Steven Holl

This is the most comprehensive monograph available on Steven Holl, one of America’s greatest living architects, and the only one written with the architect’s cooperation. Written by award-winning author and architecture critic Robert McCarter, it presents Holl’s most important works, realized and unrealized, from 1974 to today, and examines the architectural principles and concepts that underlie his designs.

Holl’s buildings are examined through analysis of his design process and ideas, as well as his methods and materials of construction. Experiential ‘walkthroughs’ of Holl’s buildings place the reader within the spaces and describe how they act to engage all the senses.

Holl is rightly considered the greatest of the third generation of American modern architects, following the first and second generations of Frank Lloyd Wright and Louis Kahn, whose work has served as both a source of inspiration and a standard for Holl’s work. This is the first in-depth survey of his work and its influence on the next generation.