Steven Holl

Steven Holl, a key figure in American and international architecture, deals with the principal themes of contemporary architecture such as the use of space and materials and the value of abstraction in architectonic design.
This monograph deals with Holl's principal projects in the United States, Japan and Europe: the Knut Hamsun Museum in Bødo, Norway, the Museum for the City of Cassino, Italy, the Kiasma Museum in Helsinki, the Chapel of St. Ignatius in Seattle, the Nelson-Atkins museum in Kansas City, the Simmons Hall at the MIT in Boston, the extension of the Cranbrook Institute of Science in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan and the project for the extension and upgrading of the natural History museum of Los Angeles.
Considered one of the most original and qualified exponents of New American architecture, Holl (born in Bremerton, 1947) is creative and argumentative, an intelligent ecologist and professor at the Graduate School of Architecture at Columbia University and has held courses at various other institutes, including the University of Washington in Seattle, the Pratt institute, New York and Pennsylvania University.

Francesco Garofalo, professor of Architecture at Pescara University, is an expert on twentieth century Italian architecture. He is the author of a guide to Italian architecture 1960-90 (Zanichelli) and two monographs on Adalberto Libera (Electa and Zanichelli; American edition: Princeton Architectural Press).
He has made numerous contributions to reviews such as Domus, Casabella, Lotus International and Le Visiteur, he has curated two architecture competitions, one for the new centre of contemporary art in Rome (Electa) and the other for the extension of the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna di Roma (Allemandi).