Vintage 1995 “Adjusting Foundations” by John Hejduk Softcover Book

Up for sale is a Vintage 1995 “Adjusting Foundations” by John Hejduk Softcover Book! It measures 10 1/16” by 7 3/16” around the outside cover and contains 223 pages. The piece is in excellent overall condition with minor signs of wear consistent with its age and use (contains all pages; some scattered light surface wear to outside cover). Please message us if you have any questions. Thanks!

This exceptionally scarce 1995 architectural monograph, “Adjusting Foundations”, stands as a masterwork of late 20th century avant-garde design literature, capturing the profound theoretical genius of the iconic architect and legendary Dean of the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture at The Cooper Union, John Hejduk. Published by the newly established Monacelli Press during a golden era of high-design publishing, this volume serves as a primary instrument of late-modern architectural theory that seamlessly blends Hejduk's rich, cubist-inspired watercolor renderings with inventive textual dialogues to conceptualize sixty-one distinct project proposals, including intricate serpentine structures and horizontal labyrinthine plans. The striking cover illustration, derived from a traditional nineteenth-century Japanese ukiyo-e woodblock print depicting a chaotic samurai battle scene, serves as an intentional visual manifesto for the brilliant intellectual landscape contained within, which interrogates the complex spatial relationships existing between Eastern flat-plane printmaking, Western Cubism, and three-dimensional architectural geometry. Rather than acting as a standard retrospective portfolio of built works, this publication functions as a deeply poetic cross-disciplinary study where Hejduk treats the book medium itself as an architectural site, using a precise layout edited by Kim Shkapich to challenge traditional notions of form, narrative, and human habitability. Having been out of print for over three decades and increasingly difficult to source within the international antiquarian trade, this celebrated publication possesses significant institutional weight and remains an essential, highly collectible centerpiece for serious academic libraries, design connoisseurs, and rare book collections.

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