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Steven Holl
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| Born | December 9, 1947 |
| Nationality | American |
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| Occupation | Architect |
| Awards | Alvar Aalto Medal (1998) BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award (2008) AIA Gold Medal (2012) Praemium Imperiale (2014) The Daylight and Building Component Award (2016) |
| Practice | Steven Holl Architects |
| Buildings | Kiasma Contemporary Art Museum, Helsinki, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Linked Hybrid, Beijing, Knut Hamsun Center, Hamarøy, Norway, [Kinder Building, Museum of Fine Arts Houston], Houston, Texas, [Rubenstein Commons, Institute for Advanced Study (IAS)], Princeton, New Jersey |
Steven Holl (born December 9, 1947) is an American architect. He is also a watercolor artist. He lives and works in New York City.
Steven Holl has designed many famous buildings. Some of his well-known works include the Rubenstein Commons in 2022. He also worked on the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston in 2020. This project included the Nancy and Rich Kinder Building. He designed the REACH expansion for the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in 2019. The Hunters Point Library in Queens, New York was also completed in 2019. In 2007, he designed the Bloch Building. This was an addition to the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Missouri. He also created the Linked Hybrid complex in Beijing, China in 2009.
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Steven Holl's Journey in Architecture
Early Life and Education
Steven Holl was born on December 9, 1947. He grew up in Bremerton, Washington and Manchester, Washington. His father was from Norway. In 1971, Holl earned a Bachelor of Arts degree. He studied architecture at the University of Washington.
Awards and Achievements
Steven Holl has received many important awards. In 1998, he won the Alvar Aalto Medal. This is a very respected award in architecture. In 2000, he became a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
In 2001, Time magazine called him "America's Best Architect." They said his buildings were good for both the mind and the eyes. He also won the French Grande Médaille d’Or in 2001. The Smithsonian Institution gave him the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award in 2002.
In 2008, he received the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award. In 2012, he was honored with the AIA Gold Medal. This is one of the highest awards for architects in the United States. He also won the Praemium Imperiale Prize for Architecture in 2014. In 2016, he received The Daylight and Building Component Award.
His designs have won many awards. For example, the Simmons Hall at MIT won the Harleston Parker Medal in 2004. The University of Iowa School of Art and Art History building also won awards in 2007.
Teaching Architecture
Steven Holl is a professor at Columbia University. He has taught there since 1981. He often teaches about how music and architecture are connected.
The 'T' Space Arts Center
In 2010, Holl started 'T' Space. This is an arts organization in Rhinebeck (village), New York. Its goal is to combine art, architecture, music, and poetry.
'T' Space holds art shows in the summer. It also has a summer program for young architects. In this program, students learn to design buildings. They focus on how design affects the environment.
'T' Space also publishes books. It has a 30-acre nature reserve with outdoor art. In 2019, an archive and library were built there. This building holds Holl's watercolor paintings. It also stores his models and drawings from over 40 years of work.
Notable Architectural Designs
Early Projects
In 1988, Steven Holl won a competition. He designed an expansion for the American Memorial Library in Berlin. In 1989, his work was shown at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City. MoMA later bought 25 of his works for their collection.
In 1992, Holl won another competition. He designed a new museum in Helsinki, Finland. His design was called "Chiasma." The museum opened in 1998 and is now called Kiasma.
Chapel of St. Ignatius
Holl designed the Chapel of St. Ignatius at Seattle University. It was built from 1994 to 1997. He wanted to create more green space on campus. So, he put the chapel in the middle of a former street. This created new green areas around the building.
The chapel's design was inspired by a vision. It has "seven bottles of light in a stone box." This means it has seven different sections. Each section lets in light in a unique way. The glass is colored differently in each part. This makes different areas of the chapel glow with colored light. In 2022, this chapel won the Twenty-five Year Award. This award is given to buildings that have stood the test of time.
Key Buildings and Projects
Steven Holl has designed many important buildings around the world. Here are some of them:
| Building Name | Location | Year Completed |
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| Hybrid Building | Seaside, Florida | 1988 |
| Void Space Housing, Nexus World | Fukuoka, Japan | 1991 |
| Stretto House | Dallas, Texas | 1992 |
| Storefront for Art and Architecture | New York, New York | 1993 |
| Chapel of St. Ignatius at Seattle University | Seattle, Washington | 1997 |
| Cranbrook Institute of Science | Bloomfield Hills, Michigan | 1998 |
| Kiasma, Museum of Contemporary Art | Helsinki, Finland | 1998 |
| Sarphatistraat Offices | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 2000 |
| Bellevue Arts Museum | Bellevue, Washington | 2001 |
| Simmons Hall, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, Massachusetts | 2002 |
| Pratt Institute Higgins Hall Insertion | New York, New York | 2005 |
| Lake Whitney Water Purification Facility | New Haven, Connecticut | 2005 |
| Turbulence House | Abiquiu, New Mexico | 2005 |
| University of Iowa School of Art and Art History | Iowa City, Iowa | 2006 |
| Bloch Building expansion of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art | Kansas City, Missouri | 2007 |
| Linked Hybrid | Beijing, China | 2009 |
| Knut Hamsun Centre (Hamsunsenteret) | Nordland, Norway | 2009 |
| Herning Museum of Contemporary Art | Herning, Denmark | 2009 |
| Horizontal Skyscraper - Vanke Center | Shenzhen, China | 2009 |
| Cite de l'Ocean et du Surf | Biarritz, France | 2011 |
| Daeyang Gallery and House | Seoul, South Korea | 2012 |
| Sliced Porosity Block - CapitaLand Raffles City Chengdu | Chengdu, China | 2012 |
| Campbell Sports Center at Columbia University | New York, New York | 2013 |
| Sifang Art Museum | Nanjing, China | 2013 |
| Seona Reid Building at Glasgow School of Art | Glasgow, United Kingdom | 2014 |
| Visual Arts Building at University of Iowa | Iowa City, Iowa | 2016 |
| Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey | 2017 |
| Maggie's Centres Barts | London, United Kingdom | 2017 |
| Institute for Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) | Richmond, Virginia | 2018 |
| Glassell School of Art at Museum of Fine Arts, Houston | Houston, Texas | 2018 |
| The REACH at John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts | Washington, DC | 2019 |
| Hunters Point Library, Queens Public Library | New York, New York | 2019 |
| Winter Visual Arts Center at Franklin & Marshall College | Lancaster, Pennsylvania | 2020 |
| Nancy and Rich Kinder Building at Museum of Fine Arts, Houston | Houston, Texas | 2020 |
| Rubenstein Commons at Institute for Advanced Study | Princeton, New Jersey | 2022 |
Selected Writings by Steven Holl
Steven Holl has also written several books about architecture. These books share his ideas and thoughts on design.
- Pamphlet Architecture 5: Alphabetical City, Princeton Architectural Press, New York, 1980.
- Anchoring, Princeton Architectural Press, New York, 1989.
- Intertwining, Princeton Architectural Press, New York, 1996.
- The Chapel of St. Ignatius, Princeton Architectural Press, New York, 1999.
- Parallax, Princeton Architectural Press, New York, 2000.
- Steven Holl: Architecture Spoken, Rizzoli, 2007.
- Urbanisms: Working with Doubt, Princeton Architectural Press, 2009.
- Steven Holl: Scale, Lars Müller Publishers, 2012.
- Steven Holl: Color, Light and Time, Lars Müller Publishers, 2012.
- Steven Holl, Robert McCarter, Phaidon, New York, 2015.
- Compression, Princeton Architectural Press, New York, 2019.
- The REACH: The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Rizzoli, New York, 2019.
- Steven Holl: Inspiration and Process in Architecture, Princeton Architectural Press, New York, 2020.
