15 Facts About Steven Holl

Steven Holl is the son of Myron Holl of Washington state and Helen Mae Holl of Alabama.

Steven Holl has described his father as "full blooded Norwegian".

Steven Holl received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Washington in 1971.

In 1998, Steven Holl was awarded the prestigious Alvar Aalto Medal.

In 2000, Steven Holl was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

In 2007, Steven Holl Architects received the AIA Institute Honor Award and the AIA New York Chapter Architecture Merit Award for Art Building West for the School of Art and Art History.

In 2014, Steven Holl was awarded the Praemium Imperiale Prize for Architecture.

In 2016, Steven Holl was awarded The Daylight and Building Component Award by the VELUX Foundation.

Steven Holl is a tenured professor at Columbia University, where he has taught since 1981 with Dimitra Tsachrelia.

Steven Holl frequently teaches on the relationship between music and architecture.

In 2010, Steven Holl founded 'T' Space, a multidisciplinary arts organization in Rhinebeck, New York.

Steven Holl won first prize in the Amerika-Gedenkbibliothek International Library Design Competition in 1988, an expansion and renovation of the American Memorial Library in Berlin.

In February, 1989 Steven Holl's work was exhibited in a solo show at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.

In designing the Chapel of St Ignatius, Jesuit chapel at Seattle University, Steven Holl addressed the campus's need for green space by siting the chapel in the center of a former street and elongating the building plan.

Steven Holl designed the Chapel around St Ignatius's vision of the inner spiritual life, "seven bottles of light in a stone box", by creating seven volumes of different light.