Steven Holl – författare

This book takes a close look at seven houses designed by Steven Holl, considered one of America's most influential architects. It offers the reader unprecedented access to the thought processes and work of this groundbreaking, cutting-edge architect through his own words and watercolors--and more than 100 photographs.This volume features seven of his residential houses and looks at his approach to modernist suburban residences, including two new homes finished in 2017. Viewed as a collection, these houses serve to demonstrate the wide range of Holl's prodigious genius through lavish and striking photographs as well as Holl's own descriptions. Considered one of America's most important architects, Holl is recognized for his ability to blend space and light with great contextual sensitivity and to utilize the unique qualities of each project to create a concept-driven design. Time magazine declared Holl "America's Best Architect" for his "buildings that satisfy the spirit as well as the eye."

Steven Holl celebrates the thirtieth anniversary of his landmark book Anchoring with Compression, a collection of thirty-five major projects from the past decade. Holl applies concepts from neuroscience, literature, social science, and philosophy to develop the idea of compression: the condensation of material and social forces to create meaningful and sustainable architecture. A diverse roster of international works includes an expansion of the Museum of Fine Arts Houston ; academic facilities for Columbia University, Princeton University, and the Glasgow School of Art; urban plans; a harbor gateway for Copenhagen; and an extension of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. All demonstrate Holl’s poetic attention to light, space, and water; a subtle and tactile employment of material and color; and an awareness of architecture’s potential to connect people through inspiring public spaces.

En 1994 la revista japonesa a+u dedicó un número especial al tema de la percepción en la arquitectura, publicación en la que Steven Holl, Alberto Pérez-Gómez y Juhani Pallasmaa colaboran con sendos ensayos. En el marco de un feroz debate a propósito de la introducción de los nuevos instrumentos digitales en el estudio de arquitectura, Steven Holl se desmarca radicalmente del tema para explicar el importante papel que desempeñan la percepción humana, la experiencia fenoménica y la intuición en la experiencia y la formación perceptiva del espacio construido. Junto al análisis de unas "zonas fenoménicas" que se corresponderían con los diferentes fenómenos perceptivos, Holl expone su propia experiencia directa con la arquitectura e ilustra el tipo de matices fenomenológicos sobre los que se apoyan sus argumentos.

Examines Steven Holl's intricate and distinctive process of making architecture through approximately one hundred models, related sketches and other studies created for nine recent projects.This publication, and the exhibition at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art that it accompanies, investigates the architect Steven Holl's unique process of making architecture, the foundation of which is drawing, almost always by hand. The publication includes an extensive critical essay about Steven Holl and his process by exhibition curator Nina Stritzler-Levine, and additional essays by Kerry Dean Carso and Peter Olshavsky. The projects section that follows these chapters includes descriptions of the eleven projects that are the focus of the exhibition; the exhibition checklist, which corresponds with the organization of the installation; and photographs of the installation.