Steven Holl: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art,
Bloch Building

Generally acknowledged as one of the most artistically-minded architects practicing today, Steven Holl has just completed a museum considered the apex of his 33-year career -- the Bloch Building for the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City. Here Holl designed a linear series of subterranean galleries from which luminous, sculptural shards of channel glass, which he calls "lenses," emerge from the earth along the eastern edge of the original, 1933 Beaux-Arts museum. In this enlightening visit, Holl takes us through the galleries where contemporary art is displayed beneath curving vaults admitting daylight, a tour effectively demonstrating the convergence of space, time, and architecture.

P R O D U C E R : Edgar B. Howard
D I R E C T O R : Tom Piper
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