JOHN HEJDUK | Mask of Medusa : Works 1947-1983

1987 printing (first edition, second printing). Softcover with illustrated wraps. Hejduk's works from thirty-six productive years are here assembled for the first time in one massive volume. The cross-referenced time frames into which the book is divided evoke places where Hejduk's works were produced and events that inspired him. Mask of Medusa is both a kind of pedagogical text probing the nature and limits of architectural programs, and a gallery of designs and projects often bordering on the enigmatic. Hejduk's own voice is a guide through the maze, revealing his ideas about architecture's relationship to socio-cultural currents and unfolding new perspectives for the imagination. Among the sixty-five documented projects are his well-known Diamond and Texas Houses, the Bye House and Wall House I, and such previously unpublished works as the Piano House, the P.S. 47BX1936 House, and the New Town for the New Orthodox. (from the inner jacket flap). Profusely Illustrated in color and bl