John HEJDUK

(1929 – 2000)

Czech-American architect, artist and educator who is renowned for his deep interest in fundamental issues of form, organisation, representation and interrelationship | 1929 born |  studies at “Cooper Union School of Art and Architecture” in NYC and at the “University of Cincinnati” | 1953 master´s degree in architecture at “Harvard Graduate School of Design”; works for I. M. PEI | 1965 starts his own office in New York City | 1972 co-founder of the “New York Five” with Michael GRAVES, Charles GWATHMEY, Peter EISENMAN and Richard MEIER | 1972-2000 dean of the Cooper Union School of Art and Architecture; during this time, he creates architectural discussion circles and significantly shaped architectural discourse in the US with other architects | 2000 died