Steven Holl. txt
Robert McCarter.
- First Published 2015
- 340 p. ill.; plans.; col. 30 cm. book
Include index
Include Bibliography
Introduction / retrospect: To enlarge space: beginnings in architecture -- 1. Archetype / experience : Five unbuilt designs : Sokolov Retreat, St. Tropez, France ; Gymnasium Bridge, South Bronx, New York ; Bridges of houses, New York ; Urban proposal for Porta Vittoria District, Milan, Italy ; Amerika-Gedenkbibliothek, Berlin, Germany -- Five early built works : Pool house and sculpture studio, Scarsdale, New York ; Cohen apartment, New York ; House at Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts ; Pace Collection Showroom, New York ; Hybrid building, Seaside, Florida -- Edge of a city: five urban designs : Erie Canal houses, Rochester, New York ; Stitch plan, Cleveland, Ohio ; Spatial retaining bars, Phoenix, Arizona ; Spiroid sectors, Dallas, Texas, Parallax Towers, New York -- 2. Anchoring / intertwining: Void space, hinged space housing, Fukuoka, Japan; Stretto House, Dallas, Texas; Palazzo del Cinema, Venice, Italy; Chapel of St. Ignatius, Seattle, Washington; Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland -- 3. Luminosity / porosity : Cranbrook Institute of Science addition, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan ; Sarphatistraat Offices addition, Amsterdam, Netherlands ; Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, Washington ; Simmons Hall, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts ; Higgins Hall addition, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York -- Black swan theory: five houses : Y-House, Catskills, New York ; Little Tesseract House, Rhinebeck, New York ; Nail collector's house, Essex, New York ; Writing with Light House, Long Island, New York ; Planar House, Phoenix, Arizona -- 4. Tactility / topography: School of Art and Art History, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa -- Swiss Embassy Residence, Washington DC; Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art addition and renovation, Kansas City, Missouri; Herning Museum of Contemporary Art, Herning, Denmark; Knut Hamsun Museum, Hamarøy, Norway -- 5. Hapticity / urbanity: Linked hybrid, Beijing, China ; Horizontal Skyscraper, Vanke Center, Shenzhen, China ; Sifang Art Museum, Nanjing, China -- Five built works: Cité de l'Océan et du Surf, Biarritz, France ; Sliced porosity block, Chengdu, China ; Daeyang Gallery and House, Seoul, Korea; Campbell Sports Center, Columbia University, New York; Glasgow School of Art addition, Glasgow, Scotland -- Ten works in progress: Sail hybrid, Knokke-Heist, Belgium; LM Harbor Gateway, Copenhagen, Denmark; Princeton University Center for Creative and Performing Arts, Princeton, New Jersey; New Art Building; University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa; Queens West Branch Library, New York; Hangzhou Music Museum, Hangzhou, China; Institute of Contemporary Art, VCU, Richmond, Virginia; Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas; Tianjin Eco-City Ecology and Planning Museum, Tianjin, China; Kennedy Center for Performing Arts expansion, Washington DC -- Conclusion / prospect : Expanding reality: concept, time, and interiority --
This comprehensive monograph on Steven Holl, one of America's greatest living architects, offers an extensive overview of both realized and unrealized works from 1974 to today... This book examines the architect's most important works through in-depth analysis of his design processes and ideas, as well as his methods and materials of construction. Experiential 'walk-throughs' of Holl's buildings place the reader within the spaces and describe how they act to engage the senses. This in-depth monograph is devoted to one of the leading United States architects on the contemporary scene: Steven Holl (b.1947). Richly illustrated with hundreds of colour photographs and Holl’s own watercolours, the book introduces the artist's personality and works, and the studio he founded in 1976, Steven Holl architects. Holl studied architecture at the University of Washington at Seattle, and later in Rome and at the Architectural Association in London. He has worked both in the United States and in Europe, and a great deal in the East, especially in Japan. His most important designs, outstanding in their respect for the cultural and historical environment in which they are set, include the Makuhari residential complex in Japan, the St. Ignatius chapel at the University of Seattle, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Helsinki and the extension of the Cranbrook Institute of Science at Bloomfield Hills in Michigan. A professor at the Graduate School of Architecture of Columbia University, Holl has held courses and given lectures in several other institutions in the United States. He has won many awards, including the Arnold W Brunner prize for architecture in 1990, and the Alvar Aalto medal in 1998. Robert McCarter has known and taught with Holl for over 30 years and provides an authoritative and personal examination of Holl and his work. A must-own book for architects as well as for students of the discipline.