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Steven Holl is one of the best-regarded American architects of his generation, well known for designs including the Kiasma Museum in Helsinki and Simmons Hall at M.I.T. He was also a member, with architecture-world heavyweights Peter Eisenman, Charles Gwa
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Steven Holl Architects
Steven Holl
2004
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