- Steven Holl
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name=Steven Holl
nationality=American
birth_date=Birth date and age|1947|12|9|mf=y
birth_place=Bremerton, Washington
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significant_buildings=Kiasma , Museum of Contemporary Arts,Helsinki
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awards=Alvar Aalto Medal |Steven Holl (born
December 9 ,1947 ,Bremerton, Washington ) is an American academicarchitect and watercolorist best known for the 1998Kiasma Contemporary Art Museum inHelsinki, Finland and the controversial 2003 Simmons Hall atMIT ,Cambridge, Massachusetts , U.S.. In June 2007 the much celebrated Bloch Building addition to theNelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Missouri opened to the public.Career
Holl graduated from the University of Washington and pursued architecture studies in Rome in 1970. In 1976, he joined the
Architectural Association in London and established his officesNew York City , and has taught atColumbia University since 1981.Holl's architecture has undergone a shift in emphasis, from his earlier concern with
typology to his current concern with a phenomenological approach; that is, with a concern for man'sexistentialist , bodily engagement with his surroundings. The shift came about partly due to his interest in the writings of philosopherMaurice Merleau-Ponty and architect-theoristJuhani Pallasmaa .In 1998 Holl was awarded the prestigious
Alvar Aalto Medal . In 2000, Holl was elected toThe American Academy of Arts and Letters . In July 2001Time Magazine named Steven Holl as America’s Best Architect, for 'buildings that satisfy the spirit as well as the eye.' Awards include Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects (2003), the Smithsonian Institute’s Cooper Hewitt National Design Award in Architecture (2002), the French Grande Médaille d’Or (2001), the prestigious Alvar Aalto Medal (1998), the Arnold W. Brunner Prize in Architecture from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the New York American Institute of Architects Medal of Honor (1997). Most recently Steven Holl Architects the School of Art & Art History (University of Iowa, Iowa City) received the AIA 2007 Institute Honor Award for and the AIA New York Chapter 2007 Merit Architecture Award. The Center Section at the Pratt Institute (Brooklyn, New York) and the New Residence at the Swiss Embassy both received the AIA New York Chapter 2007 Honor Architecture Award.Along with Pallasmaa and
Alberto Perez-Gomez , Holl wrote essays for a 1994 special issue of the Japanese architectural journalA+U under the title "Questions of Perception: Phenomenology of Architecture." The publication was reissued as a book in 2006.Notable works
* Expansion of the
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art inKansas City, Missouri .
* School of Art and Art History,The University of Iowa ,Iowa City ,Iowa .
* Linked Hybrid Housing,Beijing .
*Kiasma , Museum of Contemporary Arts,Helsinki (1993-1998).
* Cranbrook Institute of Science,Bloomfield Hills, Michigan . [http://science.cranbrook.edu/]
* Planar House (Cottle Residence),Paradise Valley, Arizona .
* Turbulence House,New Mexico .
* Stretto House,Dallas ,Texas (1989-82).
* Chapel of St. Ignatius (atSeattle University ),Seattle, Washington (1994-97).
* Sarphatistraat Offices,Amsterdam, The Netherlands .
*Bellevue Arts Museum ,Bellevue, Washington .
* Pratt Institute Higgins Hall Center Section,Brooklyn, NY .
*Storefront for Art and Architecture ,New York City .
* Hybrid Building, Seaside,Florida (1984-88).
* Berlin AGB Library,Berlin ,Germany (entry for a competition in 1988).
* Void Space Housing, Nexus World, Fukuoka,Japan (1989-91).Recent competition success
*'Sail Hybrid' casino development,
Knokke-Heist , Belgium (2005).
*'Floating Skyscraper', Vanke Center,Shenzhen , China (2006).
*'Meander', Taivallahti Residential Area, Helsinki (2006).References
*Scott Drake, “The Chiasm and the experience of space”, "JAE", Nov. 2005, vol.59, iss. 2, 53-59.
*Steven Holl, “Educating our Perception”, in “Magic Materials II”, "Daidalos", August 1995.
*Steven Holl, "Parallax", Birkhauser, New York, 2000.
*Steven Holl, Pamphlet Architecture 1-10. Princeton Architectural Press, New York, 1998.
*Steven Holl, "The Chapel of St.Ignatius." Princeton Architectural Press, New York, 1999.
*Alberto Perez-Gomez, Juhani Pallasmaa, Steven Holl, "Questions of Perception. Phenomenology of Architecture", William K. Stout Pub., San Francisco, 2006 (2nd edition).
*Alberto Perez-Gomez, “The architecture of Steven Holl: In search of a poetry of specifics”, "El Croquis" 93, 1999.
*Philip Jodidio, "Architecture Now!", Icons, Taschen,New York, 2002.
*Gareth Griffiths, "Steven Holl and His Critics", "Ptah", Helsinki, 2006.External links
* [http://www.stevenholl.com Steven Holl Architect's website]
* [http://storiesofhouses.blogspot.com/#114544321748374730 The Stretto House by Steven Holl] (with drawings)
* [http://www.seattleu.edu/chapel/ The Chapel of St. Ignatius]
* [http://www.kmpfurniture.com Modern Furniture website]
* [http://www.architecturallysignificanthomes.com/Architecture/Architecturally%20Significant/strettohouse.asp Photographs of Architect Steven Holl Designed Modern Home in Dallas, Texas]
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