John Shannon Hendrix
John Shannon Hendrix (born 1959) is an architectural historian and philosopher who has written and lectured extensively on the subjects of architecture, art, philosophy, aesthetics, psychoanalysis, science, culture and history. Much of his work focuses on connections among those topics, such as interactions of vision, perception, and sensation with the arts and architecture, the relationships between psychoanalysis and architecture, physical sciences and architecture, and philosophy and architecture. His career focuses on research and writing about "mostly European precedents in architecture and philosophy, for the purpose of suggesting alternatives to the practice of architecture and philosophy at the beginning of the twenty-first century." He has taught at Roger Williams University since 1999.
John Shannon Hendrix
- Name
- John Shannon Hendrix
- Born
- 27 April 1959
- Education
- B.F.A.
- Nationality
- United States
- Occupation
- writer · architect · philosopher · university teacher · architectural historian · art historian
- Fields
- architecture
- Languages
- English
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John Shannon Hendrix (born 1959) is an architectural historian and philosopher who has written and lectured extensively on the subjects of architecture, art, philosophy, aesthetics, psychoanalysis, science, culture and history. Much of his work focuses on connections among those topics, such as interactions of vision, perception, and sensation with the arts and architecture, the relationships between psychoanalysis and architecture, physical sciences and architecture, and philosophy and architecture. His career focuses on research and writing about "mostly European precedents in architecture and philosophy, for the purpose of suggesting alternatives to the practice of architecture and philosophy at the beginning of the twenty-first century." He has taught at Roger Williams University since 1999.
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He was Professor of Architectural History at the University of Lincoln, Lincoln, England from 2007 through 2015, Lecturer, History of Art and Visual Culture at the Rhode Island School of Design from 2004 through 2010, and has been lecturer at John Cabot University in Rome, the University of Connecticut, Rhode Island College, and the University of Massachusetts Lowell. He earned his B.F.A. in painting at the Art Institute of Chicago, M.A. at the Rhode Island School of Design, M.Arch. At the University of Illinois at Chicago, and a Ph.D. in architecture at Cornell University.
John Shannon Hendrix studied at School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Rhode Island School of Design and University of Illinois at Chicago. The recorded working language is English. The field of work recorded is architecture. Employment is recorded with Roger Williams University, University of Connecticut and Rhode Island School of Design.
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• Name — John Shannon Hendrix • Born — 27 April 1959 • Alma Mater — Art Institute of Chicago Rhode Island School of Design University of Illinois at Chicago Cornell University • Employer — Roger Williams University • Title — Adjunct Professor of Art and Architectural History at Roger Williams University • Education — B.F.A. M.A. M.Arch. Ph.D. • Website — http: www.johnshannonhendrix.com
Research and Theory
Hendrix's research and theoretical focus is directed toward developing modern alternatives to conventional practice of architecture and philosophy. Proposing approaches to contemporary practice of art and architecture, his teachings and writings relate interdisciplinary disciplines including aesthetics, cosmology, philosophy, and psychoanalysis. Connecting concepts of justice with the symbolic nature of architecture, Hendrix has analyzed how medieval cathedrals' use of light provide symbolism of justice. Developing new directions in urban planning based on psychoanalytic theory, Hendrix is a member of an international research group, based at Oxford Brookes University, designated "Architecture on the Couch: Psychoanalysis and the Environment." He is a member of the Institute for Psychoanalytic Studies in Architecture, the Foro di Studi Avanzati, and the International Society for Neoplatonic Studies.
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- 1.Jacobs, Fredrika H. Review: Renaissance Theories of Vision. College Art Association Reviews. August 16, 2012.
- 2.Hendrix, John Shannon. The Territories of Identity: Architecture in the Age of Evolving Globalization. Routledge. 2002. 978-0-415622-88-2.
- 3.Cuff, Andrew Jacob. Book Review: Bishop Robert Grosseteste and Lincoln Cathedral: Tracing Relationships between Medieval Concepts of Order and Built Form (Temple, Hendrix, & Frost, eds.). Hortulus: The Online Graduate Journal of Medieval Studies. April 17, 2016.
- 4.Hendrix, John Shannon. Neoplatonic Philosophy and Roman Baroque Architecture. The European Studies Journal. 16. 1. 31–60. 1999.
- 5.Hendrix, John Shannon. Theorizing a Contradiction between Form and Function in Architecture. South African Journal of Art History. 27. 1. 9–28. 2012.
- 6.Prof John Hendrix - Professor of Architectural History. University of Lincoln.
- 7.John Hendrix Organizes Conference in UK. Rhode Island School of Design. February 17, 2010.
- 8.John Shannon Hendrix. John Shannon Hendrix - Art Architecture Theory.
- 9.Hendrix, John. Architecture and Justice: Judicial Meanings in the Public Realm. Routledge. March 21, 2013. 978-1-409-43173-2.
- 10.Oxford Brookes University. Architecture on the Couch: Psychoanalysis and the Environment.
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