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Steven Holl: From the Hinged Space to the Chromatic Space

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Architectural Draughtsmanship (EGA 2016)

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By 1983, Steven Holl had begun experimenting with so-called ‘hinged space’ in a series of apartments in Manhattan based on a planar and linear vision of architecture. Therefore, a parallel could be drawn with De Stijl group and their neoplastic paintings. Projects like housing in Fukuoka and Storefront gallery are evolved examples of the same ideas. The creation of ‘chromatic space’—another term coined by Holl—is analyzed through D.E. Shaw and Sarphatistraat offices renovation, where the phenomena of spatial colour reflection are explored, thereby establishing new points in common with the chromatic architecture of the Dutch group.

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Notes

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    See Van Doesburg, Arithmetic composition, 1929–30.

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    The italics correspond to the original text (Mondrian 1983).

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    The quote is part of the manifesto ‘Towards a Plastic Architecture’, published in De Stijl magazine in 1924.

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  1. Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Barcelona, Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña, Barcelona, Spain

    M. Teresa Díez Blanco

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    Enrique Castaño Perea

  2. Departamento de Arquitectura, Universidad de Alcalá, Alcalá de Henares, Spain

    Ernesto Echeverria Valiente

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Díez Blanco, M.T. (2018). Steven Holl: From the Hinged Space to the Chromatic Space. In: Castaño Perea, E., Echeverria Valiente, E. (eds) Architectural Draughtsmanship. EGA 2016. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58856-8_76

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