Steven Holl

Steven Holl is a tenured Professor of Architecture who has taught at Columbia GSAPP since 1981. After completing architecture studies in Rome in 1970, the University of Washington in 1971, and graduate studies at London’s Architectural Association in 1976, Holl founded Steven Holl Architects in 1977. Based in New York City, the 28-person firm also has offices in Beijing and the Hudson Valley.

Steven Holl has realized cultural, civic, academic and residential projects both in the United States and internationally including the Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art in Helsinki, Finland (1998); the Chapel of St. Ignatius, Seattle, Washington (1997); Simmons Hall at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts (2002); the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Missouri (2007); the Horizontal Skyscraper in Shenzhen, China (2009); the Linked Hybrid mixed-use complex in Beijing, China (2009); Cité de l’Océan et du Surf in Biarritz, France (2011); the Reid Building at the Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland (2014); the Arts Building West and the Visual Arts Building at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa (2006, 2016); the Ex of IN House (2016); the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey (2017); Maggie’s Centre Barts in London, United Kingdom (2017); the Institute for Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia (2018); the Glassell School of Art and the Nancy and Rich Kinder Museum Building, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas (2018, 2020); The REACH expansion of the John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. (2019); Hunters Point Library in Queens, New York (2019); the Winter Visual Arts Center at Franklin & Marshall College (2020); the Cofco Culutral & Health Center in Shanghai, China (2021); the Loisium Hotel Expansion in Langenlois, Austria (2021), expanding on the concept for the resort’s original SHA design for the Loisium Hotel (2005) and Wine Center (2003); and the Rubenstein Commons at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey (2022).