Steven Holl is an American architect and artist whose work draws on contemporary theories of phenomenology. He has been at the forefront of efforts to oppose the seemingly ubiquitous trend towards digitalization for forty years. His approach to design is that imaginative buildings can only come from the human hand. He calls the process itself a thought and design duo. Holl paints watercolours at every stage of a building’s construction: from the idea to the finished object.

This exhibition explores Holl’s distinctive creative process with eleven of his projects. Despite their geographic span (four continents) and programmatic diversity (from healthcare facilities to libraries, art centres and museums), all of these projects share a common trait – the thought and execution duo of well-functioning architecture.