Take a peak inside Steven Holl's unique creative mind at the Tchoban Foundation's upcoming exhibition

Next month in Berlin, a must-see exhibition featuring the drawings and watercolors of architect Steven Holl will be held at the Tchoban Foundation's Museum for Architectural Drawing. 

Steven Holl: Drawing as Thought, which begins February 7th, centers Holl’s 1988 Amerika-Gedenkbibliothek library as a focal point around which curator Kristin Feireiss chose from nearly 50,000 examples of his great oeuvre. Drawings for three of Holl’s unrealized projects—including the Palazzo del Cinema in Venice (1990) and Porta Vittoria in Milan (1986)—will provide another special incentive for visitors, along with a sketch for the new Ostrava Concert Hall in that his firm previewed in 2023.

The museum’s founder, Sergei Tchoban, cites Holl's work as a very significant example of what he calls "thinking with the hand" and offers: "The overlap with artificial intelligence and the digital world is natural for now, but the thinking process still begins with the human body and from my point of view the most unexpected ideas can be created only as a combination of reactions of the human body by architects. That is why the Foundation is looking for architects [like Holl] who highlight that hand-drawing is an important tool to create, communicate, and express their ideas."

You can also catch Holl’s conversation with Tchoban and Diana Carter live from the Aedes Architecture Forum next door on February 6th at 7:00 PM. The last day to see Steven Holl: Drawing as Thought is May 4th, 2025.