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John Hejduk’s Critical and Poetic Architecture  \nArchitectural Theories and Practices  \n“The Architect is responsible to create the spirit ofa thought. And to translate through whatever medium is available a sense of place, whether it be in a text, in a drawing, in a model, in a building, in a photograph, in a film. The Architect concerns himself/herself, with the mysteries of space and of form, and is also obligated to invent new programs. It is essential that the Architect create works that are thought provoking, sense provoking, and ultimately life provoking. Or more precisely, life giving, to what appears to be at first inanimate materials. The Architect enters into the social contract in the deepest sense.”  \nJohn Hejduk, Berlin Night.1  \nOpening  \nJohn Hejduk’s work as an architect, author and teacher is without doubt among the most significant of our time. Modifying from within the terms of a utopic, often mute and senseless modernist architecture, without engaging in futile nostalgic evasions, his works have had a profound influence on architects and educators, particularly on those who, through study or practice, have recognized the crisis of meaning that has afflicted our profession since the nineteenth century.  \nHejduk was educated in a totally modern context, belonging in his own words, to a “third generation of modern architects”2 after the heroic figures of Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe, and Frank Lloyd Wright. The assumption of an “objective” space of precise architectural representation and axonometric projection was a given in the first stages of his career. Following upon the discoveries of Cezanne, Juan Gris, Mondrian and other modern artists, Hejduk soon came to realize the limitations of conceptual space: he valorized the enigmatic depths that became manifest by simply shifting a square plan forty-five degrees, or employing frontal axonometric projections. While always believing, with Alain Robbe-Grillet (writing about Franz Kafka), that  \nJohn Hejduk’s Critical and Poetic Architecture  \nFig. 13.1 John Hejduk, Diamond House (1963-67), plan.  \nFig. 13.2 Wall House (1968-1974), axonometric.  \na “hallucinatory effect derives from [the] extraordinary clarity [of objects, gestures, words] and not from mystery or mist [for] nothing is more fantastic ultimately than precision,”3 he came to understand the limitations of a progressive (instrumental) and optimistic modernity. In his more mature work he acknowledged the central importance of story-telling and poetic language in architectural design.  \nJohn Hejduk’s work is both critical and poetic, two attributes that can be easily coupled in a sentence, but whose synthesis – a requisite of authentic artistic creation in our times – is immensely difficult to implement. Architects of the late twentieth and  \nArchitectural Theories and Practices  \nearly twenty-first centuries have often attained recognition by adopting one or the other banner: a pseudo-poetic formal language as a sign of “style,” one that may be easily consumed, or a critical stance extrapolated from other disciplines like philosophy, political theory or gender studies, which the public might identify as a correct political position. Hejduk’s work has escaped such deceptive reductions. His architecture is indeed profoundly critical, but the critique is first and foremost a gift ofthe imagination, luminous and visceral.  \nIndeed, John Hejduk’s work constitutes a radical criticism of representational clichés, always exploring the expressive potential of architecture beyond the restrictions of ill-conceived categories: drawing, building, book-making, poetry, model-making, photography, are all adequate media for architecture in its widest sense, as a significant human ordering of the world both experienced emotionally and understood cognitively. Yet, his theoretical work, always a personal making, is a paradigm oftéchne-poíesis, the Greek terms used to define the nature of the work of art as a revel","cbCaiq7RkXRhzc3S","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiq7RkXRhzc3S","pdf",788995,27,"English","# Opening\n# Architectural Theories and Practices\n## The architect’s responsibility and poetic language\n## Critique, story-telling, and the limits of representation\n## Translation across media and architectural production","[{\"question\":\"What does the text say about the architect’s responsibility?\",\"answer\":\"The architect is responsible for creating the spirit of a thought and translating a sense of place through many media. 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It stresses that poetic language and storytelling are central to architectural design, and that translating between media is a poetic operation requiring hermeneutic imagination.\"}]","John Hejduk’s Critical and Poetic Architecture - Architectural Theories and Practices | PDF",42]