Wall House 2 (A. E. Bye House) Project , Ridgefield, Connecticut (Isometric projection)

John Hejduk

1973

An isometric color-pencil on sepia diazoprint by John Hejduk that imagines Wall House 2 as a sculptural ‘inhabited wall’—stacked, curving rooms attached to a central vertical spine.

You’re struck by the soft, pastel biomorphic volumes—greens, pinks, oranges—stacked beneath a cool gray slab, their sinuous balconies and thin supports floating against a warm, grainy sepia ground.

As part of Hejduk’s Wall Houses, this drawing helped recast architectural drawing as a means for poetic, narrative and sculptural exploration, challenging functionalist norms and influencing later critical and conceptual architects.

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Art Terms

Architectural drawing Architecture Diazotype Colored pencil Drawing Conceptual art

Exhibitions

Built in USA: Post-War Architecture

1953

Architecture in the New York Area

1952

Integrated Building: Kitchen, Bathroom, and Storage

1945

Modern Architecture for the Modern School

1942