Steven Holl on Air, Light, Greenspace: A Post COVID Architecture

The integration of air, light, and greenspace has consistently motivated Steven Holls work. During a period of global pandemic, the need to carefully consider these aspects of the built environment is greater than ever before. This lecture focuses on past projects of Steven Holl Architects that hold potential lessons for a postCOVID architecture, focusing on principles such as the embrace of greenspace and landscape, maximizing fresh air and natural light, the facilitation of open circulation for social spaces, and ecological integration and innovation. Please note that there is a delay in the recording between 0:05:120:06:00 due to connection issues. There are no further delays in the About the 20202021 Soane Lecture Series: Color and Light In 1780, John Soane returned from the Grand Tour with a fresh eye for light and color daylight streaming through an oculus, marbles aglow in amber dusk, a rich red fragment of wall plaster from Pompeii. In the years that followed, S br, br,