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Steven Holl's vibrant Chapel of St. Ignatius is the 2022 AIA Twenty-Five Year Award winner

By Josh Niland|

Tuesday, Jun 28, 2022

Image © Paul Warchol Photography

A seminal religious commission from one of Washington State’s native sons, the Steven Holl-envisioned Chapel of St. Ignatius in Seattle, has been awarded the AIA Twenty-five Year Award in recognition of its design excellence and continued presence on the visual landscape of the Emerald City.

Designed around the Spanish Jesuit’s teachings and the central metaphor of “light as the divine spirit,” Holl’s somewhat diminutive 6,100-square-foot chapel was received as a “convincing evidence of his sense of detail, thoughtfulness about space and light, uses of materials to affect mood, sensitivity to the functions of a building, and a powerful respect for spiritual discovery” shortly after its completion in 1997. It is the only religious project completed by the architect to date.

Image © Paul Warchol Photography

Holl won the commission for the project after delivering a lecture on phenomenology and architecture at Seattle University in 1994. It was designed in collaboration with students from the university, enhanced by an adjacent processional area and "thinking field" reflecting pool, and defined by a “seven bottles of light within a stone box” concept that was delivered through a tilt-up construction method. Today it stands as the primary place of worship for the school’s 7,400-strong undergraduate population.

Image © Paul Warchol Photography

Per the AIA’s inscription: “Within, light is sculpted through several volumes that protrude from the chapel roof, each of which aims to harness different qualities of light for one united ceremony. Its site formed a new quadrangle for the university’s campus, with green space to the north, west, and, in the future, east. Its rectangular plan was carefully tailored to define the campus space as well as the processional and gathering space within.”

Image © Paul Warchol Photography

Recent past recipients of the AIA Twenty-Five Year Award have included Eric Owen Moss’ Conjunctive Points – The New City, Venturi, Scott Brown’s original Sainsbury Wing redesign for the National Gallery, and SOM’s Broadgate Exchange House from 1990. (No award was given in the 2018 cycle.) 

Image © Paul Warchol Photography

Holl's design will join former AIA Gold Medalist E. Fey Jones' Thorncrown Chapel in Arkansas, the Air Force Academy Chapel in Colorado, and Eero Saarinen's Christ Lutheran Church in Minnesota as the only religious projects to be honored in the award's now 53-year history.

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    The_Crow ·  Jun 29, 22 12:16 AM

    Well deserved.

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    archanonymous ·  Jun 30, 22 4:34 PM

    A lovely building that has held up conceptually and physically very well.

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Steven Holl's vibrant Chapel of St. Ignatius is the 2022 AIA Twenty-Five Year Award winner

By Josh Niland|

Tuesday, Jun 28, 2022

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Image © Paul Warchol Photography

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The American Institute of Architects
The American Institute of Architects
Seattle University
Seattle University

A seminal religious commission from one of Washington State’s native sons, the Steven Holl-envisioned Chapel of St. Ignatius in Seattle, has been awarded the AIA Twenty-five Year Award in recognition of its design excellence and continued presence on the visual landscape of the Emerald City.

Designed around the Spanish Jesuit’s teachings and the central metaphor of “light as the divine spirit,” Holl’s somewhat diminutive 6,100-square-foot chapel was received as a “convincing evidence of his sense of detail, thoughtfulness about space and light, uses of materials to affect mood, sensitivity to the functions of a building, and a powerful respect for spiritual discovery” shortly after its completion in 1997. It is the only religious project completed by the architect to date.

Image © Paul Warchol Photography

Holl won the commission for the project after delivering a lecture on phenomenology and architecture at Seattle University in 1994. It was designed in collaboration with students from the university, enhanced by an adjacent processional area and "thinking field" reflecting pool, and defined by a “seven bottles of light within a stone box” concept that was delivered through a tilt-up construction method. Today it stands as the primary place of worship for the school’s 7,400-strong undergraduate population.

Image © Paul Warchol Photography

Per the AIA’s inscription: “Within, light is sculpted through several volumes that protrude from the chapel roof, each of which aims to harness different qualities of light for one united ceremony. Its site formed a new quadrangle for the university’s campus, with green space to the north, west, and, in the future, east. Its rectangular plan was carefully tailored to define the campus space as well as the processional and gathering space within.”

Image © Paul Warchol Photography

Recent past recipients of the AIA Twenty-Five Year Award have included Eric Owen Moss’ Conjunctive Points – The New City, Venturi, Scott Brown’s original Sainsbury Wing redesign for the National Gallery, and SOM’s Broadgate Exchange House from 1990. (No award was given in the 2018 cycle.) 

Image © Paul Warchol Photography

Holl's design will join former AIA Gold Medalist E. Fey Jones' Thorncrown Chapel in Arkansas, the Air Force Academy Chapel in Colorado, and Eero Saarinen's Christ Lutheran Church in Minnesota as the only religious projects to be honored in the award's now 53-year history.

RELATED NEWS Burton Barr Phoenix Central Library wins AIA Twenty-five Year Award
RELATED NEWS 2019 AIA Twenty-Five Year Award bestowed to Sainsbury Wing by Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates
RELATED NEWS I.M. Pei's Grand Louvre wins 2017 AIA Twenty-Five Year Award

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    The_Crow ·  Jun 29, 22 12:16 AM

    Well deserved.

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    archanonymous ·  Jun 30, 22 4:34 PM

    A lovely building that has held up conceptually and physically very well.

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