Quotes by Steven Holl - Page 1

I think architecture, to be really intense and fulfilling, doesn't have to be large.
Steven Holl / Architect
Architecture
Fulfilling
Intense
Thinking
Large
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The whole notion of an embassy is like 'The Other.' That's what makes Washington interesting.
Steven Holl / Architect
Embassy
Interesting
Notion
Washington
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I never look at the newspaper in the morning. That's the worst thing you can do with your brain.
Steven Holl / Architect
Morning
Brain
Looks
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You can say I'm not the easiest architect in the world, because I'm always trying to push the limits.
Steven Holl / Architect
Always Trying
Architect
Limits
World
Easiest
World Always Trying
Push
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I paint daily with watercolors on 5-by-7-inch pads that are small enough for me to take them everywhere.
Steven Holl / Architect
Pads
Paint
Watercolors
Everywhere
Daily
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Architecture is bound to situation. And I feel like the site is a metaphysical link, a poetic link, to what a building can be.
Steven Holl / Architect
Architecture
Space
Links
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Princeton University's campus environment presents unique challenges and opportunities for architecture to act as a social condenser.
Steven Holl / Architect
Opportunity
Architecture
Campus
Princeton University
Unique
University
Presents
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Some architects, such as John Lautner, never really did anything other than houses. His entire portfolio is basically residential. There's nothing wrong with that.
Steven Holl / Architect
Architects
Portfolio
Houses
Residential
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I'm sorry to say, but 85% of so-called 'green' firms make some of the ugliest buildings that were ever made. So for God's sake, I don't want to be categorized with them.
Steven Holl / Architect
Green
Sake
Sorry
Buildings
Categorized
So-Called
Ugliest
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I choose work that is hard to pull off. And it's scary how things can go wrong. But if there's no risk involved, it's not challenging. A good idea will survive any process.
Steven Holl / Architect
Involved
Process
Risk
Scary
Work Good Will
Idea
Choose
Wrong
Good Idea
Off
Pull
Survive
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My studio cube is an experiment in solar heating and design. The south wall is covered with glass planks that collect and distribute heat naturally to my work studio on the second level.
Steven Holl / Architect
Covered
Heat
Wall
Naturally
Collect
Cube
Distribute
Experiment
Glass
Solar
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I grew up in a wood cabin on Puget Sound in Manchester, Wash. My family taught me to appreciate the arts and the outdoors, and I still yearn for the absolute silence I experienced there when I was young.
Steven Holl / Architect
Appreciate
Manchester
Silence
Absolute
Arts
Cabin
Experienced
Outdoors
Wash
Wood
Yearn
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Frank Lloyd Wright made houses right up until the end. I think that's important because it gives you a direct connection to all the basic aspects of architecture - the spatial energy of the place, the construction, the materials, the site, the detail.
Steven Holl / Architect
Architecture
Construction
Direct
Energy
Frank
Giving
House
Important
Made
Materials
Site
Spatial
Thinking
Because
Aspects
Basic
Connection
Detail
Direct Connection
Gives
Houses
Place
Right
Wright
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For me, the excitement in architecture revolves around the idea and the phenomenon of the experience of that idea. Residences offer almost immediate gratification. You can shape space, light, and materials to a degree that you sometimes can't in larger projects.
Steven Holl / Architect
Architecture
Excitement
Gratification
Materials
Phenomenon
Projects
Degree
Immediate
Larger
Offer
Revolves
Shape
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Anyone who has become entranced by the sound of water drops in the darkness of a ruin can attest to the extraordinary capacity of the ear to carve a volume into the void of darkness. The space traced by the ear becomes a cavity sculpted in the interior of the mind.
Steven Holl / Architect
Space
Darkness
Water
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