Steven Holl

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Steven Holl : biography

December 9, 1947 –

Recognition and awards

In 1998, Holl was awarded the prestigious Alvar Aalto Medal. In 2000, Holl was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In July 2001, Time named Holl America’s Best Architect, for "buildings that satisfy the spirit as well as the eye." Other awards and distinctions include the New York American Institute of Architects Medal of Honor (1997), the French Grande Médaille d’Or (2001), the Smithsonian Institution’s Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award in Architecture (2002), Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects (2003), the Arnold W. Brunner Prize in Architecture from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the 2008 BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Arts category. In 2007, Steven Holl Architects received the AIA Institute Honor Award and the AIA New York Chapter Architecture Merit Award for Art Building West for the School of Art and Art History (University of Iowa, Iowa City). The Higgins Hall Insertion at Pratt Institute (Brooklyn, New York) and the New Residence at the Swiss Embassy both received the AIA New York Chapter Architecture Honor Award in 2007. In 2010, Herning Museum of Contemporary Art (Herning, Denmark) was awarded the RIBA International Award. The Horizontal Skyscraper-Vanke Center received the 2011 AIA Institute National Honor Award, as well as the AIA NY Honor Award. In 2011, he was named a Senior Fellow of the Design Futures Council.,Design Futures Council Senior Fellows http://www.di.net/about/senior_fellows/ and Holl was named the 2012 AIA Gold Medal winner.

Selected publications

Along with Pallasmaa and Alberto Perez-Gomez, 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.

  • Steven Holl: Educating our Perception, in “Magic Materials II”, Daidalos, August 1995.
  • 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.
  • Steven Holl: Parallax, Birkhäuser, New York, 2000
  • Steven Holl: Architecture Spoken, Rizzoli, 2007
  • Steven Holl: House – Black Swan Theory, Princeton Architectural Press, 2007
  • Steven Holl: Urbanisms: Working with Doubt, Princeton Architectural Press, 2009
  • Steven Holl: Horizontal Skyscraper, William Stout Publishers, 2011
  • Steven Holl: Scale, Lars Mueller Publishers, 2012
  • Steven Holl: Color, Light and Time, with essays by Sanford Kwinter and Jordi Safont-Tria, Lars Mueller Publishers, 2012

Early works

Kiasma, Helsinki, 1993-1998 Holl won first prize in the Amerika-Gedenkbibliothek International Library Design Competition in 1988, an expansion and renovation of the American Memorial Library in Berlin. In February, 1989 Holl’s work was exhibited in a solo show at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City. MoMA later purchased twenty-five works by Holl for the museum’s permanent collection. In the 1992 competition for a new contemporary arts museum in Helsinki, Finland, Holl’s entry, entitled "Chiasma," won first prize out of more than five hundred international entries. The museum opened to the public in 1998, having permanently adopted the name "Kiasma," the Finnish translation of "chiasma."

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