Steven Holl

Steven Holl is a tenured faculty member at Columbia University where he has taught since 1981. In July 2001, Time Magazine named Steven Holl as America’s Best Architect, thanks to his ‘buildings that satisfy the spirit as well as the eye.’ Most recently, Steven Holl was awarded the 2012 AIA Gold Medal and the 2010 Jencks Award of the RIBA. Others accolades include the first ever Arts Award of the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Awards (2008), Honorary Fellowship in the Royal Institute of British Architects (2003), the Smithsonian Institute’s Cooper Hewitt National Design Award in Architecture (2002), the French Grande Medaille d’Or (2001), the prestigious Alvar Aalto Medal (1998), and the New York American Institute of Architects Medal of Honor (1997).