TEAM

Roberto Bannura has been with Steven Holl Architects since 2007 and was named partner in 2018. He oversees the projects developed in the Beijing office, working closely with Steven Holl and the New York team in design matters, while taking charge of the overall client and consultant team management. Roberto received his degree of Architect and Urban Planner from the Universidad de Chile in 1995, where he graduated Summa Cum Laude. He then continued his studies in Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile where he obtained a degree on Urban Economy in 1997. He has been the Associate-in-Charge for the Sliced Porosity Block in Chengdu, and the Project Director for Hangzhou Shan-Shui and the Ecology and Planning Museums in Eco-City Tianjin.

Molly Blieden joined Steven Holl Architects in 1992, and has been involved in the financial and contractual management and shaped the public presentation of most projects in the office during that time. She also has maintained an independent career as a practicing artist and educator. Ms. Blieden received her BA from Princeton and her MFA from Rutgers University in 1992. She participated in the Whitney Museum Independent Studio Program in 1992.

Peiwei Chang joined Steven Holl Architects in 2021. She completed M. Arch II program at University of Texas at Austin in 2019. She is currently working on ChinPaoSan Necropolis located in Taiwan.

Han Yuan Edward Chang joined Steven Holl Architects in 2020. He received his Master of Architecture degree from Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) in 2014 and was awarded the Merit Graduate Thesis Prize. He is currently working on ChinPaoSan Necropolis in Taipei, Taiwan.

Marisa Espe joined Steven Holl Architects in 2020 in the Hudson Valley office. She currently manages press, publications, contact relations, and outreach. In 2023 she served as deputy guest-editor of Domus under Steven Holl.

Yvonne Fang received her Master of Landscape Architecture from Harvard GSD and practiced as an urban designer with a focus on culture-centric, climate-responsive placemaking. Having extensive design research experience, she was awarded the H. Allen Brooks Travelling Fellowship by Dartmouth College in 2017. Yvonne joined Steven Holl Architects in 2023, where she crafts competition proposals, fosters client relationships, and manages design communications.

Maxwell obtained his architecture degree from the McEwen School of Architecture in Canada. Completing work focussed on mass timber design, ecological building and a unity of the arts and architecture. Max interned for SHA in 2020 to work on the Ostrava Concert Hall before returning to the firm in 2022 as a Junior Architect.

Michael Haddy joined SHA in early 2015 and has since been in charge of developing and maintaining the firm’s state of the art prototyping and fabrication facility. Over the past few years he has been involved with many of the active projects at SHA, playing both architect and fabricator roles. His main research area is concentrated on interaction between digital fabrication methods and artistic craft, building and maintaining relationships with partnering fabricators and artists from all over the world.  Many of the custom details the firm is known for originate in SHA shop such as lighting fixtures, castings, metals, glass, CNC millwork, 3D printed items, and much more. He holds a BA from Miami University and a Master of Architecture from University of Cincinnati’s DAAP.

Yining He joined Steven Holl Architects in 2020. He has been involved in various projects including the Chungnam Museum competition, the Catskill Creek Addition, and the Art/Life Interlock House. Yining currently is working on the Hudson L House and ‘Z’ Space as a project architect. Yining received his Bachelor of Architecture from Tongji University and Master of Science in Advanced Architectural Design from Columbia University. He was awarded the TEAM20 awards and the JWDA traveling fellowship.

Eleanore Ho has been a devoted member of the Steven Holl Architects team since 2007. Graduating from New York University in 2005 with a master’s degree in Performing Arts Administration, Eleanore infuses her creative insight and meticulous organizational skills into her role. Her responsibilities encompass a diverse range, including spearheading the development of competition proposals for the firm’s projects in China and preparing bidding proposals, fostering client relationships, and facilitating project communications. Furthermore, Eleanore’s adept involvement extends to the realms of financial and contractual management, where she plays an integral role in supervising the firm’s operations in China.

Steven Holl was born in 1947 in Bremerton, Washington. He graduated from the University of Washington and pursued architecture studies in Rome in 1970. In 1976 he attended the Architectural Association in London and in 1977 established STEVEN HOLL ARCHITECTS in New York City. Considered one of America’s most important architects, Steven Holl is recognized for his ability to blend space and light with great contextual sensitivity and to utilize the unique qualities of each project to create a concept-driven design. He specializes in seamlessly integrating new projects into contexts with particular cultural and historic importance. Steven Holl has been recognized with architecture’s most prestigious awards and prizes. Recently, Steven Holl received the 2014 Praemium Imperiale, the 2012 AIA Gold Medal, the RIBA 2010 Jencks Award, and the first ever Arts Award of the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Awards (2009). In 2012, Steven Holl received the Alumnus Summa Laude Dignatus Award from the University of Washington, and has received honorary degrees from Seattle University and Moholy-Nagy University in Budapest. In 2003 he was named Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA). In 2002 the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum, part of the Smithsonian Institute, awarded him their prestigious National Design Award in Architecture. In 2001 France bestowed the Grande Médaille d’Or upon him, for Best Architect of the Academy of Architecture; and in the same year Time Magazine declared him “America’s Best Architect” for his ‘buildings that satisfy the spirit as well as the eye’. Steven Holl is a tenured Professor at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture and Planning. He has lectured and exhibited widely and has published numerous texts including Anchoring (1989), Intertwining (1996), Parallax (2000), Idea and Phenomena (2002), Luminosity/Porosity (2006), House: black swan theory (2007), Architecture Spoken (2007), Urbanisms: Working with Doubt (2009), Hamsun Holl Hamarøy (2010), Horizontal Skyscraper (2011), Color Light Time (2012), and Scale (2012). Most recently published is Urban Hopes (2013). Steven Holl is a member of the American National Council of Architectural Registration Boards (NCARB), the American Institute of Architects, the American Association of Museums, the Honorary Whitney Circle, the Whitney Museum of American Art; and the International Honorary Committee, Vilpuri Library, of the Alvar Aalto Foundation.

Jongseo Lee is a senior associate at Steven Holl Architects, and the associate in charge of all projects in Korea. Jongseo holds a M.Arch from Columbia University’s GSAPP, and a M.Arch and B.Arch in Architecture Engineering from Yongsei University in Seoul, Korea. He has been the project architect for numerous projects in the office including the Daeyang Gallery and House (Seoul, Korea), Sliced Porosity Block (Chengdu, China), envelope design and construction administration for the Kennedy Center Expansion (Washington, D.C.), the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University (Princeton, USA), the Visual Arts Building at University of Iowa (Iowa City, IA), the Reid Building at Glasgow School of Art (Glasgow, UK) and the Institute for Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University (Richmond, VA). He has acted as project designer on Linked Hybrid (Beijing, China), and has been on the project team of the Herning Museum of Contemporary Art (Herning, Denmark), Nanjing Sifang Art Museum (Nanjing, China), Horizontal Skyscraper-Vanke Center (Shenzhen, China), NYU Department of Philosophy (New York, NY), and the Beirut Marina and Town Quay (Beirut, Lebanon). Along with his built experience, Jongseo has led the team for several international competitions including WDPC (Seoul, Korea) and the Busan Cinema Complex (Busan, Korea). Currently, he is the associate in charge of Meander Housing (Helsinki, Finland) which he has overseen since the project’s competition phase.

Zhenya Li holds M.Arch from University of Michigan in 2019 and joined Steven Holl Architects in the same year. He has worked on several competitions and is currently working on ICarbonX in Shenzhen.

Chris McVoy has been with Steven Holl Architects since 1993 and was made partner in 2000. He is responsible for overseeing the projects in the New York office, working closely with Steven Holl and clients to finalize the program, design, and budget, and coordinating and managing the full consultant team, including associate architects. He has been the partner-in-charge and co-designer for the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, the Whitney Water Purification Facility and Park, the Campbell Sports Center at Columbia University, and the Glasgow School of Art. He is currently partner-in-charge for the Institute for Contemporary Art at VCU, and the new Visual Arts Building at the University of Iowa. Chris McVoy received his Bachelors Degree in Architecture from the University of Virginia and his Masters of Architecture from Columbia University. He was honored with a Guggenheim Studentship in 1985; a William Kinne Travel Fellowship and an American Scandinavian Foundation Grant.

Talya received her Bachelor of Architecture from Pratt Institute in 2021 and joined SHA in the spring of 2022. She is currently working on Akbuk Dense Pack in Akbuk, Turkey.

Yun Shi earned a Masters in Advanced Architectural Design from Columbia University in 2013. Yun also holds a B.Arch from Beijing University of Technology and M.Arch from Syracuse University. She joined Steven Holl Architects in 2013. She is the project architect for IcarbonX Shenzhen and the winning competition for the Mumbai City Museum. Other major contributions include design work for CIFI HQ in Beijing, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the Institute for Advanced Study, Taipei ChinPaoSan Necropolis and Qingdao Art Center.

Olaf Schmidt has been with Steven Holl Architects since 2002. He is the Associate in Charge of the Queens Library project for the Department of Design and Construction, and was Associate in Charge of the Campbell Sports Center at Columbia University in New York City, and the Knokke Heist Casino Development in Belgium. While at SHA he has been the Project Architect for the Residence at the Swiss Embassy in Washington (2006) and the Loisium Hotel in Austria (2005). Mr. Schmidt received his Masters Degree in Architecture from ETH Zurich.

Wenying Sun joined Steven Holl Architects in 2012. She received a M.Arch degree from Iowa State University and her B.Arch from Harbin Institute of Technology in China. Wenying is currently project architect on the University of Pennsylvania’s Student Performing Arts Center and designer on a new hotel project in Gran Sasso, Italy. She has also worked on Taiwan ChinPaoSan Necropolis as project architect, Copenhagen Gate L&M in Denmark, Shan-shui Hangzhou and ICarbonX headquarters in Shenzhen.

Filipe Taboada received his architecture degree from Oporto Lusíada University in 2004 and joined Steven Holl Architects in 2006. He has worked on several projects such the Herning Museum of Contemporary Art (Herning, Denmark), Cite De L’Ocean Et Du Surf (Biarritz, France), Horizontal Skyscraper-Vanke Center (Shenzhen, China), Queens Library (NY, USA), Frederic Malle Perfume Store (NY, USA) and the Museum of Fine Arts Houston (Houston, TX, USA).

Lirong received his Bachelor of Architecture from Syracuse University. Subsequently he earned his master’s degree in Advanced Architectural Design from Columbia University in 2018 and was awarded the Lucille Smyser Lowenfish Memorial Prize. Lirong joined Steven Holl Architects in June 2018. He has worked on IcarbonX Headquaters, Loisium Hotel Expansion, Chicago University in Paris, Powerhouse Parramatta, Qianhai International Financial Exchange Center, and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He is the project architect for the Ostrava Concert Hall, currently in Construction Documents.

Dimitra Tsachrelia has led the Hudson Valley office’s projects since 2019 and contributed to the design of academic and arts institutions since 2008. Dimitra coordinated the Hudson Valley Architectural Archive and Research Library Building (2019), realized the Snake Road Addition (2022), and is leading the designs for the Hudson L-House and ‘Z’ Space. She has led R&D projects including the Ex of IN House (2016), the competition for the Janacek Concert Hall in Ostrava (currently in construction documents), and worked on the Institute for Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University (2018), the Glasgow School of Art (2014), and the Campbell Sports Center (2013). She designed and coordinated the launch of the exhibition Steven Holl: Making Architecture on world tour since 2018.

Dimitra received her Diploma from the School of Architecture at Patras University. She obtained her MSADD with honors from Columbia University, GSAPP in 2008, where she co-teaches with Steven Holl as Adjunct Assistant Professor. She is a licensed architect in New York, holds the Living Future Accreditation for holistic sustainable design standards, and is a LEED Green Associate. She serves on the board of directors at the Steven Myron Holl Foundation.

Moises received his degree of Architect from the Universidad de Chile in 2009. He earned a master’s degree in Urban Design and Planning from Chongqing University, China in 2012. Moises joined Steven Holl Architects in 2019. He is currently working on ICarbonX in Shenzhen, China. 

Ruoyu Wei is a New York State registered architect. He holds a Master degree in Advanced Architectural Design from Columbia University and a Bachelor degree in Architecture from Tianjin University.  He is currently in charge of several international competitions and a residential project in Saudi Arabia. Ruoyu has been invited as a guest critic at Columbia University, Syracuse University, University of Nebraska Lincoln, New York City College of Technology and Pratt Institute.

Noah Yaffe has been with Steven Holl Architects since 2004 and was named partner in 2011. He attended Colorado College and received his Masters in Architecture from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design. He is currently the partner-in-charge for several projects, including the Rubenstein Commons at the Institute for Advance Study, and recently completed the Lewis Arts Complex at Princeton University and the new Seona Reid Building at the Glasgow School of Art, in Glasgow, Scotland. He was Associate in Charge for several projects, including the Knut Hamsun Center in Hamarøy, Norway, and the Herning Museum of Contemporary Art in Herning Denmark, which both opened in 2009.