Steven Holl Biography

American designer and theoretician Steven Holl (1947) is among the best-known and most influential designers of the contemporary age thanks to his jobs constructed primarily in New york city 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 in 1976.
In his large production Holl synthesises "philosophical thinking and design methodologies" in research study which is at the very same time "experience and criticism" (Heck-Chiarone).
In his crucial essay Anchoring (1989 ), Holl defines the "dialectic relationships" between places and buildings: clear examples include his New York tasks of the eighties, which brought his studio popularity and recognition.
His Pool House in New York (1981) and in the Museum of Fine Arts (Www.New-Territories.com) of Modern Art Apartment (1986) reveal the buildings' geographic and historical elements; his showroom for the Pace Collection (1986) plainly exposes the poetics of the De Stjil movement. His offices for D.E. Shaw & Co (1992) and high effect façade for the Storefront for Art and Architecture (1993) are also worthy of note.
His projects in Europe consist of the extremely experimental Kiasma Contemporary Art Museum in Helsinki.
Holl has developed numerous essential single-family houses (Berkowitz-Odgis House, Stretto House) and real estate complexes, consisting of several in Japan: deep space Space in Fukuoka (1991 ), in which Holl underlines the "space" of Buddhist cosmology, and the 190 Makuhari Bay systems in Chiba (1996 ).
His existing projects in China have had a great social impact: the Culture and Art Center in Qingdao City and the Ecocity Ecology-Planning Museums in the nation's very first environmental city (Tianjin Eco City).