Steven Holl

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Steven Holl's design for Simmons Hall of MIT won the Harleston Parker Medal in 2004.

Kiasma, Helsinki, 1993-1998

Steven Holl (born December 9, 1947, Bremerton, Washington) is an American academic architect best known for the 1998 Kiasma Contemporary Art Museum in Helsinki, Finland and the controversial 2003 Simmons Hall at MIT, Boston, USA.

Holl graduated from the University of Washington in 1971, established his offices in New York City in 1976, and has taught at Columbia University since 1981.

In 1998 Holl was awarded the pretigious Alvar Aalto Medal. In 2000, Holl was elected to The American Academy of Arts and Letters. Holl was named as "America's Best Architect" by Time Magazine in 2001.

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's existentialist, bodily engagement with his surroundings. The shift came about partly due to his interest in the writings of philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty and architect-theorist Juhani Pallasmaa.

1 Notable works
2 Recent competition success
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Notable works

Cranbrook Institute of Science, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.[1]
Planar House (Cottle Residence), Paradise Valley, Arizona.
Turbulence House, New Mexico.
Stretto House, Dallas, Texas (1989-82).
Expansion of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Missouri.
Chapel of St. Ignatius(at Seattle University), Seattle, Washington (1994-97).
Sarphatistraat Offices, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, Washington.
Pratt Institute Higgins Hall Center Section, Brooklyn, NY.
Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York City.
Kiasma, Museum of Contemporary Arts, Helsinki (1993-1998).
Art Building West, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa.
Looped Hybrid Housing, Beijing.
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).

[edit] Recent competition success

'Sail Hybrid' casino development, Knokke-Heist, Belgium (2005).
'Floating Skyscraper', Vanke Center, Shenzhen, China (2006).
'Meander', Taivallahti Residential Area, Helsinki (2006).

[edit] 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.