Archinect - Features

The Proust Questionnaire: Steven Holl

2017-10-10T09:00:00-04:00

This week, for our Proust Questionnaire, we are featuring answers from Archinect favorite Steven Holl, who discusses his love of hybrid buildings, enjoying one's work, and dying at the drawing board.

Archinect's Summer Reading List: recommendations from Steven Holl, Kate Wagner, Diana Agrest, Katya Tylevich, Jenny Sabin and Samuel Bravo

2017-07-26T15:36:00-04:00

The summer months are the ideal time to peruse a book from your beach towel, airplane seat, hotel bed, or more likely, the coffee shop you are hiding away from your unconditioned apartment at. From a novel starring an architect-protagonist to one about the Russian Revolution to architectural theory and a biography of the gene, here are some books to dive into this summer.

Frank Gehry, Steven Holl, Liz Diller, Rem Koolhaas and Others Share Crucial Moments in Their Education

2016-09-30T12:19:00-04:00

What is the role of education in shaping a visionary architect? Several contemporary architects reflect on how the environment, curriculum, and tangential opportunities of their formal learning influenced and shaped their design sensibility.

Inside Pamphlet: How one of the most enduring experimental architecture publications got its start

2016-02-12T12:38:00-05:00

The first issue of Pamphlet Architecture, the high-minded zine-like experimental publication started in 1978 by architect Steven Holl and bookseller William Stout, wasn’t exactly readable. “Its cover was printed by Mark Mack on letterpress in black ink on black paper,” Holl recounted over email, describing the publication’s beginning. Pamphlet 1: Bridges “drew scorn from the head of Rizzoli Publications in New York who told us, ‘It’s impossible to see; we can’t carry it.’”

"A Dance for Architecture": A conversation with Steven Holl

2015-11-20T13:31:00-05:00

As a 34-year old architect, Steven Holl was appointed to a full-time teaching position at Columbia University with barely any completed works to his name, based on the strengths of his publication Pamphlet Architecture, previous teaching stints at Syracuse University and the University of Pennsylvania, and his competition entries. But rather than settling into academia, Holl continued to hone his conceptual formulations to create real buildings that incorporate a signature use of color, a notion of ‘poetry’ within physical places, and a constant refinement of his foundational architectural convictions.

Screen/Print #22: Interview with Steven Holl for "MacMag39"

2014-08-14T14:32:00-04:00

The Glasgow School of Art’s architecture is a concise conversation between old and new. Recent events on campus, however, tipped the discussion in favor of the contemporary — a new building by Steven Holl Architects opened, and just a few weeks later, a fire ravaged the school’s historic Mackintosh Library, directly across the street. This conversation between the traditional and contemporary, and the eventual transition of the contemporary into the traditional, is built into MacMag, the architecture school’s annual publication.