Steven Holl: Architect. This item is unavailable.Steven Holl: Architect

This in-depth monograph is devoted to one of the leading United States architects on the contemporary scene: Steven Holl (b.1947). Illustrated by a large portfolio of photographs, 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.

Kenneth Frampton is a world-respected architectural critic who holds the Ware Professorship in Architecture at Columbia University, New York. He lectures extensively in the USA and Europe, inlcuding at the ETH in Zurich, the Berlage Institute in Amsterdam, the Royal College of Art in London and, most recently, at the Architecture Academy of the Swiss-Italian University, Mendrisio, Switzerland. He has also written, edited and contributed to a great number of publications on twentieth-century architecture. Phaidon will publish his collected writings as Labour Work & Architecture in May 2002. Author's Residence: New York City