Steven Holl & Robert McCarter | Architectural Explorations in Book Series Event
Saturday, Dec 5, 201511:45 AMEDT
| New York Public Library, Stephen A Schwarzman Building, Celeste Auditorium New York, NY
New York, NYRelated
Chapel of St. Ignatius, Seattle, Washington, USA, 1994-1997; view from reflecting pond, 1997. Reprinted from Steven Holl (Phaidon, 2015). Photo credit: © Paul Warchol
Joins for an unprecedented conversation with renowned American architect Steven Holl and Robert McCarter, architect and author of the new monograph Steven Holl. Steven Holl (Phaidon, November 2015) is the most comprehensive monograph on one of America’s greatest living architects by award-winning author and architecture critic Robert McCarter. The book features realized and unrealized works, each richly illustrated with Holl’s own watercolors and hundreds of color photographs. McCarter has known and taught with Holl for over thirty years and this monograph provides an authoritative and personal examination of one of today’s leading architects. Copies of the book are available for purchase and signing at the end of event. Steven Holl is an American architect and watercolorist, best known for his designs for the 2003 Simmons Hall at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts, 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. He is a tenured faculty member at Columbia University, where he has taught since 1981. Holl has been awarded the Praemium Imperiale Award, AIA Gold Medal and Jencks Award of the RIBA. Robert McCarter is a practicing architect and has been Ruth and Norman Moore Professor of Architecture at Washington University in St. Louis since 2007. He has written for numerous international publications, and his books include Aalto (2014); Carlo Scarpa (2013); Understanding Architecture, co-authored with Juhani Pallasmaa (2012); Louis I Kahn (2005); On and By Frank Lloyd Wright: A Primer of Architectural Principles (2005); Frank Lloyd Wright (1997); Unity Temple (1997); and Fallingwater (1994), all by Phaidon Press. He has also published Wiel Arets: Autobiographical References (2012); Frank Lloyd Wright: Critical Lives (2006); and William Morgan: Selected and Current Work (2002), among other books. Saturday, December 5 Conversation 3:00pm – 4:15pm Booking signing 4:15pm – 4:45pm New York Public Library, Stephen A Schwarzman Building, Celeste Auditorium The event is free and open to the public Doors open at 2:30pm, seating is first come, first served New York Public Library
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