"As architectural practice and education keep turning into a formulaic pragmatism, John Hejduks poetic pedagogy and artistic work, as well as his emphasis on drawing, craft and making, concretize an alternative approach of crucial value. His work expands the narrow expressive scope of contemporary architecture to the realms of fantasy and dream, ritual and narrative, fear and hope. As architecture is restricted by a shallow quasi-rationality, Hejduk“s view of the art of building as an ethical and poetic exploration provides a demanding and liberating alternative perspective. Kevin Storys book mediates the deep complexities of Hejduks thinking, work and mental world through a successful method of multiple exposure." - Juhani Pallasmaa, Architect SAFA, HonFAIA, IntFRIBA, Professor emeritus (Aalto University, Helsinki), Writer
"John Hedjuks crusade for a poetics of architecture seem even more urgent in our time of enormous corporate practices. Kevin Storys book, The Complexities of John Hejduks Work, consists of concepts and stories underlying the extraordinary force of his convictions. John was an architect of ideas at a time when modern architecture had become rigid and unimaginative. In the midst of postmodern eclecticism, John taught that we should keep our umbilical cord connection to modernity. His amazing imagination gave wings to Jungs reflection that each of us is modern in search of a soul. From meeting him in 1974, to our last exchange when he wrote enclosing, Lines: No Fire Can Burn (1999), he kept the faith for architecture a gift of future generations." - Steven Holl, Architect
