Steven Holl: Idea and Phenomena [Hardcover]

Stephen Holl (Author), Steven Holl (Author), Dietmar Steiner (Author), Michael Bell (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 15, 2002

This is the first publication of Steven Holls legendary watercolors. Built as diary, the 365 watercolors represent the creative process of this famous and influential American Architect. The watercolors show the highhly individual methode of Steven Holl, developed over many years and containing first ideas and scetches of all major buildings and competition projects. Holl is know for his sculptural architecture and his genuine use of light. Both qualities which meet the characteristics of the watercolor-technique.

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About the Author

Born in 1947 in Washington State and raised in the cloudy Pacific Northwest, Steven Holl designs understated buildings that traffic in beauty and illumination. His first structure was a 400-square foot sculpture studio and pool house built in 1980 in New York. Since then, he has gone on to design dozens of award-winning buildings for university campuses and urban settings in the United States, Finland, and Japan, including a new wing for the School of Architecture at Pratt Institute in New York; Void Space/Hinged Space Housing in Fukuoka, Japan; Kiasma, the Helsinki contemporary art museum for which he received the Alvar Aalto Medal from the Finnish Association of Architects; and his famous Chapel of Saint Ignatius at Seattle University. Holl currently lives and works in New York, where he is a professor of architecture at Columbia University. His most recent project is a major addition to the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, scheduled for completion in 2004.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 128 pages
• Publisher: Lars Muller (August 15, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 3907078888
• ISBN-13: 978-3907078884
• Product Dimensions: 13.4 x 9.6 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.7 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,026,676 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)