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

Steven Holl

1981

A pencil-and-ink architectural rendering proposing a “Bridge of Houses” — a raised residential thoroughfare that links blocks and imagines a new urban typology for New York.

You’re struck by the theatrical, high-contrast view: solid black building silhouettes frame a luminous vanishing point bisected by an elevated bridge, while a softly textured sky and small plan diagrams along the bottom ground the image in measured design thinking.

The work illustrates Steven Holl’s interest in light, sequence, and urban repair, advancing the idea of architecture as connective infrastructure and contributing to late-20th-century discussions about density, infill, and new urban typologies.

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Art Terms

Architectural drawing Architecture Pencil Ink Plan drawing Perspective Built environment Urbanization

Exhibitions

Architecture in the New York Area

1952

Built in USA: Post-War Architecture

1953

Built in the U.S.A., 1932–44

1944

Architecture in Government Housing

1936