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The New York Public Library

 

presents

 

Architectural Explorations in Books Series Event

 

Steven Holl

 

Steven Holl

in conversation with

Robert McCarter

 

Saturday December 5, 2015

3:30 p.m. 

 

Celeste Auditorium
South Court, Lower Level

 

The New York Public Library

Stephen A. Schwarzman Building

5^th Avenue at 42^nd Street

New York, NY 10016

917-275-6975

 www.nypl.org

(directions)

 

 Auditorium doors open to public at 3:00 p.m.
All events are FREE and subject to last minute change or cancellation

 

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.

 

In its seventh year Architectural Explorations in Books, initiated and organized by Arezoo Moseni, is a series of engaging programs delving into the critical role that architecture publications play in the understanding of contemporary urban developments and structures. The events feature book presentations and discussions by acclaimed architects, critics, curators, designers, photographers and writers.

 

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