Steven Holl Watercolors

"Architect Steven Holl offers a window on his design process by sharing watercolors and poems made parallel to his built works. This book presents the inspiration for fifteen projects realized over the past twenty-five-years from the Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art in Helsinky to Maggi's St. Batholomew's hospital in London, to the REACH, Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. As Holl writes, " the painter thinks in form and color. The poet thinks in words. Architecture must shape space and light driven by idea, forget of words, form, colors and materials toward a poetic creation""--Page 4 de la couverture.