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Steven Holl Architects to Design Princeton Buildings

Architects will also be named for two more buildings included in the project.

Mairi Beautyman -- Interior Design, 1/22/2008 12:00:00 AM

Steven Holl Architects will head up a major arts expansion at Princeton University. The Princeton, N.J.-based member of the exclusive Ivy League is planning a new arts and transit neighborhood, estimated at 135,000-square-feet.

Steven Holl Architects will design the first academic buildings for the project, including buildings for the Program in Theater and Dance, components of the music department, the Lewis Center for the Arts, and the Society of Fellows in the Creative and Performing Arts. Current plans, subject to change, call for a black box theater, a large dance studio, an orchestral rehearsal studio, several smaller acting studios, dance studios, music practice rooms, classrooms, support spaces, a cafe, and offices.

"We were looking for an architect who thrives on a complex program, and not only having a plan support that program but also having the buildings connect the programs together--almost integrate the programs spatially," says Mark Burstein, executive vice president of Princeton University.

Architects will also be named for a experimental media studio and a satellite for the Princeton University Art Museum.

Among Steven Holl Architects' completed projects are the Simmons Hall at MIT (Cambridge), the School of Architecture & Landscape Architecture at the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis), and the Cranbrook Institute of Science, (Bloomfield Hills).