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Steven Holl

Steven Holl nació en 1947 en Bremerton, Washington. Se graduó de la Universidad de Washington y cursó estudios de arquitectura en Roma en 1970. En 1976 asistió a la Architectural Association de Londres y estableció Steven Holl Architects en Nueva York.

Steven Holl ha dado cuenta de proyectos culturales, cívicos, académicos y residenciales, tanto en los Estados Unidos como a nivel internacional. Su Notable trabajo incluye el Museo Kiasma de Arte Contemporáneo de Helsinki, Finlandia (1998), la Capilla de San Ignacio, Seattle, Washington (1997), y el Museo Nelson-Atkins de Arte (2007).

Dentro de sus proyectos más reciente se encuentra el Linked Irbid, complejo de uso mixto en Beijing, China (2009), el Centro de Knut Hamsun en Hamarøy, Noruega (2009) , El Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Herning en Herning, Dinamarca (2009), y el rascacielos horizontal en Shenzhen, China (2009),Steven Holl es profesor de la Escuela de Arquitectura y Urbanismo de la Universidad de Columbia. Ha dictado conferencias, realizado numerosas exposiciones y publicado numerosos textos tales como Anchoring (1989), Parallax (2000), Idea and Phenomena (2002), y Luminosity/Porosity (2006). Dentro de sus publicaciones más recientes se encuentran Urbanisms: Working With Doubt (Princeton Architectural Press, 2009) and Hamsun Holl Hamarøy (Lars Müller, 2010).

(Tomado de Sociedad Colombiana de Arquitectos)

Honores

2007 AIA/COTE Top Ten Green Project / Whitney Water Purification Facility and Park
2007 AIA NY Architecture Honor Award / Higgins Hall Center Section at the Pratt Institute, Brooklyn
2007 AIA NY Architecture Honor Award / New Residence at the Swiss Embassy, Washington, D.C.
2007 AIA NY Architecture Merit Award / School of Art & Art History, University of Iowa, Iowa City
2007 AIA Institute Honor Award, School of Art & Art History, Iowa City
2006 Honorary Doctorate, Seattle University, Seattle
2006 Maholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, Budapest, Hungary
2006 AIA Iowa Honor Award of Excellence / School of Art & Art History, Iowa City
2006 Roger H. Corbetta Merit Award, Concrete Industry Board / Central Section Higgins Hall
2006 New York Chapter American Institute of Architects Merit Award / Planar House
2006 New York Chapter American Institute of Architects Citation / Sail Hybrid, Knokke Heist, Belgium
2005 New York Chapter American Institute of Architects Honor Award / Lake Whitney Water Purification Plant
2005 Benjamin Moore Hue Award
2004 International Parking Institute, Award of Excellence for best design of a parking facility, Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
2003 NY AIA Project Award for Loisium Visitors' Center, Langenlois, Austria
2003 Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects
2003 AIA National Honor Award / Simmons Hall, MIT Undergraduate Residence
2002 Cooper Hewitt National Design Award for Architecture
2002 New York AIA Design Award / Simmons Hall, MIT Undergraduate Residence
College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, University of Minnesota
2001 L’Academie D’Architecture’s Grande Medaille d’Or (Paris)
2001 Seattle AIA Design Award / Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA
2000 Progressive Architecture Awards / Nelson Atkins Museum of Art; MIT Undergraduate Residence 2001
1999 New York AIA Design Award / Cranbrook Institute of Science, Bloomfield Hills, MI
1999 New York AIA Project Award / Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
1999 National AIA Design Award / Kiasma, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki
1998 Chrysler Award for Innovation in Design
1998 Alvar Aalto Medal
1998 National AIA Design Award / Chapel of St. Ignatius, Seattle University
1997 Japanese Building Contractors Society Award / Makuhari Housing, Chiba, Japan
1997 National AIA Religious Architecture Award / Chapel of St. Ignatius, Seattle University
1997 New York AIA Medal of Honor Award
1996 Progressive Architecture Awards / Knut Hamsun, Bødo, Norway; Museum of the City, Cassino, Italy
1995 NYC AIA Design Awards / Cranbrook Institute of Science, MI; Chapel of St. Ignatius
1993 NYC AIA Architecture Project Award / Makuhari Housing, Makuhari, Japan
1993 AIA National Honor Award / Texas Stretto House, Dallas, Texas
1992 AIA National Honor Award / D.E. Shaw & Co. Offices, New York, NY
1991 NYC Art Commission Excellence in Design Award The Renovation of the Strand Theater, Brooklyn, NY
1991 AIA National Honor Award / Hybrid Building, Seaside, FLA

(Tomado de Archinnovations)

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Steven Holl Architects: Design Excellence and Green Innovation

Steven Holl Architects is a 40-person innovative architecture and urban design office working globally as one office from two locations; New York City and Beijing. Steven Holl leads the office with senior partner Chris McVoy and junior partner Noah Yaffe. Steven Holl Architects is internationally-honored with architecture's most prestigious awards, publications and exhibitions for excellence in design. Steven Holl Architects has realized architectural works nationally and overseas, with extensive experience in the arts (including museum, gallery, and exhibition design), campus and educational facilities, and residential work. Other projects include retail design, office design, public utilities, and master planning.
(Tomado de Steven Holl Architects)