John Hejduk

John Quentin Hejduk ( born July 19, 1929 in New York; † July 3, 2000 in Riverdale, Bronx ) was an American architect and member of the group of architects New York Five.

Life and work

Hejduk studied at the Cooper Union School of Art and Architecture and the University of Cincinnati architecture. At the Harvard Graduate School of Design, he completed a Masters in Architecture in 1953. After this employee was on I. M. Pei. In 1965 he settled as an independent architect in New York. In the following years Hejduk has published several works of architectural theory. He was a member of the New York Five architect groups and Texas Rangers. From 1972 to 2000 he was Dean of the Cooper Union School of Art and Architecture in the Faculty of Architecture. During this period he created architecture discussion circles and coined with architects such as Raimund Abraham, Ricardo Scofidio, Peter Eisenman, Charles Gwathmey, Diana Agrest, Diane Lewis, Elizabeth Diller, David Shapiro architectural discourse in the U.S. significantly. The main focus of his work was the architectural discourse.

Buildings

Only a handful of structures conceived it was realized. As part of the International Building Exhibition 1984 in Berlin, he was able to realize two other buildings in the district of Steglitz- Zehlendorf in Berlin- Tegel next to the Kreuzberg Tower. His design for a large-scale structural design of the Berlin Wall in 1982 along with the title " Berlin Masque " was not realized.

Publications

• Education Of An Architect A Point Of View ( 1988.1999 )
• Pewter Wings Golden Horn 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 )
• Mask of Medusa (1985 )
• Fabrications (1974 )
• Three Projects ( 1969)