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Steven Holl

Steven Holl (born December 9, 1947, Bremerton, Washington

Bremerton, Washington

Bremerton is a city in Kitsap County, Washington, Washington, United States. The population was 37,259 at the United States Census, 2000. Bremerton is home to Puget Sound Naval Shipyard and the Bremerton Annex of Naval Base Kitsap....
) is an American academic architect

Architect

An architect is trained and licenced in planning and designing buildings, and participates in supervising the construction of a building. Etymologically, architect derives from the Latin architectus, itself derived from the Greek arkhitekton , i.e....
and watercolorist best known for the 1998 Kiasma Contemporary Art Museum in Helsinki, Finland and the controversial 2003 Simmons Hall at MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Cambridge, Massachusetts

Cambridge is a city in the Greater Boston area of Massachusetts, United States. It was named in honor of the University of Cambridge in England....
, U.S.

United States

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. In June 2007 the much celebrated Bloch Building addition to the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art is an art gallery in Kansas City, Missouri, Missouri.In 2007, TIME Magazine ranked the museum's new Bloch Building, # 1 on the "The 10 Best Architectural Marvels" list....
in Kansas City, Missouri opened to the public.

graduated from the University of Washington and pursued architecture studies in Rome in 1970.

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Steven Holl (born December 9, 1947, Bremerton, Washington

Bremerton, Washington

Architect

Cambridge, Massachusetts

Cambridge is a city in the Greater Boston area of Massachusetts, United States. It was named in honor of the University of Cambridge in England....
, U.S.

United States

Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

Career

Simmons Hall, Mit, Cambridge, Massachusetts

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 offices New York City

New York City

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, and has taught at Columbia University

Columbia University

Columbia University in the City of New York , is a private university in the United States and a member of the Ivy League. Columbia's main campus lies in the Morningside Heights, Manhattan neighborhood in the borough of Manhattan, in New York City....
since 1981.

Holl's architecture has undergone a shift in emphasis, from his earlier concern with typology

Typology

"Typology" is the study of types. More specifically, it may refer to:*Typology , division of culture by races*Typology , classification of things according to their characteristics...
to his current concern with a phenomenological

Phenomenology (architecture)

Phenomenology is both a philosophy design current in contemporary architecture and a specific field of academic research, based on the experience of building materials and their sensory properties....
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

Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Maurice Merleau-Ponty was a France Phenomenology philosopher, strongly influenced by Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger in addition to being closely associated with Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir....
and architect-theorist Juhani Pallasmaa

Juhani Pallasmaa

Juhani Uolevi Pallasmaa is a Finnish people architect and former professor of Architecture at the Helsinki University of Technology and a former Director of the Museum of Finnish Architecture ....
.

In 1998 Holl was awarded the prestigious Alvar Aalto Medal

Alvar Aalto Medal

The Alvar Aalto Medal was established in 1967 by the Museum of Finnish Architecture and the Finnish Association of Architects . The Medal has been awarded intermittently since 1967 when the medal was created in honour of Alvar Aalto....
. In 2000, Holl was elected to The American Academy of Arts and Letters

The American Academy of Arts and Letters

The American Academy of Arts and Letters is a 250-member organization whose goal is to "foster, assist, and sustain excellence" in United States literature, music, and art....
. In July 2001 Time Magazine named Steven Holl as America’s Best Architect, for 'buildings that satisfy the spirit as well as the eye.' Awards include the 2008 BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Arts category, 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

Alberto Pérez-Gómez

Alberto P?rez-G?mez is an architectural history and is also known as a theorist and a promoter of Phenomenology . Born December 24, 1949 in Mexico City, Mexico, he graduated as an engineer and architect from the National Polytechnic Institute and pursued graduate studies in the history and theory of architecture at the University of Essex whe...
, Holl wrote essays for a 1994 special issue of the Japanese architectural journal A+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
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art is an art gallery in Kansas City, Missouri, Missouri.In 2007, TIME Magazine ranked the museum's new Bloch Building, # 1 on the "The 10 Best Architectural Marvels" list....
in Kansas City, Missouri
Kansas City, Missouri

Kansas City is the largest city in the U.S. state of Missouri. It encompasses in parts of Jackson County, Missouri, Clay County, Missouri, Cass County, Missouri, and Platte County, Missouri counties....
.
School of Art and Art History, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
Iowa

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.
Linked Hybrid Housing, Beijing
Beijing

is a metropolis in northern China and the Capital of the People's Republic of China. It is one of the four municipality of China, which are equivalent to province in China's Political divisions of China....
.
Kiasma
Kiasma

Kiasma is a contemporary art museum located along Mannerheimintie in Helsinki, Finland. It is named after kiasma, Finnish translation for a chiasma alluding to the basic conceptual idea of its architect, Steven Holl....
, Museum of Contemporary Arts, Helsinki
Helsinki

Helsinki is the Capital and largest List of cities and towns in Finland of Finland. It is in the southern part of Finland, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, by the Baltic Sea....
(1993-1998).
Cranbrook Institute of Science, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
Bloomfield Hills, Michigan

Bloomfield Hills is an affluent city in Oakland County, Michigan of the U.S. state of Michigan, northwest of downtown Detroit. As of the United States Census, 2000, the city population was 3,940....
.
Planar House (Cottle Residence), Paradise Valley, Arizona
Paradise Valley, Arizona

Paradise Valley is a town in Maricopa County, Arizona, Arizona, United States. According to 2005 Census Bureau estimates, the population of the town was 14,558....
.
Turbulence House, New Mexico
New Mexico

New Mexico is a U. S. State located in the Southwestern United States of the United States. Inhabited by Native Americans in the United States populations for many centuries, it has also has been part of the Spanish Empire viceroyalty of New Spain, part of Mexico, and a U.S....
.
Stretto House, Dallas, Texas
Texas

Texas is a U.S. state located in the South Central United States, nicknamed the Lone Star State. Texas is the second largest U.S. state in both area and population, spanning , and with a growing population of 24.3 million residents....
(1989-82).
Chapel of St. Ignatius (at Seattle University
Seattle University

Seattle University is a non-profit Roman Catholic Church Society of Jesus university located in the First Hill, Seattle, WA neighborhood of Seattle, WA....
), Seattle, Washington
Seattle, Washington

Seattle is the most populous city in the US state of Washington and the Northwestern United States. The encompassing Seattle metropolitan area is the 15th largest in the United States, and the largest in the Pacific Northwest....
(1994-97).
Sarphatistraat Offices, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Bellevue Arts Museum
Bellevue Arts Museum

The Bellevue Arts Museum traces its roots back to street fair art in 1947. After several temporary locations, it moved to the third floor of Bellevue Square, a large shopping center in the center of downtown Bellevue, Washington in 1983....
, Bellevue, Washington
Bellevue, Washington

Bellevue is a rapidly growing city in King County, Washington, United States, across Lake Washington from Seattle. Long known as a suburb or satellite city of Seattle, it is now categorized as an edge city or a boomburb....
.
Pratt Institute Higgins Hall Center Section, Brooklyn, NY.
Storefront for Art and Architecture
Storefront for Art and Architecture

Storefront for Art and Architecture is a contemporary art and architecture gallery founded in 1982 in New York City....
, New York City
New York City

The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
.
Hybrid Building, Seaside, Florida
Florida

Florida is a U.S. state located in the Southeastern United States of the United States, bordering Alabama to the northwest and Georgia to the northeast....
(1984-88).
Berlin AGB Library, Berlin
Berlin

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, Germany
Germany

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(entry for a competition in 1988).
Void Space Housing, Nexus World, Fukuoka
Fukuoka, Fukuoka

is the capital cities of Japan of Fukuoka Prefecture and is situated on the northern shore of the island of Kyushu in Japan, across the Korea Strait from South Korea Busan....
, Japan
Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....
(1989-91).

Recent competition success

'Sail Hybrid' casino development, Knokke-Heist
Knokke-Heist

Knokke-Heist is a Municipalities in Belgium located in the Belgium Provinces of Belgium of West Flanders. The municipality comprises the towns of Heist-aan-Zee, Knokke, Duinbergen, Ramskapelle and Westkapelle ....
, Belgium (2005).
'Floating Skyscraper', Vanke Center, Shenzhen
Shenzhen

Shenzhen is a city of sub-provincial city administrative status in southern China's Guangdong province, situated immediately north of Hong Kong....
, China (2006).
'Meander', Taivallahti Residential Area, Helsinki (2006).

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(with drawings)