STEVEN HOLL ARCHITECTS

April 21, 2025 — Steven Holl to Lecture at Columbia GSAPP’s Kenneth Frampton Symposium: Housing and Domesticity

Unlike the sprawl of individual suburban villas, our original concept of ‘dense pack villas’—designed to preserve the natural landscape—is now being realized at Riviera Kaplankaya.

Selected Projects

Ostrava Concert Hall

2023–2027

Student Performing Arts Center, UPenn

2023–2026

Riviera Kaplankaya Dense Pack

2023–2026

Terezín Ghetto Museum

Nancy and Rich Kinder Museum Building, MFAH

2011–2020

Winter Visual Arts Center, Franklin and Marshall College

2016–2020

The REACH Kennedy Center

2012–2019

Hunters Point Library

2010–2019

Lewis Arts Complex, Princeton University

2007–2017

Ex of IN House

2015–2016

More Projects

Located in Upstate New York, the Hudson L-House serves as a live-work space for modern furniture gallerists—a midcentury collector’s paradise.

Architecture is a form of poetry written in space, light, and material. We seek a level of meaning that goes beyond function to reach the metaphysical aspect of design. Each site offers a poetic link to what a building can be.

The 1,300-seat concert hall for the city of Ostrava, Czech Republic, is the new home for the Janáček Philharmonic Orchestra, the leading Czech symphony orchestra.

The Luminist Architecture of Steven Holl — CBS Sunday Morning

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ANCHORING

We aspire to architecture unique to its site and circumstance. Rather than imposing a style, we aim to realize poetic and functional architecture where each site is the physical and metaphysical foundation.

PERCEPTION

We believe in the experiential dimensions of architecture: natural light, daily and seasonal changes, fusion with landscape, spatial progressions, water, materials, and details. Architecture, like music, is an immersive experience.

INTERTWINING

We engage communities and expert consultants from the beginning of each design. Collaboration underlies our process and advances our aspirations of inclusivity, accessibility, and ecological innovation.