detail. On the other hand, It simply holds up a mirror to the projects, reflecting them as they are, with no additional interpretation. Original essays and more than 400 illustrations and photographs map out a complex genealogy that reveals the 15 buildings not as autonomous entities but as parts of a shared vision.