Comprehensive monograph on one of America's greatest living architects
by award-winning author and architecture critic Robert McCarter.
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.
Richly illustrated with hundreds of colour photographs and Holl's own
watercolours.
