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From: Stephen Lauf
To: design-l@lists.psu.edu
Subject: Re: Hejduk
Date: 2004.02.16 11:49
Boullee, Hejduk and Rossi make a very interesting combination. I never seriously thought of them in tandem before, but just now when I looked up at my bookshelf, the Boullee book is right next to the seven Hejduk books, which are right next to the five Rossi books--who knew? I've seen two Rossi projects and one Hejduk project, all in Berlin. All three architects are now dead.
death of Rossi
death of Hejduk
[just looked this up:] Boullee was born 12 February 1728 and died 6 February 1799. [This is now easy for me to remember because my Aunt Maria was born 12 February and my Grandmother Franziska was born 6 February.] Boullee never married.
Piranesi had some influence on Boullee, and Boullee had some influence on Gilly and subsequently Schinkel. Of the architects mentioned so far, all were prolific designers, but only Rossi and Schinkel are prolific in the built sense.
Hejduk's Bye House, now built in Holland at 1.2 the scale of the original design, has long been one of my favorite designs--I constructed a computer model of the project 1990 or 1991. I hadn't heard that it turned out to be 'uninhabitable'.
Last week and this week are being spent (yet again) re-doing Quondam, this time a kind of schizophrenia + architectures five years later, and I plan to continue till 1 January 2005 (ending with maybe/at least 2005 pages this time). Nothing new is online yet, but it is interesting how our discussion here compliments what I'm doing on my own.
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