KAAN Architecten, founded and led by Kees Kaan, Vincent Panhuysen,
and Dikkie Scipio, promote Dutch building traditions of
sustainability, welfare, pragmatism, and quality through a
collaborative and analytical design approach. The Rotterdam-based
firm, who run satellite offices in Paris and Sao Paulo, gained wide
renown through complex public commissions that surpass traditional
notions of typology and method. Their range includes government
offices, museums, urban development projects, as well as buildings
for health care, education, and research. This first substantial
monograph on KAAN Architecten offers a comprehensive survey of
their most important projects to date. The 15 buildings documented
in the book are presented as different characters with varying
physiognomies, but which belong to the same family and feature
similar traits-hence the title of the book. Lavishly illustrated
with photographs, visualisations, plans and drawings, and through
essays by French architect, critic, and scholar of architectural
history Pierre Chabard and by Dutch architectural critic, writer,
and editor Ruud Brouwers, Portraits explores KAAN Architecten's
work using different lenses. By mapping out their complex
genealogy, the book also highlights that the firm's designs are not
single autonomous entities but rather parts of a shared vision.
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