That vision took form in 2010 with the founding of the Steven Myron Holl Foundation and the opening of the ‘T’ Space gallery, a narrow, T-shaped building that now anchors a broader cultural campus. What began as a small exhibition space has grown into a multidisciplinary program that includes artist residencies, lectures, performances, tours and an extensive archive of Holl’s work dating to 1977. The foundation’s mission is “to stimulate critical and theoretical exchange of ideas” across architecture, art, design, music, poetry and ecology.

Inside, the archive holds more than 1,200 models, 4,400 books and 20,000 watercolors. There’s also furniture, correspondence and material samples documenting Holl’s process, from early concepts to finished works like a major expansion of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts or the complex of towers interlinked around a public park in Beijing.

“His design approach is highly iterative rather than linear, and this makes it fascinating to see the evolution of a project from its initial concepts,” Ambrose said. “I’ve seen projects go through as many as 15 different schemes before arriving at the final direction.” Link to full article