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JOHN QUENTIN HEJDUK (1929-2000)
Hejduk is one of the New York Five (along with architects Peter Eisenman, Richard Meier, Michael Graves, and Charles Gwathmey) whose early works are described in the book Five Architects. He was also part of the Texas Rangers, a group of innovative architects and professors at the Universty of Texas School of Architecture, Austin, whose other participants include Colin Rowe and Werner Seligmann.
Hejduk was Professor of Architecture at Cooper Union from 1964 to 2000 and Dean the last 25 of those years. His arrival along with other influential professors (including Raimund Abraham, Ricardo Scofidio, Peter Eisenman, Charles Gwathmey, Diana Agrest, Diane Lewis, Elizabeth Diller, David Shapiro, and others) transformed the practice and critical thought of architecture at the school.
Hejduk's early work and curriculum grew from a set of exercises exploring cubes, grids, and frames for which he was awarded a Graham Foundation grant in 1967. Eventually, his modernist space-making exercises, heavily influenced by Frank Lloyd Wright and Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe, moved towards free-hand "figure/objects" influenced by mythology and spirituality. A large portion of his work is archived at the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal, Quebec. Bio adapted from Wikipedia.
1958 - The Northern NY House. Unsure if built. Project for a house in northern NY state.
1959 - The Friedlander House (Economy Studio). Designed for Waverly NY. Unbuilt. Commissioned 1954.
1960 - The Economy House 1, designed for Locust Valley NY in 1960. Built. do you know where it is? Commissioned 1954.
1963 - The Economy
House 2, location unknown. Unbuilt.
1963 - The Apartment House. Unbuilt. An unexecuted
project for an apartment house.
1963 - The Ithaca House. Unbuilt. Commissioned 1954.
1963 - The Piano Houses. Unbuilt. 4 houses.
1963 - The Row Houses. Unbuilt. Commissioned 1954.
1967 - The Diamond Houses, A, B, and C. Unbuilt. A & B shown above. In 1962 Hejduk started a six-year investigation on the architectural implications of the “diamond configuration”: a forty-five-degree rotation of bounding elements relative to an orthogonal system. The exhibition of drawings and models held at The Architectural League in New York in 1967 showed the three projects.
1968 - The Bernstein House, Mamarondek, NY. Unbuilt. MOMA
model.
1971 - The Element House. Unbuilt.
1974 - The Good Neighbor House. Unbuilt.
1974 - The Wall House 1 and 3, unbuilt. Commissioned
1968.
1974 - The Ambiguity House. Unbuilt.
1974 - The Extension House. Unbuilt.
1974 - The Gunn House. Unbuilt.
1974 - The 1/4 House. House variations A, B, C, and D, all
unbuilt. Plan C shown above.
1974 - The Red-Yellow Houses. Four unbuilt houses A-D. Houses A
& B shown above.
1974 - The Space Shuttle House. Unbuilt.
1976 - The Grandfather Wall House. Unbuilt.
Around 1977 - The Campagna House. Unbuilt.
1979 - The Circular House. Unbuilt.
1979 - The House for the Inhabitant who Refused to Participate Project,
Venice Italy. Unbuilt.
1979 - The Todre House. Unbuilt.
1979 - The L. A. House/The City of the Angels House/The Day-Night House,
Los Angeles CA. Unbuilt.
1979 - The North East South West House. Unbuilt.
1982 - The House of the Painter. Built as full scale model for the "Idea, Process, Result" Exhibition in Berlin in 1984. Cited in NY Times 12/20/2002. Unsure of status.
1982 - Studio for a Musician. Built as full scale model for the "Idea, Process, Result" Exhibition in Berlin in 1984. Unsure of status.
1983 - House For a Musician. Status unknown.
1983 - The 0 30 45 60 90 House. Unbuilt Commissioned 1979.
1987 - The Gate House, block bounded by Hedemannstrasse, Friedrichstrasse, Franz Kluhs Street, and William Street, Berlin, Germany. The Gate House was a refurbishment project designed by John Hejduk for the 1987 IBA.
1988 - House for Two Brothers, part of the Tegel Masterplan, Berlin
Germany. John Hejduk designed the Tegel Housing as part of the 1987
IBA. Each building in the complex opens out to the harbour and lake. Being a
more affluent area of Berlin, the buildings have been maintained more than
some of the other projects from the IBA.
1988 - The Kreuzberg Tower and Wings, Charlottenstrasse 97-A, 10969 Berlin Germany. 14-story tower with two separate 5 story wings.
1988 - Kreuzberg Tower and Wings, Berlin,
Germany.
1988 - Tegel Housing, Berlin, Germany.
1988 - aka House of the
Quadruplets, aka House for two Brothers. Berlin, Tegel, Germany.
1991 - The Gate House, Berlin, Germany. Designed for the IBA 87.
1998 - La Máscara de la Medusa, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2016 - aka House of the Suicide and House of the Mother of the Suicide, Prague, Czech Republic. Monument to Jan Palach.
Sources include: Catherine Westergaard Cramer.