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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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