Steven Holl delivers a lecture at the Faculty of Architecture of Porto University on 25th July

American architect Steven Holl will deliver a lecture at the Faculty of Architecture of Porto University (FAUP) on 25th July at 7 pm, in the Faculty's outdoor patio.

Holl is considered one of the greatest and most innovative architects of our time and will deliver a talk in Porto in the framework of the 6th edition of the Summer School Porto Academy 2018, promoted by the Faculty of Architecture of Porto University (FAUP).

The Summer School Porto Academy runs till 27th July and is jointly organised by the Casa da Arquitectura-Centro Português de Arquitectura.

Steven Holl is a New York-based American architect and watercolorist. Some of his most acknowledged work are designs for the 2003 Simmons Hall at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the 2007 Bloch Building addition to the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Missouri, and the 2009 Linked Hybrid mixed-use complex in Beijing, China.

Holl's architecture features a phenomenological approach, where the buildings are intertwined with their surroundings, the emphasis being the creative aspect of architecture. Holl's work reflects the flare of merging light and space, with particular attention to context and continuance, rather relevant in historic and cultural settings.

In 1998 Holl was awarded the prestigious Alvar Aalto Medal, established in 1967 by the Museum of Finnish Architecture, the Finnish Association of Architects (SAFA) and the Finnish Architectural Society in recognition of a significant contribution to creative architecture.

In 2000, Holl was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In July 2001, Time named Holl America's Best Architect, for "buildings that satisfy the spirit as well as the eye" and most recently, Steven Holl was awarded the Praemium Imperiale in 2014, the AIA Gold Medal in 2012, the RIBA 2010 Jencks Award and the first Arts Award of the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Awards (2009).