Bridge of Houses Project, New York, NY (Perspective)

Steven Holl

1981

An etching in which Steven Holl proposes a ‘bridge of houses’: a series of domestic volumes strung along an elevated spine on stilts, rethinking how housing might span and repair the city.

At first glance a spare, schematic perspective—tiny pitched-roof forms perched on a rhythmic run of slender columns, with delicate cross-hatching that makes the composition feel both architectural and lyrical.

The image distills Holl’s early explorations of architecture as urban connector, proposing infrastructural housing that blurred building, bridge, and urban planning and helped expand how architects imagined civic dwelling.

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Art Terms

Etching Intaglio Architectural drawing Architecture Perspective Built environment Urbanization

Exhibitions

Built in USA: Post-War Architecture

1953

Architecture in the New York Area

1952

Architecture in Government Housing

1936

Built in the U.S.A., 1932–44

1944