House: Black Swan Theory by Steven Holl (Princeton Architectural Press 2007) presents 15 residences that give insight to Holl’s unique architectural perspective.
Steven Holl is best known for an architecture that considers place, time, and the senses of the viewer. This philosophy has created some of the richest and most celebrated buildings of the past several decades. In Holl’s own poetic voice, House describes fifteen residences (built and unbuilt) that give insight into the source of his unique architectural perspective, including his most current along with his best-known houses from the recent past. Ordered according to scale (largest to smallest), the houses in this book span the globe, ranging from a secluded location in Hawaii to the Catskill Mountains of New York, to Martha’s Vineyard, to The Hague in the Netherlands. Through Holl’s attempt to build into and with the site, these houses enhance and reveal the unique qualities of their locations. Holl inverts the usual universal-to-specific order by working from the specific toward the universal. By presenting a selection of his houses, Steven Holl suggests a ‘black swan’ theory for architecture – mutable and unpredictable.
– Steven Holl, House: Black Swan Theory (Princeton Architectural Press, 2007), book description
The text is in English. The book is illustrated with photographs and architectural drawings.
Our copy in stock is in very good condition. The pages are clean, no markings. The binding is fine. The dust jacket shows some small signs of shelf wear.
