Steven Holl Quotes

• 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

  Space, Links, Architecture

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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

  Always Trying, World, Limits

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• I think architecture, to be really intense and fulfilling, doesn't have to be large.

  Steven Holl

  Thinking, Architecture, Intense

  "Q+A with Steven Holl". Interview with Josephine Minutillo, www.architecturaldigest.com. December 31, 2011.

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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

  Space, Water, Darkness

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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

  Thinking, Giving, House

  Interview with Josephine Minutillo, www.architecturaldigest.com. December 31, 2011.

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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

  Morning, Brain, Looks

  "Steven Holl: “If Everybody Else Quits Drawing, It’s Fine With Me”". Interview with Martin Pedersen, www.metropolismag.com. March 20, 2013.

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• Princeton University's campus environment presents unique challenges and opportunities for architecture to act as a social condenser.

  Steven Holl

  Unique, Opportunity, Princeton University

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