Steven Holl's Sketches

Kiasma, Museum of Contemporary Art (Helsinki, Finland)

"In each project, we seek new ways to integrate an organizing idea with the programmatic and functional essence of a building. Rather than a "style" carried to different sites and climates, or pursued regardless of different programs, we seek the unique character of a program and site, local and global, as the starting point for an architectural idea."

"...as the perspective changes, as you move through space, you have a parallax of spatial overlap.This for me is central and in a certain way it's a small manifesto because you cannot photograph this phenomenon.You need to experience it by walking through the spaces in a building. For example, in my Helsinki Museum, there are twenty-five galleries in a sequence that are experienced like a musical cadence which takes half an hour to walk through the whole sequence. So, there is no way you can photograph that. "