Architectural Phenomena in Steven Holl

The intention of this paper is to make a thematic explication of the structure of Steven Holl's methodology in creating his works by means of analyzing his words. The analysis is described in four chapters as follows: in chapter 2, the structure of Holl's words which means his concept "phenomenal architecture" is explicated with a dichotomous schema. In chapter 3, as suggested by the structure of a schema which explicates the phenomenological reduction, Holl's "physics" and "metaphysics" are explicated schematically, and it is shown that the shift to "metaphysics" from "physics" in Holl is nothing but the phenomenological transcendental shift. In chapter 4, it is clarified that Holl's "idea" is discovered in the shifting process of the phenomenological reduction called "metaphysics", and it is also acknowledged that the "idea" constitutes a counterpart of the "design" which is located in the transcendent-ontical phase. In chapter 5, as based on the considerations in the previous chapters, and also as suggested by Tomoya Masuda's ontological schema, as well as Masuda's words that describe the schema, the whole structure of Holl's methodology is explicated with two schemata.