Urban hopes made in China by Steven Holl Embracing the reality of cities and the infrastructural economic and societal challenges that they face has inspired a distinctive genre of new work from Steven Holl Architects. Over the past decade the office has taken on work of increasing complexity and scale in China gathered together here for the first time. Oceanic Balthasar Holz Introduction Steven Holl Urban manifestos Histories Tianjin Museums (Tianjin China) Horizontal skyscraper (Vanke Center Shenzhen China) Sliced porosity block (Chengdu China) Linked hybrid (Beijing China) Tropical porosity plan (Dongguan China) Conclusion: irrationale Christoph a. Kumpusch