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For me, the excitement in architecture revolves around the idea and the phenomenon of the experience of that idea. Residences offer almost immediate gratification. You can shape space, light, and materials to a degree that you sometimes can't in larger projects.
~ Steven Holl
Almost
Architecture
Around
Degree
Excitement
Experience
Gratification
Idea
Immediate
Larger
Light
Materials
Me
Offer
Phenomenon
Projects
Revolves
Shape
Sometimes
Space
You
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Frank Lloyd Wright made houses right up until the end. I think that's important because it gives you a direct connection to all the basic aspects of architecture - the spatial energy of the place, the construction, the materials, the site, the detail.
~ Steven Holl
Architecture
Aspects
Basic
Because
Connection
Construction
Detail
Direct
Direct Connection
End
Energy
Frank
Frank Lloyd Wright
Gives
Houses
I Think
Important
Made
Materials
Place
Right
Site
Spatial
Think
Until
Up
Wright
You
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I choose work that is hard to pull off. And it's scary how things can go wrong. But if there's no risk involved, it's not challenging. A good idea will survive any process.
~ Steven Holl
Any
Challenging
Choose
Go
Good
Good Idea
Hard
How
Idea
Involved
Off
Process
Pull
Risk
Scary
Survive
Things
Will
Work
Wrong
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I grew up in a wood cabin on Puget Sound in Manchester, Wash. My family taught me to appreciate the arts and the outdoors, and I still yearn for the absolute silence I experienced there when I was young.
~ Steven Holl
Absolute
Appreciate
Arts
Cabin
Experienced
Family
Grew
Manchester
Me
Outdoors
Silence
Sound
Still
Taught
Up
Wash
Wood
Yearn
Young
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I paint daily with watercolors on 5-by-7-inch pads that are small enough for me to take them everywhere.
~ Steven Holl
Daily
Enough
Everywhere
Me
Pads
Paint
Small
Take
Them
Watercolors
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I think architecture, to be really intense and fulfilling, doesn't have to be large.
~ Steven Holl
Architecture
Fulfilling
I Think
Intense
Large
Really
Think
design
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I'm sorry to say, but 85% of so-called 'green' firms make some of the ugliest buildings that were ever made. So for God's sake, I don't want to be categorized with them.
~ Steven Holl
Buildings
Categorized
Ever
God
Green
Made
Make
Sake
Say
So-Called
Some
Sorry
Them
Ugliest
Want
Were
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My studio cube is an experiment in solar heating and design. The south wall is covered with glass planks that collect and distribute heat naturally to my work studio on the second level.
~ Steven Holl
Collect
Covered
Cube
Design
Distribute
Experiment
Glass
Heat
Heating
Level
Naturally
Second
Solar
South
Studio
Wall
Work
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Princeton University's campus environment presents unique challenges and opportunities for architecture to act as a social condenser.
~ Steven Holl
Act
Architecture
Campus
Challenges
Environment
Opportunities
Presents
Princeton
Social
Unique
University
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Some architects, such as John Lautner, never really did anything other than houses. His entire portfolio is basically residential. There's nothing wrong with that.
~ Steven Holl
Anything
Architects
Basically
Did
Entire
His
Houses
John
Never
Nothing
Other
Portfolio
Really
Some
Than
Wrong
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The whole notion of an embassy is like 'The Other.' That's what makes Washington interesting.
~ Steven Holl
Embassy
Interesting
Like
Makes
Notion
Other
Washington
Whole
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You can say I'm not the easiest architect in the world, because I'm always trying to push the limits.
~ Steven Holl
Always
Architect
Because
Easiest
Limits
Push
Say
Trying
World
You
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09 December, 1947
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