Steven Holl
What distinguishes the work of the internationally renowned US architect Steven Holl is not only his extraordinary buildings with a focus on cultural and public buildings such as museums, art centers, concert halls, libraries and universities worldwide, but also his drawing oeuvre, which to date includes more than 50,000 sketches, black-and-white drawings and watercolors.
Steven Holl's international career began in 1988 when he won the competition for the Amerika-Gedenkbibliothek in Berlin. The large-format black-and-white drawings of his winning design are also the focus of this exhibition in the Museum for Architectural Drawing.
The basis of his work is based on Holl's three "principal missions": the art that drives architecture, the need for ecological excellence and the importance of space, light, material and detail as experimental phenomena. The exhibition presents, among other things, unrealized projects for the Palazzo del Cinema in Venice (1990) and Porta Vittoria in Milan (1986), as well as designs for well-known buildings such as the Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art in Helsinki (1993–1998), St. Ignatius Chapel for Seattle University (1994–1997), Maggie's Centre in London (2012–2017) and The REACH, Kennedy Center in Washington (2012–2019). The tour ends with Holl's sketches for his lakeside retreat in Rhinebeck near the Hudson River, his "ideal place" for drawing.
Visitors to the exhibition can only experience a small part of his overwhelming graphic work, but each of his drawings should be discovered and studied for themselves. That is what Steven Holl wants.
Opening: 6.2.2025, 7 pm.
Talk: 6.2.2025, 5 pm. with Steven Holl, Sergei Tchoban and Diana Carta in the Aedes Metropolitan Lab (registration required)