Steven Holl. Making Architecture - exhibition at the Prague NTK

Exhibition Date: October 8 – November 22, 2022
Opening: Friday, October 7, 2022, at 5:00 PM
Where: NTK Gallery, Technická 6, Prague 6
Exhibition Curator: Tadeáš Goryczka
Exhibition Organizer: Architecture Cabinet in collaboration with NTK Gallery

The Architecture Day Festival will conclude on Friday, October 7, 2022, with the opening of the exhibition STEVEN HOLL: Making Architecture with the author's personal attendance. The exhibition will showcase eleven completed projects by American architect Steven Holl, one of the most successful figures in world architecture. Two projects for the Czech Republic will also be displayed: the design of a concert hall in Ostrava and the extension project for the Ghetto Museum in Terezín titled Space of Light. The exhibition, prepared by the Architecture Cabinet and the Gallery of Fine Arts in Ostrava, will take place in Prague at NTK Gallery/National Technical Library in Prague and will last until November 20, 2022.
This is a traveling exhibition organized by the Steven Myron Holl Foundation and curator Nina Stritzler-Levine for the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, which, after touring the United States, will subsequently be seen in Japan, South Korea, China, and now in Europe. The exhibition reveals the complex and individual process of creating these projects. It presents initial designs, watercolor sketches that are significant to Steven Holl and that he creates daily. These are supplemented by spatial models, author comments, media responses, and photographs of the buildings, including documentation of the construction process. Represented are, for example, the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, the Jinbao Mountain Necropolis in Taiwan, a library in Malawi, a concert hall for Ostrava, and the new design solution for the Ghetto Museum in Terezín.
STEVEN HOLL (December 9, 1947, Bremerton, Washington) is a world-renowned American architect whose buildings reflect a fascination with scientific phenomena and play with light. He primarily focuses on cultural buildings and educational facilities. Steven Holl studied at the University of Washington in Rome and the Architectural Association in London (1976). He began his career in California and opened his own office in New York in 1976. He has taught at the University of Washington in Rome, Syracuse University in New York, and since 1981, he has been at the prestigious Columbia University in New York. In 1998, he received the prestigious Alvar Aalto Medal. In 2000, Holl was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In July 2001, Time magazine named him America's Best Architect for "buildings that satisfy both the spirit and the eye." Other awards and honors include the award for Best Architectural Design in New York for The Pace Collection showroom in 1986 from the American Institute of Architects (AIA), the Honor Medal from the New York American Institute of Architects (1997), the French Grande Médaille d’Or (2001), and the Smithsonian Institution’s Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award for Architecture (2002). He is an honorary member of the Royal Institute of British Architects / RIBA (2003) and recipient of the Arnold W. Brunner Memorial Prize awarded by the American Academy of Arts and Letters in the field of architecture, and the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in 2008 in the arts category. In 2007, Steven Holl Architects received the AIA Institute Honor Award and the AIA New York Chapter Architecture Merit Award, the Building Building West Award for the School of Art and Art History (University of Iowa), Higgins Hall Insertion at Pratt Institute (Brooklyn, New York), and New Residence. At the Swiss Embassy, he received the AIA New York Chapter Architecture Honor Award in 2007. In 2010, his design for the Herning Centre of the Arts in Denmark was awarded the RIBA International Award. The horizontal skyscraper Vanke Centre won the AIA Institute National Award in 2011 and the AIA NY Honor Award. In 2011, he was appointed a member of the Council for Development in Design and became a recipient of the AIA Gold Medal for 2012. In 2014, he received the Praemium Imperiale for Architecture. In 2016, he was named the laureate of the Daylight and Building Component Award for work with light in architecture.
This exhibition project is the result of a collaboration between the Architecture Cabinet, the Gallery of Fine Arts in Ostrava, NTK Gallery, and the Architecture Day Festival with Steven Holl Architects from New York.
The exhibition is under the patronage of Tomáš Macura, Mayor of the Statutory City of Ostrava, Ivo Vondrák, Governor of the Moravian-Silesian Region, and the Embassy of the USA in Prague.
Gallery NTK/National Technical Library in Prague, Technická 2710/6, 160 80 Prague 6 – Dejvice / 7. 10. - 20. 11. 2022 The opening of the exhibition will take place on Friday, October 7, at 5 PM with the personal attendance of architect Steven Holl and will conclude the Architecture Day Festival in Prague.

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