John Hejduk
John Quentin Hejduk (July 19, 1929 – July 3, 2000) was an American architect, artist and educator from New York City. Hejduk studied at the Cooper Union School of Art and Architecture, the University of Cincinnati, and the Harvard Graduate School of Design. He worked in several offices in New York including that of I. Pei and the office of A.M. He established his own practice in New York City in 1965.
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John Hejduk
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- Born
- 1929.
- Died
- 2000.
- Nationality
- United States.
- Occupation
- architect, pedagogue, sculptor, university teacher, graphic artist and photographer.
- Known for
- Kreuzberg Tower and Education of an Architect.
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John Quentin Hejduk (July 19, 1929 – July 3, 2000) was an American architect, artist and educator from New York City. Hejduk studied at the Cooper Union School of Art and Architecture, the University of Cincinnati, and the Harvard Graduate School of Design. He worked in several offices in New York including that of I. Pei and the office of A.M. He established his own practice in New York City in 1965.
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John Hejduk (1929–2000) was an American architect, graphic artist and pedagogue, among other activities. The architect was born in New York City.
John Hejduk studied at Cooper Union, Harvard Graduate School of Design and Harvard University, among others. The architect was active in Architecture and art of sculpture.
Works include Education of an Architect and Kreuzberg Tower. Languages used include English.
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Approach
Approach
His early work and curriculum grew from a set of exercises exploring cubes, grids, and frames, through an examination of square grids placed within diagonal containers set against an occasional curving wall, towards a series of experiments with flat planes and curved masses in various combinations and colors. He was awarded a grant from the Graham Foundation in 1967. Eventually, John Hejduk's "hard-line" modernist space-making exercises, heavily influenced by Frank Lloyd Wright and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, moved away from his interests in favor of free-hand "figure/objects" influenced by mythology and spirituality, clearly expressing the nature of his poetry. The architectural historian K. Michael Hays has described Hejduk's architecture as one of "Encounter", describing Hejduk's objects as seeming "impossibly, to be aware of us, to address us. And yet we see not the gratifying reflection of ourselves we had hoped for but another thing, looking back at us, watching us, placing us", articulating Hejduk's work from a post-modern Lacanian perspective as more "literary" than that of his peers.
Important buildings
Important buildings
House For a Musician (1983) House of the Suicide and House of the Mother of the Suicide (Prague, monument installed 2016) Kreuzberg Tower and Wings (Berlin, Germany, 1988) House of the Quadruplets / House for two Brothers (Berlin, Tegel, 1988) Gate House (Berlin, 1991) for the IBA 87 La Máscara de la Medusa (Buenos Aires, 1998) Wall House II (Groningen, 2001)
The Rolling House
The Rolling House
In 2019, students of the Faculty of Architecture of the Czech Technical University in Prague led by Hana Seho built the object The Rolling House according to drawings by John Hejduk. The project was created in the studio during the Summer School of Building on the topic of minimal mobile building. The realization took place in October and November 2019. The building was unveiled on November 11, 2019, as a celebration of the 30th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution and as a gift to Alena Šrámková for her 90th birthday.
Conceptual works
Conceptual works
Diamond Houses (1962) Identity Card Man (Victim Series, 1986) Cemetery for the Ashes of Thought (1975) Berlin Masque (1981) Cathedral (1996) Chapel, Wedding of the Sun and Moon (1998)
Vernisáž výstavy "John Hejduk - Práce", Pražský hrad, Míčovna, 4. září 1991 - John Hejduk, Kim Shkapich
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Příprava výstavy "Helene Binet - Příbuzní", Praha, Galerie Jaroslava Fragnera, září 1991 – Helene Binet, John Hejduk
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Life and career
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Life and career
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1929
John Hejduk born at New York City.
2000
John Hejduk died at The Bronx.
As a professor
Hejduk was hired at the University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture by Dean Harwell Hamilton Harris. During his time at the School, he was a member of the so-called "Texas Rangers", a group of influential professors which also included Colin Rowe, Robert Slutzky, Werner Seligmann, and Herbert Hirsche. Following his time at UT Austin, Hejduk was a professor of architecture at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, School of Architecture from 1964 to 2000 and Dean of the School of Architecture from 1975 to 2000. His arrival, including the cooperation of many other influential professors (including Raimund Abraham, Ricardo Scofidio, Peter Eisenman, Charles Gwathmey, Diana Agrest, Diane Lewis, Elizabeth Diller, David Shapiro, and many others), transformed the practice and critical thought of architecture.
Legacy
Hejduk is associated with several schools, including the New York Five (with architects Peter Eisenman, Richard Meier, Michael Graves, and Charles Gwathmey) whose early works are described in Five Architects (1973), and the Texas Rangers, a group of innovative architects and professors at the University of Texas School of Architecture, Austin, whose other well-known participants include Colin Rowe and Werner Seligmann. Contemporary theorists, researchers, and academics publishing work and research by and about John Hejduk include K. Michael Hays, Mark Linder, R.E. Somol, Anthony Vidler, Renata Hejduk, and Catherine Ingraham A large portion of his work is archived at the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal, Canada.
Primary material
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- Gemeinsame Normdatei 1091600740, John Hejduk (1983 : Zürich).
General reference · Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
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- “John Hejduk”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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- Wikidata, structured authority record Q1270804: John Hejduk
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- 1.Great Buildings Collection. John Hejduk.
- 2.Muschamp, Herbert. John Hejduk, an Architect And Educator, Dies at 71. New York Times. 6 July 2000.
- 3.HARWELL HAMILTON HARRIS, FAIA (1903–1990). US Modernist.
- 4.Hays, K. Michael. Architecture's Desire. The MIT Press. 90. 2010. 978-0-262-51302-9.
- 5.Goldberger, Paul. Architecture View: A Little Book That Led Five Men to Fame. The New York Times. February 11, 1996.
- 6.Iovine, Julie V. Michael Graves. Chronicle Books. 9–10. 2000. 0-8118-3251-1.
- 7.Hays, K. Michael. Sanctuaries: The Last Works of John Hejduk. Whitney Museum. Harry N. Abrams. April 1, 2003. 978-0-87427-129-4.
- 8.Linder, Mark. Nothing Less than Literal: Architecture after Minimalism. The MIT Press. February 4, 2005. 978-0-262-12266-5.
- 9.Exhibition: Other Soundings: selected works by John Hejduk 1954–1997: a review (in Japanese and English). A+U: Architecture and Urbanism. 327. 3–13. December 1997.
- 10.Vidler, Anthony. The Architectural Uncanny: Essays in the Modern Unhomely. The MIT Press. May 8, 1992. 978-0-262-22044-6.
- 11.Renata Hejduk. The Religious Imagination in Modern and Contemporary Architecture: A Reader. Routledge. February 17, 2011. 978-0-415-78080-3.
- 12.Hays, K. Michael. Hejduk's Chronotope. Princeton Architectural Press. 129. 1996. 978-1-56898-078-2.
- 13.John Hejduk fonds. Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal.
- 14.Rottová, Kateřina. Studenti a pedagogové Fakulty architektury ČVUT v Praze dali Aleně Šrámkové k narozeninám dům na kolečkách. aktualne.cvut.cz. Czech Technical University in Prague. November 15, 2019.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 17
- Lines: No Fire Could Burn (1999)
- Education of an Architect a Point of View (1988, 1999)
- Pewter Wings Golden Horns Stone Veils: Wedding in a Dark Plum Room (1997)
- Adjusting Foundations (1995)
- Architectures in Love (1995)
- Security (1995)
- Berlin Night (1993)
- Soundings (1993)
- Aesop's Fables with Joseph Jacobs. Illustrations by John Hejduk. (1991)
- Práce (Practice) (1991)
- The Riga Project (1989)
- Vladivostok (1989)
- Bovisa (1987)
- Victims (1986)
- Mask of Medusa (1985)
- Fabrications (1974)
- Three Projects (1969)
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