John Hejduk 1929.07.29 - 2000.07.03
Peter Eisenman 1932.08.11 -
Michael Graves 1934.07.09 -
Richard Meier 1934.10.12 -
Charles Gwathmey 1938.06.19 - 2009.08.03
John Hejduk was born in New York City in 1929. He was a Fulbright scholar in Italy in 1953. He is an architect and Chairman of the Department of Architecture at The Cooper Union in New York City. He has taught at the University of Texas, Cornell and Yale. He has exhibited his work at the Architectural League of New York, and at the Foundation LeCorbusier, paris. His "Diamond" projects have been published by The Cooper Union in 1968. He was the recipient of a Graham Foundation Fellowship and The National Endowmnet of the Arts Award 1972.
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1540s 1550s
latter-day Michelangelo
1920s 1930s
formal properties of Le Corbusier
1922
Frank Lloyd Wright's invention of the diagonal in plan
1930s
Guiseppe Terragni's handful of marvelous buildings exploiting the ambiguity of wall and column
1937
Gropius House, Lincoln, Massachusetts
1939
Breuer House, Lincoln, Massachusetts
1945-
post-World War II mood of disenchantment, restlessness, and resentment
late-1940s
modern architecture becomes established and institutionalized, losing something of its original meaning; becoming the acceptable decoration of a certainly non-Utopian present
1959-
Louis Kahn's free wheeling use of the diagonal in plan
1963
Colin Rowe and Robert Slutsky article "Transparency: Literal and Phenomenal," published in Perspecta 8
1967
John Hejduk and Robert Slutsky stage a joint architecture and painting show on the theme of the Diamond and thre Square at the Architectural League in the Fall
1969.05.09-10
meeting of the CASE group (Conference of Architects for the Study of the Environment) held at the Museum of Modern Art.
1969
comparative critique made at the meeting by Kenneth Frampton
1972
Five Architects
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