![]() ![]() “We’re in one of the walkways between the big tower and one of the smaller towers.” It’s just 70 cm long, and about 50 cm wide. ![]() (Less than a handful.) However, he was prolific in other ways.ġ8. You may be surprised that for someone of his stature, Hejduk built relatively few buildings. It’s not just building per se, it’s building worlds.”ġ7. I’ll try and remember this quote by Hejduk: “I cannot do a building without building a new repertoire of characters, of stories, of language, and it’s all parallel. John Hejduk fonds, collection Centre Canadien d’Architecture, Canadian Center for Architecture, Montréal.ġ5. John Hejduk, Berlin Tower: Sectional Details, 1985-1986. The descriptions: quotidian and metaphysical at the same time. I’ll open it to pages that describe a theatrical cast of characters, who they are, what defines their individuality, how they belong to this … community, let’s call it. I’ll pick up a Hejduk book called Victims,from 1986. Little lives floating between second and third dimensions. Scratchy ink drawings showing menageries of objects. I’ll point at some black-and-white printouts pinned on my white walls. Hejduk the dean of the Cooper Union, New York, for decades. Soon after, Hejduk went his own inimitable way, which, it seems, was always his preferred way.ġ3. Between these mortal parentheses, Hejduk was one of the “New York Five,” a loose band of neo-modern architects who rose to prominence in the late 1960s and early ’70s, famous for reintroducing formalism to discourse and building a number of rich people’s houses in rich parts of America. I’ll launch, quite abruptly, into a customized Wikipedia biography. You own every seminal Semiotext(e) paperback.Ĩ. It’s obvious you had an expensive education. “Hejduk was the architect.” You will look puzzled. John Hejduk fonds, collection Canadian Center for Architecture, Montréalħ. ![]() John Hejduk, Berlin Tower: Elevations and Plans, 1985-1986. “The elevator brought you up one of the five towers,” I’ll explain, “and now, we’re standing in the central tower.” You’ll look around the square white room, roughly six by six meters. It’s an Asian tradition I take with me wherever I go.Ħ. After I’ve greeted you with a Continental kiss on both cheeks (one kiss feels inadequate three, inconvenient), I’ll invite you inside my temporary home. The elevator doors will open and you’ll see me waiting for you.Ĥ. Just so you know, there is no other apartment on that floor. Look out for the single piece of graffiti in the elevator (always the word “SEX,” in capitals).ģ. Photo by Helene Binet when the tower was completed in 1988ġ. ![]()
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