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Anyone who has become entranced by the sound of water drops in the darkness of a ruin can attest to the extraordinary capacity of the ear to carve a volume into the void of darkness. The space traced by the ear becomes a cavity sculpted in the interior of the mind.

Steven Holl

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Steven Holl
Age: 76
Born: 1947
Born: December 9
Architect
University Teacher
Bremerton
Washington
Steven Myron Holl
Becomes
Ruin
Entranced
Anyone
Volume
Cavity
Space
Void
Attest
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Ruins
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Water
Ears
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Mind
Capacity
Interior
Darkness
Interiors
Sculpted

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