Steven Holl – Color Light Time

Color Light Time sets out to examine the current work of New York-based architect Steven Holl, one of the most outstanding representatives of contemporary American architecture. For nearly three decades now, Steven Holl has developed his architectural idiom and his reflections on architecture with striking consistency. The success of his work can be attributed to its sculptural shaping, his interest in the poetics of space, color, light, and material, and his fasci nation with scientific phenomena. Numerous illustrations and three essays closely examine archetypical aspects of visual perception, which play an essential role in Holl’s work.

Steven Holl is an American architect, perhaps best known for the 1998 Kiasma Contemporary Art Museum in Helsinki, Finland, the 2003 Simmons Hall at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and the praised 2009 Linked Hybrid mixeduse complex in Beijing, China.

Color Light Time sets out to examine the current work of New York-based architect Steven Holl, one of the most outstanding representatives of contemporary American architecture. For nearly three decades now, Steven Holl has developed his architectural idiom and his reflections on architecture with striking consistency. The success of his work can be attributed to its sculptural shaping, his interest in the poetics of space, color, light, and material, and his fasci nation with scientific phenomena. Numerous illustrations and three essays closely examine archetypical aspects of visual perception, which play an essential role in Holl’s work.

Steven Holl is an American architect, perhaps best known for the 1998 Kiasma Contemporary Art Museum in Helsinki, Finland, the 2003 Simmons Hall at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and the praised 2009 Linked Hybrid mixeduse complex in Beijing, China.

With contributions by Jordi Safont-Tria, Sanford Kwinter, Steven Holl

Design: Integral Lars Müller

12.6 x 16.8 cm, 5 x 6 ½ in

144 pages, 72 illustrations

hardback

2012, 978-3-03778-252-1, English
CHF 30.00
Out of print

Steven Holl

Steven Holl (*1947) is one of the most important architects in America. He founded Steven Holl Architects in 1976 and has realized award-winning projects worldwide such as the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma in Helsinki, the Nanjing Sifang Art Museum in Nanjing, China, or the LM Harbor Gateway in Copenhagen, Denmark. Holl’s planning is influenced not only by the surroundings, the architecture and the purposes, but also by his peculiar attention to the interconnection of architecture and visual and performing arts, physics and music. He is a tenured professor at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture and Planning and has taught at the University of Washington, the Pratt Institute, and the University of Pennsylvania.