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Intertwining.
Steven Holl.
About halfway through Steven
Holl's second small-format monograph for Princeton Architectural
Press sits the Museum of Contemporary Art in Helsinki, Finland.
Better known as Kiasma, the building's concept
lies in the intertwining of nature and culture, determined
by site, program and imagination. The project's location
in the book is intentional, it serving as an important marker
in Holl's career, where he becomes an architect on the international
scene, where he abandons strict orthogonality for an architecture
that embraces curves, and where the scale of his built work
grows beyond primarily houses and interiors. With the first
monograph, Anchoring, covering buildings and projects
from 1975-1988 and Intertwining spanning 1989-1995,
the next installment is just about due, with many notable
designs continuing the architects development beyond
these two initial concepts.
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