Steven Holl Biography

American designer and theoretician Steven Holl (1947) is among the best-known and most prominent designers of the contemporary age thanks to his tasks developed primarily in New York and in the Orient (China, Japan, South Korea).
After finishing from Seattle University and studying in London and Rome, he opened Steven Holl Architects in New York City in 1976.
In his vast production Holl synthesises "philosophical thinking and design methods" in research study which is at the same time "experience and criticism" (Heck-Chiarone).
In his crucial essay Anchoring (1989 ), Holl specifies the "dialectic relationships" between structures and locations: clear examples include his New York tasks of the eighties, which brought his studio fame and acknowledgment.
His Pool House in New York (1981) and Linked Hybrid in the Museum of Modern Art Apartment (1986) expose the constructions' geographical and historic elements; his showroom for the Pace Collection (1986) clearly exposes the poetics of the De Stjil movement. His workplaces for D.E. Shaw & Co (1992) and high effect façade for the Storefront for Art and Architecture (1993) are also worthwhile of note.
His tasks in Europe include the extremely speculative Kiasma Contemporary Art Museum in Helsinki.
Holl has developed many crucial single-family homes (Berkowitz-Odgis House, Stretto House) and housing complexes, including a number of in Japan: the Void Space in Fukuoka (1991 ), in which Holl underlines the "void" of Buddhist cosmology, and the 190 Makuhari Bay systems in Chiba (1996 ).
His current tasks in China have actually had an excellent social impact: the Culture and Art Center in Qingdao City and the Ecocity Ecology-Planning Museums in the nation's very first ecological city (Tianjin Eco City).