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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
Water
Ears
Carve
Become
Extraordinary
Drops
Mind
Capacity
Interior
Darkness
Interiors
Sculpted
Becomes
Ruin
Entranced
Anyone
Volume
Cavity
Space
Void
Attest
Sound
Ruins
Traced

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