Steven Holl Awarded American Institute of Architects's Gold Medal

As of late, it seems that all the top architecture awards have not only been based in Europe, but have also only been received by Europeans. Fortunately, particularly for those xenophobes in the audience, this week marks an All-American return to the good ol’ US of A. The American Institute of Architects have announced this year’s Gold Medal has been awarded to Steven Holl. Citing projects like his Nelson Atkins Museum in Kansas City, Simmons Hall at MIT, and the Knut Hamsun Center in Norway, the Holl-nominator Toshiko Mori called the architect “a public intellectual” and his work “poetic.”