ETS de Arquitectura de Granada has managed to organize Steven Holl's first conference in Spain, which will also be broadcast live. The conference will take place at ETS de Arquitectura next Wednesday, March 6 at 6 p.m.

The conference will revolve around his book "Questions of Perception", which marks 30 years since its first edition. In addition, Dimitra Tsachrelia, collaborator in Steven Holl's study and professor at Columbia University GSAPP with him, will give the conference "Architectonics of Music" which deals with the research he is conducting on the intersections between music and architecture.
«Questions of Perception» written in 1994 by Steven Holl together with co-author Alberto Pérez-Gómez and Juhani Pallasmaa, it is a book that explores the phenomenology of architecture through eleven "phenomenal zones": intertwined experience; perspective space; color; of lights and shadows; spatiality of the night; time, duration and perception; water: a phenomenal lens; Sound; detail: the haptic realm; proportion, scale and perception; place, circumstance and idea.

Incorporating recent projects by Steven Holl Architects completed after the book's publication, Holl reframes the "phenomenal zones" and connects new built works to these original concepts.


Architectonics of Music by Dimitra Tsachrelia. Photograph courtesy from ETSAG.

“Architectural Music” is an ongoing investigation, initiated in Steven Holl's studio at Columbia GSAPP, into the intersections between music and architecture, investigating how rhymes and resonances can serve as springboards for new vocabularies and forms for architecture.

Both music and architecture are inherently spatial and space-defining endeavors. Music is rooted in inhabiting space over time, acting, in the words of John Cage, “like a house to inhabit.” “Music Architecture” explores the ideas and approaches of both disciplines to encourage exploration of the vocabulary and language through which music and architecture can be renewed to facilitate new disciplinary visions.

This discussion will be illustrated through student work and projects built by Steven Holl Architects, including Maggie's Center Barts (London, 2017), Lewis Center for the Arts (Princeton, 2017), and Daeyang Gallery and House (Seoul , 2012).

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«Questions of Perception», March 6 at 18h.
«Architectonics of Music», March 6 at 12h.
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Steven Holl was born in 1947 in Bremerton, Washington. He graduated from the University of Washington and pursued architecture studies in Rome in 1970. In 1976 he attended the Architectural Association in London and established STEVEN HOLL ARCHITECTS in New York City. Considered one of America's most important architects.He has realized cultural, civic, academic and residential projects both in the United States and internationally. Most recently completed are the Cité de l'Océan et du Surf in Biarritz, France (2011).

Steven Holl is a tenured Professor at Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture and Planning. He has lectured and exhibited widely and has published numerous texts.

Recently the office has won a number of international design competitions including the new design for the Contemporary Art Institute at Virginia Commonwealth University (Richmond, USA) and he has been recognized with architecture's most prestigious awards and prizes. Recently, he received the RIBA 2010 Jencks Award, and the first ever Arts Award of the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Awards (2009). In 2006 Steven Holl received honorary degrees from Seattle University and Moholy-Nagy University in Budapest. In 2003 he was named Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA).

Steven Holl is a member of the American National Council of Architectural Registration Boards (NCARB), the American Institute of Architects, the American Association of Museums, the Honorary Whitney Circle, the Whitney Museum of American Art; and the International Honorary Committee, Vilpuri Library, of the Alvar Aalto Foundation.

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Dimitra Tsachrelia partner at Steven Holl Architects, has contributed to the design of academic and arts institutions since 2008 and has led the projects for the Hudson Valley office since 2016. Tsachrelia is currently leading the designs of the L-House in Hudson, New York, and the studio «Z» Space artist residency in Westchester (New York). She has coordinated the Hudson Valley Architectural Archive and Research Library Building (2019) and its expansion (2023), completed the Catskill Creek Addition (2022), and directed R&D projects, including the completion of the Ex of IN House ( 2016).

He also directed the competition for the Janacek Concert Hall in Ostrava (currently out for bid) and worked at the Institute of Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University (2018), the Glasgow School of Art (2014), and the Campbell Sports Center (2013).

She designed and coordinated the launch of the exhibition Steven Holl: Making Architecture. Tsachrelia graduated from the School of Architecture at the University of Patras and obtained the MSADD with honors from Columbia GSAPP in 2008, where she teaches alongside Steven Holl as an Assistant Adjunct Professor. She is a licensed architect in New York, holds Living Future accreditation for its holistic sustainable design standards, and is a LEED Green Associate. She serves on the board of directors of the Steven Myron Holl Foundation.
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Published on: March 3, 2024
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