Habitat and inhabitant

摘要

The first and last articles in this issue of arq draw from the work of John Hejduk (1929-2000), the architect, artist, and writer who became famous as much for his teaching and poetry as his designs. Andrew Carr's opening text recalls Lily Chi's reflection on Hejduk's distinctive projects - which, she says, had a specific, scripted quality where it was 'no longer possible to tell what is being "designed", the habitat or the inhabitant [...]'. Carr's series of design studies (pp. 94-112) propose architectural objects and their rhythms of inhabitation to explore the temporality of architecture. Carr talks about ideas of 'succession' and 'duration' in order to investigate what K. Michael Hays called (when writing about Hejduk's work) 'the architectural chronotope', meaning the artistic connection of spatial and temporal relationships.