Steven Holl est un architecte dont l'œuvre se caractérise par une approche phénoménologique, explorant l'engagement existentiel et corporel des êtres humains avec leur environnement. Ce changement dans sa production créative a été influencé par son profond intérêt pour les écrits du philosophe Maurice Merleau-Ponty et du théoricien de l'architecture Juhani Pallasmaa. Ses créations invitent à une expérience profonde de l'espace, en soulignant sa perception sensorielle. L'architecture de Holl favorise une immersion plus profonde et une compréhension viscérale de l'environnement bâti.
Focusing on the newly constructed expansion of the Kennedy Center, this book explores innovative designs for performing arts centers while showcasing the artistic process. It highlights the vision of a prominent American architect, offering insights into how the space enhances artistic expression and community engagement.
A+U 1994 special edition covering the work of Holl, Pallasmaa, and, Perez-Gomez, titled Questions of Perception. Their three individual essays presented in the book, are thematically linked; each one tries to explain the role man's perception plays in architecture and also explores phenomenal accounts. In their original introduction, the authors write: "The endless cultural limitations and contradictions inherent in artistic work, revealed with impeccable clarity and logic by the critics' deconstructive theory, are ultimately of limited use for the generation of architecture. The architect must take a position, one that necessarily has ethical consequences, and for which words, a theoretical discourse is nevertheless indispensable.Bilingually presented in English and Japanese.
Internationally recognized for his ability to blend space and light with great contextual sensitivity, architect Steven Holl achieves his award-winning designs by beginning each commission with a small watercolor exploring light, color, and form. Paintings help Holl create a concept-driven design that showcases the unique qualities of each project. This collection of watercolors, which are works of art themselves, includes his most recent projects, from the JFK Center for the Performing Arts expansion and Hunters Point Public Library to University College Dublin.
As we learn in Parallax, Steven Holl s success comes from his sculptural form-making, his interest in the poetics of space, colour, and materiality, and his fascination with scientific phenomena. Holl reveals his working methods in this book, part treatise, part manifesto, and part, as Holl writes, "liner notes" to fifteen of his projects. Parallax traces Holl s ideas on topics as diverse as the "chemistry of matter" and the "pressure of light," and shows how they emerge in his architectural "criss-crossing" at the Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art in Helsinki, "duration" in the Palazzo del Cinema in Venice, "correlational programming" in the Makuhari housing in Japan. The result is a book that provides a personal tour of the work of one of the world s most esteemed architects. Parallax is designed by Michael Rock of the award-winning design firm 2x4.
This is the first publication of Steven Holls legendary watercolors.
This booklet describes Steven Holl Architects' design of a prototype for rebuilding Haiti after the devastating earthquake in 2010. This proposal focuses on the construction of "Dense-Pack Villages": small communities of two hundred people with homes constructed of concrete recycled from the rubble and built by local labour. The Dense-Pack homes have a low energy footprin, each village has a solar-powered desalination plant to provide fresh water, and the houses' roofs contain photovoltaic panels to generate electricity
The book gives an overview on the built work of Steven Holl, focusing the sculptural expression of his architecture, material, composition, use of light.
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.
Of the 516 entries received in the architectural competition for the Museum of Contemporary Art in Helsinki, an entry named 'Chiasma', became the undisputed winner. The submitting architect was Steven Holl and according to Museum Director Tuula "Undoubtedly any architect who was able to comprehend the nature of museum spaces in such a manner had to understand a great deal about art itself." This beautiful book documents in depth how Kiasma has introduced a new dimension to art museum architecture -- one of spatial strength and absence of gesture.
