Steven Holl Architects (SHA) is an internationally recognized, innovative architecture and urban design office with locations in New York City and Beijing. Steven Holl founded the firm in 1976 and it now has a total staff of 40. The firm has been recognized with numerous awards, publications, and exhibitions for quality and excellence in design, including the 2016 VELUX Daylight Award, 2014 Praemium Imperiale Award for Architecture, 2012 Gold Medal from the AIA (American Institute of Architects), 16 AIA Honor Awards, 29 AIA Regional Awards, the 2010 RIBA Jencks Award, the 2009 BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award, the 2001 Grande Médaille D’Or from the French Academie D’Architecture, and the 1998 Alvar Aalto Award. Steven Holl was named by Time magazine as “America’s Best Architect,” for creating “buildings that satisfy the spirit as well as the eye.”
Steven Holl Architects specializes in educational and cultural projects, such as the Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art in Helsinki, Finland; the Cranbrook Institute of Science; the NYU Department of Philosophy; the University of Iowa’s Art Building West & Visual Arts Building; and the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, which The New Yorker called “one of the best museums of the last generation.”
Most recently, SHA completed the University of Iowa Visual Arts Building (Iowa City, Iowa), Ex of IN House (Rhinebeck, NY), Reid Building at The Glasgow School of Art (Glasgow, UK), Columbia University’s Campbell Sports Center (New York, NY) and the Sliced Porosity Block (Chengdu, China). The firm’s current work in construction includes the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey), the Institute for Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University (Richmond, Virginia), a campus expansion for the Museum of Fine Arts Houston (Houston, Texas), and the John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts Expansion in Washington, D.C.
SHA has completed a total of 66 projects worldwide, with 45 projects in the United States and 21 buildings overseas, in a total of 15 countries.
