John Hejduk: Three Projects

In 1969, at the behest of his students and with support from The Architectural League and the Graham Foundation, John Hejduk published Three Projects—a set of texts and drawings culminating “a ten-year effort and search into generating principles of form and space.” The principle in question was his Diamond Thesis, a long-standing inquiry into the spatial possibilities that emerge from the isometric projection of a diamond.

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This exhibition—part of an ongoing series of hallway shows presenting material from the Architecture Archive—features the now rare publication in full. Also shown are related correspondence from the Archive; contextual records generously provided by Joan Ockman, The Architectural League of New York, and the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts; and an illuminating essay by Stan Allen—"John Hejduk’s Axonometric Degree Zero” (Drawing Matter, 2019).