Top 15 Quotes & Sayings by Steven Holl

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American architect Steven Holl.

Last updated on December 21, 2024.

Steven Holl is a New York-based American architect and watercolorist. Among his most recognized works are the 2019 REACH expansion of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the 2019 Hunters Point Library in Queens, New York, the 2007 Bloch Building addition to the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Missouri, and the 2009 Linked Hybrid mixed-use complex in Beijing, China.

American - Architect | Born: December 9, 1947

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I choose work that is hard to pull off. And it's scary how things can go wrong. But if there's no risk involved, it's not challenging. A good idea will survive any process.

Steven Holl

I paint daily with watercolors on 5-by-7-inch pads that are small enough for me to take them everywhere.

Steven Holl

The whole notion of an embassy is like 'The Other.' That's what makes Washington interesting.

Steven Holl

I think architecture, to be really intense and fulfilling, doesn't have to be large.

Steven Holl

My studio cube is an experiment in solar heating and design. The south wall is covered with glass planks that collect and distribute heat naturally to my work studio on the second level.

Steven Holl

I'm sorry to say, but 85% of so-called 'green' firms make some of the ugliest buildings that were ever made. So for God's sake, I don't want to be categorized with them.

Steven Holl

Some architects, such as John Lautner, never really did anything other than houses. His entire portfolio is basically residential. There's nothing wrong with that.

Steven Holl

For me, the excitement in architecture revolves around the idea and the phenomenon of the experience of that idea. Residences offer almost immediate gratification. You can shape space, light, and materials to a degree that you sometimes can't in larger projects.

Steven Holl

I grew up in a wood cabin on Puget Sound in Manchester, Wash. My family taught me to appreciate the arts and the outdoors, and I still yearn for the absolute silence I experienced there when I was young.

Steven Holl

Frank Lloyd Wright made houses right up until the end. I think that's important because it gives you a direct connection to all the basic aspects of architecture - the spatial energy of the place, the construction, the materials, the site, the detail.

Steven Holl

Princeton University's campus environment presents unique challenges and opportunities for architecture to act as a social condenser.

Steven Holl

You can say I'm not the easiest architect in the world, because I'm always trying to push the limits.

Steven Holl

I never look at the newspaper in the morning. That's the worst thing you can do with your brain.

Steven Holl

Architecture is bound to situation. And I feel like the site is a metaphysical link, a poetic link, to what a building can be.

Steven Holl

Anyone who has become entranced by the sound of water drops in the darkness of a ruin can attest to the extraordinary capacity of the ear to carve a volume into the void of darkness. The space traced by the ear becomes a cavity sculpted in the interior of the mind.

Steven Holl

Top 15 Quotes & Sayings by Steven Holl

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