John Hejduk

Architect, artist, educator

John Quentin Hejduk (July 19, 1929 – July 3, 2000) was an American architect, artist and educator of Czech origin who spent much of his life in New York City.

Hejduk is noted for having had a profound interest in the fundamental issues of shape, organization, representation, and reciprocity.Hejduk studied at the Cooper Union School of Art and Architecture, the University of Cincinnati, and the Harvard Graduate School of Design.

He worked in several offices in New York including that of I.M.Pei and Partners and the office of A.M.

Kinney and Associates.He established his own practice in New York City in 1965.