Global Architecture (GA) Architect 11: Steven Holl (English and Japanese Edition

Global Architecture (GA) Architect 11: Steven Holl (English and Japanese Edition) Steven Holl is an American architect and watercolorist, perhaps best known for the 1998 Kiasma Contemporary Art Museum in Helsinki, Finland, the 2003 Simmons Hall at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the celebrated 2007 Bloch Building addition to the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Missouri, and the praised 2009 Linked Hybrid mixed-use complex in Beijing, China. Holl won first prize in the Amerika-Gedenkbibliothek International Library Design Competition in 1988, an expansion and renovation of the American Memorial Library in Berlin. In February 1989 Holl's work was exhibited in a solo show at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City. MoMA later purchased twenty-five works by Holl for the museum's permanent collection. In the 1992 competition for a new contemporary arts museum in Helsinki, Finland, Holl's competition entry, entitled "Chiasma," won first prize out of more than five hundred international entries. The museum opened to the public in 1998, having permanently adopted the name "Kiasma," the Finnish translation of "chiasma." Steven Holl's design for Simmons Hall of MIT won the Harleston Parker Medal in 2004. Bloch Addition to the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art The Knut Hamsun Center in Hamarøy, Norway. Holl has taught at Columbia University since 1981.