Steven Holl, one of the world's most influential architects, was born in 1947 in Washington, US. Holl is highly acclaimed as the most influential architect due to its unique architectural designs. When designing buildings, Holl allowed the site where they are built to define the form and character of these buildings (Kiasma, 2020). Through his work, Steve Holl has managed to win more recognition and awards for a very long time, and he continues to lead the construction and real estate industry through his innovative and unique ideas.
Holl attended the University of Washington in 1971 and later proceeded to Rome to further his architectural studies. Later on, Holl joined a graduate school called the Architectural Association School that is located in London. However, when he returned to US, Holl launched a practice in New York City while still serving on the faculty of the University of Colombia (Kiasma, 2020) . The work of Holl entails many buildings across various cities around the world; some of his famous buildings include Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma in Helsinki , Nanjing Sifang Art Museum in Nanjing, China, and American Memorial Library found in Berlin, among others. However, Steve Holl's later work focused on urban buildings with a mix of residential and commercial projects, and most of these projects were based in China. The tasks involved the linked hybrid building, which is more complex because it contained restaurants, hotels, apartments, and schools located in Beijing and the Shenzhen horizontal skyscraper famously know as Vanke Centre.
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Over the years, Steve Holl managed to win the various award, which includes the Alvar Aalto Medal, which he won in 1998, The Copper Hewitt National Design Award for architecture won in 2002, The American Institute of Architects Gold Medal won in 2021, and the lastly The Japan Art Association's Praemium Imperiale prize for architecture which he won in 2014. Despite the many awards he won over the years, Steve Holl continued with the architectural work. Also, he taught students at the University of Colombia the relationship that exists between architecture and music.
References
Kiasma. (2020, May 25). Steven Holl | Great contemporary architects. Mino Caggiula Architects . Retrieved from https://www.minocaggiula.ch/en/steven-holl/
