Word: architecturee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Paul A. Marx, of Somerville, had been a history of architecture instructor at the Harvard Extension School since 1981.
He demanded that MOMA mount only black-and-white photographs of his work because he believes color photos encourage an appreciation of the merely picturesque in architecture. He insisted that some of the walls of the gallery be covered with rough plaster, like many of Holl's own interiors. And...
Since he has completed only a dozen architectural works, Holl is best known for the dinner plates and candlesticks he designed for the upscale marketers Swid Powell. But in his buildings he has found a way out of architecture's tired to-and-fro between caricature modernism (the neurotic Rubik...
While he calls himself a modernist, Holl has conscientiously learned backward-looking lessons about building scale. "Buildings in general are too big," he says. "I'm happy doing houses and buildings a bit bigger than houses." The two largest projects Holl has designed, a planned addition to the University of...
A MOMA show marks the growing influence of Steven Holl, 41, whose ascetic yet lyrical architecture points a way out of the modernism-classicism standoff.