Museum of Modern Art Exhibition
BETWEEN TWO LINES Steven Holl Catalogue 2014
Designed by Gracia Salim 2014
BETWEEN TWO LINES Steven Holl
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Contents
CONTENTS
Foreword 4 Introduction 6 Between Two Lines 8 Collections 10 Architecture 14
Product Design 52 Watercolors 58
Bibliography 64
Foreword
This year is a special one for America. “Between Two Lines� has brought the greatest work of Steven Holl and we are here to celebrate it. We are grateful to the Director and Trutees of Museum of Modern Art for making this remarkable event possible.
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This new exhibition of the work of Steven Holl Architects presents nine most magnificent building projects around United States and Europe, four industrial designed products, with some of his water-colour paintings. Included are three built works: Simmons Hall in Cambridge, Cite de l’Ocean et du Surf in Biarritz, France, and Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. Also featured are short videos of the built works. The exhibition is arranged quite chronologically from 20022014 through the rooms of the Schindler House, making physical the journey through a decade of thinking.
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Introduction
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Introduction
Steven Holl is a professor in the Graduate School of Architecture at Columbia University and an architect in New York. Steven Holl Architects, established in 1977, has won many awards and his work has been presented at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. In 1991, he created the final exhibition in the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis series Architecture Tomorrow, that featured the visionary work of 6 young architects.
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Introduction
Between Two Lines
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The idea of “Between Two Lines” suggests that in the world of contemporary art there are many parallel times. The notion of one on going time and its “grand narrative” of history is questioned. Museum of Modern Art is organized in four galleries, each with a different character.
suggests that in the world of the contemporary art there are many parallel times. The notion of one ongoing time and its “grand narrative” of history is questioned. Museum of Modern Art is organized in four galleries, each of them with a different character.
This exhibition offered an in-depth look at the design process for the new Museum of Modern Art at VCU, created by Steven Holl Architects. Coordinated by the Anderson Gallery for the VCU School of the Arts, Between Two Lines is included more than 30 study models with numerous concept drawings and digitally animated renderings. It was first seen at the Meulensteen Gallery in New York City last spring. The idea of “Between Two Lines”
This exhibition offered an in-depth look at the design process for the Museum of Modern Art at VCU, created by Steven Holl Architects. Coordinated by the so called Anderson Gallery for the VCU School of the Arts, Between Two Lines included more than 30 study models with numerous concept drawings and digitally animated renderings. It was first seen at the Meulensteen Gallery in New York City last spring.
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Collections
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Architecture Product Design
Watercolors
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Architecture
“You can say I’m not the easiest architect in the world, because I’m always trying to push the limits.”
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Sarphatistraat Offices
Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1996-2000 PROGRAM: new headquarters for housing developer CLIENT: Woningbouwvereniging Het Oosten ADDITION & RENOVATION: 3,500 & 50,000 sf
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In Amsterdam, on the Singel Gracht, the renovated building is a four-story brick “U” merging internally with a new “sponge” pavilion. While the exterior expression is one of complimentary contrast (existing brick adjacent to new perforated copper) the interior strategy is one of fusion. The porous architecture of the rectangular pavilion is inscribed with a concept from Morton Feldman’s music, “Patterns in a Chromatic
Field.” The ambition to achieve a space of gossamer optic phenomena with chance-located color is especially effective at night when the color patches reflect in the De Single Canal. The layers of perforated screens are developed in three dimensions, analogous to the “Menger Sponge” principle of openings that are continuously cut in planes and constantly approaching zero volume.
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CREDITS Heleen van Heel (project team) architect – Steven Holl Architects Steven Holl (design architect) Justin Korhammer (project architect) Hideaki Ariizumi, Martin Cox, Annette Goderbauer, Yoh Hanaoka,
structural engineer – Ingenieursgroep Van Rossum mechanical engineer – Technical Management
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Pratt Institute, Higgins Hall Insertion Brooklyn, NY, United States, 1997-2005
PROGRAM: wing for an architecture school containing: lobby, gallery, studios, auditorium, digital resource center, review room, gallery terrace, workshops CLIENT: Pratt Institute SIZE: 22,500 sf
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Architecture
The dissonance between the floor plates is opened at the centre with panes of clear glass, allowing a view to the east court and marking an entry to the west. A two-throated skylight marks the top, striking dissonance and joining two types of light. South and north light at are combined analogous to the most harmonious sounds in a dissonant chord. Brick from the burned of its section is recycled into
a slumped brick and concrete base forming an entrance and show viewing terrace. Rising from the burnt brick is a great concrete frame as it supported on 6 columns spanned with the concrete and will sheathed with the structural glass planks. An economical industrial material with translucent insulation, an the planks span to form between floors, will then creating a translucent glow at unbelievable night.
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CREDITS architect – Steven Holl Architects Steven Holl (design architect) Tim Bade (associate in charge) Makram El-Kadi (project architect) Martin Cox, Annette Goderbauer, Erik Fenstad Langdalen (project team)
structural engineer – Robert Silman Associates mechanical engineer – Ove Arup lighting consultant – Arc Lighting Design construction manager – F.J. Sciame Construction Co., Inc.
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School of Art & Art History, University of Iowa Cambridge, MA, United States, 1999-2002
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PROGRAM: Art and art history building, including facilities for sculpture, painting, printmaking, graduate studios, administrative offices, gallery, and library CLIENT: University of Iowa SIZE: 70,000 sf
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The new School of Art and Art History is a hybrid instrument of open edges and open to center; instead of an object, the building is a “formless� instrument. Implied rather than actual volumes are outlined in the disposition of spaces. Flat or curved planes are slotted together or assembled with hinged sections. Flexible spaces open out from studios in warm weather. The main horizontal passages are meeting places with interior glass walls that reveal workin-progress. The interplay of light is controlled through a
piece of shading created by the overlapping planar to exterior. Exposed of tension rods section of the partial bridge section contribute to the linear and planar of and architecture. Interior floors are framed in exposed steel and concrete planks, with lmany integrated air and services distribution in the core voids. The resulting of the architecture is a hybrid of vision of the future, combining bridge and loft spaces, an theory with practice and human requirements with scientific principles.
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CREDITS architect – Steven Holl Architects Steven Holl, Chris McVoy, Martin Cox (design architect) Martin Cox (associate in charge) Li Hu, Gabriela Barman-Kraemer (project architect) Arnault Biou, Regina Chow, Elissavet Chryssochoides, Hideki Hirahara, Brian Melcher, Chris
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Otterbine, Susi Sanchez, Irene Vogt, Urs Vogt (project team) local architect – Herbert Lewis Kruse Blunck Architecture structural engineer – Guy Nordenson and Associates
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Simmons Hall
Cambridge, MA, United States, 1999-2002 PROGRAM: 350 bed dormitory including a dining hall, auditorium, and other shared facilities CLIENT: Massachusetts Institute of Technology SIZE: 195,000 sf
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The undergraduate residence is envisioned with the concept of “porosity.” It is a vertical slice of city, 10 stories tall and 382’ long, providing a 125 seat theatre, a night café, and street level dining. The “sponge” concept transforms the building via a series of programmatic and bio-technical functions. The building has five large openings and corresponding to the main entrances, view corridors, and
outdoor activity terraces. Large, dynamic openings are the lungs, bringing natural light down and moving air up. Each of the dormitory’s single rooms truly has nine operable windows. An 18” wall depth shades out the summer sun while allowing the low angled winter sun to help heat the building. At night, light from these windows is rhythmic and undoubtedly magical.
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CREDITS architect – Steven Holl Architects Steven Holl, Tim Bade (design architect) Tim Bade (project architect) Mohammed Ziad Jamaleddine, Anderson Lee (assistant project architect) Gabriela Barman-Kraemer, Peter Burns, Annette Goderbauer, Mimi Hoang, Mohammed Ziad Jamaleddine, Matt
Johnson, Makram El-Kadi, Erik Fenstad Langdalen, Anderson Lee, Rong-hui Lin, Stephen O’Dell, Christian Wassmann (project team) project engineer – Guy Nordenson and Associates – Simpson Gumpertz & Heger
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The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
Kansas City, MO, United States, 1999-June 9, 2007
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PROGRAM: museum addition and renovation CLIENT: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art SIZE: 165,000 sf CONSTRUCTION COST: $85,900,000
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This competition winning addition is composed of five interconnected structures as opposed to a single massive expansion. Traversing from the existing building across its sculpture park, the five built “lenses” form new spaces and angles of vision. From the movement through the landscape and threaded between the light openings, exhilarating new experiences of the existing Museum will
be formed. Circulation and exhibition merge as one can look from one level to another, from inside outside. The “meandering” path in the sculpture garden above has its sinuous compliment in open flow through the continuous level of the new galleries. Glass lenses could bring different qualities of light to the most galleries while the sculpture garden’s has pathways wind through them.
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Little Tesseract
Dutchess County, NY, United States, 2001-2001 PROGRAM: solarstack prototype SIZE: 1500 sf
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A hollow charcoal cube is warped by distorting forces of the opening triangle of light from above. This cubic wooden structure is linked by an exoskeletal steel “L” to an existing stone “U.” The link, like a porch, is a temperate and with operable glass. From the central room of the stone “U” one moves down a slight ramp in the steel “L.” Space then overlaps diagonally to connect upward toward of the
triangle of light. This central spatial and connection fuses to the contrasting materials. A solar stack wall in structural glass planks heats the cube in winter and cools via stack effect in summer. PV cells assist the electrical system. Steel windows slice through the dark stucco on steel plate blades forming viewing frames from the interior with unified white plaster head/jamb/sill.
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CREDITS architect – Steven Holl Architects Steven Holl, Solange Fabião (design architect) Chris Otterbine, Laura Sansone (project architect) Makram El-Kadi, Anderson Lee, Christian Wassmann, Urs Vogt (project team) fabricator – The Orchard Group
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Turbulence House
NM, United States, 2001-2005 PROGRAM: guest house CLIENT: Richard Tuttle / Mei Mei Berssenbrugge SIZE: 900
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Adjacent to adobe houses built by the artist Richard Tuttle, this small construction sits atop a windy desert mesa. It is imagined like the tip of an iceberg indicating a much larger mass below. The form allows turbulent wind to blow through its center. Though the stressed skin and aluminum rib construction is then digitally prefabricated in Kansas City then bolted together on site. A total of 31 metal panels, each with a unique shape are
fabricated to form the “shell� of the house. The second Turbulence House, made for an exhibition in Vicenza, Italy, is in a private sculpture park in Italy. The metal fabricator utilizes on the digital definition combined with craftsmanship to produce intricate shapes. By means of parametric logic, materials can be converted into engineered assemblies with an prior accuracy once considered quite impossible to many regular other houses.
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CREDITS architect – Steven Holl Architects Steven Holl (design architect) Anderson Lee, Richard Tobias (project architect) Arnault Biou, Matt Johnson (project team)
structural engineer – Delapp Engineering metal panel fabricator – A. Zahner Company
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Cite de l’Ocean et du Surf Biarritz, France, 2005-2011
PROGRAM: exhibition area, auditorium, restaurant, cafeteria and offices CLIENT: City of Biarritz / Adim Sud Ouest SIZE: 3800 sm
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The Cité de l’Océan et du Surf Museum intends to raise awareness of oceanic issues and anexplore educationaland scientific aspects of the surf and sea and their role upon our leisure, science, and ecology. The project, designed in collaboration with Solange Fabião, which is comprised of the museum building, also exhibition areas, and a plaza, within a larger master plan. The same building form derives from the spatial kind
concept “under the sky” ”under the sea”. A concave “under the sky” shape creates a central gathering plaza, open to sky and sea, with the horizon in the distance. The convex structural ceiling forms the “under the sea” exhibition spaces. This concept generates a unique profile and form for the building, and through its insertion and efficient site utilization, the project integrates seamlessly into the surrounding landscape.
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CREDITS architect – Steven Holl Architects Solange Fabião, Steven Holl (design architect) Rodolfo Dias (project architect) Chris McVoy (project advisor) Filipe Taboada (assistant project architect) Francesco Bartolozzi, Christopher Brokaw, Cosimo Caggi-
ula, Rychiee Espinosa, Florence Guiraud, Richard Liu, Maki Matsubayashi, Johanna Muszbek, Ernest Ng, Alessandro Orsini, Nelson Wilmotte, Ebbie Wisecarver, Lan Wu, Christina Yessios (project team) – Rüssli Architekten Justin Rüssli, Mimi Kueh, Stephan Bieri, Björn Zepnik (project team DD/CD)
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T Space
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Dutchess County, NY, March 2010-Oct 3, 2010 PROGRAM: gallery house
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On a four acre site in Dutchess County, New York, a new wooden “T” space sits near a stone “U” house from 1952, which has a steel “L” addition from 2001. The new gallery floats over this very natural landscape. It has nine steel columns and nine elevations, all integrated via proportions of 1:1.618.
A rain skin of natural 2x2 cedar is suspended on stainless steel screws. There is no plumbing, or sheetrock. The interiors are painted plywood and the floor is sanded marine plywood with all the stains of the 4 month construction process exposed. Wooden windows, doors and skylights were specifically built
for this space. The gallery is reached from the east by a gently sloping wooden ramp, and exited on a wooden ramp through the south elevation which is a large pivoting wall. Light comes from skylights, cut to achieve 25 foot candles of natural light on the walls, eliminate the need for electricity.
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CREDITS architect – Steven Holl Architects Steven Holl (design architect) Garrick Ambrose (project architect) Chris McVoy (project advisor) Jackie Luk, Lautaro Pereyra, Jeanne Wellinger (project team) structural engineer – Silman Associates, PC. fabricator – JLP Home Improvement
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Product Design
“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.”
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Riddle Table 2006
PROGRAM: table: lasercut Canaletto walnut with a vegetal oil finish CLIENT: Horm Srl
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Product Design
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Product Design
Riddle Cabinet 2006
PROGRAM: cabinet: lasercut Canaletto walnut and aluminum with vegetal oil finish CLIENT: Horm Srl
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Riddle Table 2007
PROGRAM: table: lasercut Canaletto walnut and aluminum with vegetal oil finish and a glass top CLIENT: Horm Srl
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Quartodiluna 2008
PROGRAM: mirror with laser cut texture; shelf in canaletto walnut with laser engravings CLIENT: Horm Srl
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“I paint daily with watercolors on 5-by-7inch pads that are small enough for me to take them everywhere.�
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Watercolor
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Bibliography
1. “SCHOOL OF ART & ART HISTORY, UNIVERSITY OF IOWA” from http://www. stevenholl.com/project-detail.php?id=46 2. “T SPACE” from http://www.stevenholl.com/project-detail.php?type=museums&id=117 3. “SIMMONS HALL, MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY” from http:// www.stevenholl.com/project-detail.php?id=47 4. “SARPHATISTRAAT OFFICES” from http://www.stevenholl.com/project-detail.php?id=41&worldmap=true 5. “PRATT INSTITUTE, HIGGINS HALL INSERTION” from http://www.stevenholl. com/project-detail.php?type=educational&id=43 6. “TURBULENCE HOUSE” from http://www.stevenholl.com/project-detail. php?type=houses&id=53 7. “CITE DE L’OCEAN ET DU SURF” from http://www.stevenholl.com/project-detail.php?type=museums&id=63 8. “LITTLE TESSERACT” from http://www.stevenholl.com/project-detail.php?type=houses&id=52 9. “SIMMONS HALL, MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY” from http:// www.stevenholl.com/project-detail.php?id=47 10. “INSTITUTE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY” from http://www.stevenholl.com/project-detail.php?type=museums&id=123 11. Steven Holl’s Paintings from http://www.stevenholl.com/painting.php 12. Steven Holl’s quote from http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/s/ steven_holl.html 13. “Steven Holl: Forking Time Exhibition Opening, Private Reception” from http://ica.vcu.edu/2013/10/04/steven-holl-forking-time-exhibition-opening-private-reception/ 14. “QUARTODILUNA” from http://www.stevenholl.com/project-detail.php?type=productdesign&id=107&page=0 15. “RIDDLED TABLE 2007” from http://www.stevenholl.com/project-detail. php?type=productdesign&id=94&page=0 16. “RIDDLED TABLE 2006” from http://www.stevenholl.com/project-detail. php?type=productdesign&id=92&page=0 17. “RIDDLED CABINET” from http://www.stevenholl.com/project-detail.php?type=productdesign&id=91&page=0
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