The Jerusalem Seminar in Architecture
Previous Conferences // 1998: Megaform as Urban Landscape // Speakers
21 - 23 June 1998

Steven Holl

A 1969 graduate of the University of Washington, Steven Holl completed his post-graduate studies in Italy and at the Architecture Association in London. After a series of prototypical, somewhat abstract studies, he began to build in earnest with his Cohen Apartment in New York of 1984 and then with his Berkowitz House realized in Martha's Vineyard in 1987. These seminar works, together with his prize-winning scheme for the AGB Library in Berlin, were featured in his 1989 one-man show at the Museum of Modern Art. This exhibition had the effect of consolidating Holl's national and international reputation. Between 1992 and 1997 Holl designed and built two large housing schemes in Japan; the light-weight, vaulted Stretto House in Texas; an extension to the Cranbrook Institute of Science in Michigan; and the St. Ignatius Chapel in Seattle. In 1993 Holl won the open competition for the Museum of Contemporary Art in Helsinki and this, his largest commission to date, is now nearing completion in the centre of the city. Holl has elucidated his theories in a series of books: Anchoring (1989), Questions of Perception (1994) and Intertwining (1996). His megaform proposal for the urbanisation of the region surrounding Dallas/Fort Worth, known as Spiroid Sectors (1990), is typical of his work on the urban-landscape scale. Holl has been teaching in the School of Architecture at Columbia University since 1976, and currently holds a tenured position there. In 1997 he received the New York AIA Medal of Honor.
Steven Holl

Cranbrook Institute of Science, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, USA








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