Guest of honour: Steven Holl Architects with the lecture “Art drives Architecture”
The lecture that Steven Holl Architects gave on 27 June in Rome at the DIASEN event “Views on Matter: the truth of making between architecture and art” has a powerful title: Art drives architecture. When art drives architecture, the boundaries between disciplines break down, creating a new space for the imagination. Sculpture, painting and music merge to generate innovative forms, in which architecture becomes a stochastic expression, that is, a random one, of the creative process, placing uncertainty at the centre of architectural design. STEVEN HOLL’s philosophical approach to architecture is influenced by “phenomenology”, a current of thought that explores subjective perception and the direct experience of the world. In architecture, this translates into particular attention to the way people perceive and experience spaces. For this reason Steven Holl Architects creates buildings that engage all the senses, and his work goes beyond visual aesthetics, offering a multisensory experience that makes every project unique and engaging. —- “We want an architecture that is integral rather than empirical, that has depth rather than breadth. We want an architecture that inspires the soul” – Steven Holl
