After Thom Mayne’s introduction, Steven Holl shows a video clip of himself lecturing at SCI-Arc on September 19, 1990 (Available at https://channel.sciarc.edu/browse/steven-holl-pretheoretical-ground-september-19-1990)

Holl proposes to survey many projects briefly – three slides each – in order to focus on the ideas behind the design. Asking, “What’s the cause? What’s the imaginary cause?
•1977. Gymnasium-Bridge, South Bronx
•1980-1. Bridge of Houses (the High Line, NYC)
•1984-8. House, Martha’s Vineyard
•1988. Amerika-Gedenkbibliothek, Berlin
•1989-90. Edge of a city projects in Phoenix & Dallas
•1989-91. Void space/Hinged space housing, Fukuoka
•1989-91. Stretto house, Dallas
•1990. Palazzo del cinema, Venice
•1992-8. Kiasma Museum, Helsinki
•1992-6. Makuhari Bay New Town housing block, Chiba
•1993-8. Cranbrook Institute of Science, Bloomfield Hills
•1994-7. Chapel of St. Ignatius, Seattle
•1998-2005. Whitney water purification facility and park, Hamden
•1994-2009. Knut Hamsun Center, Hamarøy
•1996-2000. Sarphatistraat offices, Amsterdam
•1997-9. Y-House, Catskill
•1997-2005. Higgens Hall insertion, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn
•1999-2002. Simmons Hall, MIT, Cambridge
•1999-2007. Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, Missouri
•1999-2006. Arts Building West & Visual Arts Building (2009-16), University of Iowa, Iowa City
•2002-4. Nail Collector’s house, Essex, New York
•2003-9. Linked Hybrid towers, Beijing
•2003-11. Sifang art museum, Nanjing
•2005-9. Herning Museum of Contemporary Art, Herning
•2005-10. Cité du surf et de l’ocean, Biarritz
•2006-9. Horizontal skyscraper, Shenzhen
•2007-11. Sliced Porosity block, Chengdu
•2007-17. Lewis Center for the Arts, Princeton
•2008-10. Daeyang Gallery and house, Seoul
•2009-14. Reid Building, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow
•2010-9. Hunter’s Point library, Queens
•2011-8. Institute for Contemporary Art, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond
•2011-21. Kinder Building, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
•2012-7. Maggie’s Centre Barts, London
•2012-9. The Reach, Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, D.C.
•2016-22. Rubenstein Commons, Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton
•2006-24. Meander housing, Helsinki
•2020-4. L-House, Hudson
•2019- . Concert hall, Ostrava
•2021- . Student performing arts center, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
•2006- . Kaplankaya residential development, Akbük