Students taking the course
Design Research and Methodology are required to read the monographs
on Steven Holl (#78 & #93, listed below). These will be available
on reserve in the McGill architecture library at the end of January. Students
should become familiar with the working methods of the architect, particularly
the role of concept diagrams. Students should also read the excellent
article by A. Pérez-Gomez in issue #93.
Steven Holl
El Croquis #78 & #93
Interviews, and articles by
Frampton ("The Work of Steven Holl: A Retrospective Prospect") and Pérez-Gomez
("The Architecture of Steven Holl: In Search of an Architecture of Specifics").
Holl's reference to a quote from Edgar Allen Poe:
"I don't believe I really begin to think until I sit down to write."
Pamphlet Architecture #9,
"Rural and Urban House Types in North America,
Princeton University Press, 1982
Anchoring ,1987
"Intuition led me to this hybrid mode between a conceptual framework and a phenomenological approach. I thought that light, texture, detail, and overlapping space, constituted a meaning that is silent and stronger than any textual manipulation. I began to formulate my intuitions when I read Matter and Memory by Henry Bergson. It was 1979... I was not interested in post-modernism or in creating a personal style for myself, rather in probing these two extremes of the ancient and the ultra-modern on each site."