Being John Hejduk

Exercises in architectural figuration: House 10

Abstract

Beginning in the second half of the 1960s, John Hejduk started his career as a professor of architecture and then principal of the Cooper Union School of Art and Architecture in New York, of which he had been a student. His particular attention to the design and theorising of the single house will find here an educational application in the exercises assigned in the composition courses called: The Nine Square Grid Problem, The Cube Problem, The Juan Gris Problem and Analysis Problem; all experiments whose programmatic character, aimed at the construction and figuration of the architectural form, as illustrated in the book of Education of an Architect: A Point of View; publication in which are collected the graphic outcomes of the courses of the prestigious American school of architecture accompanied by the texts of the teachers who illustrate the didactic intent.