The University of the Arts, 1989
The Riga Project
The Riga Project
The University of the Arts, 1989
In conjunction with the 2020 exhibition Housing the Friendship, Winsing Art Place Bookstore presents a collection of publications by Czech-American architect and educator John Hejduk (1929-2000), including the trilogy series Mask of Medusa (1985), Bovisa (1987), and Berlin Night (1993), among other rare and out-of-print books.
The Riga Project is the catalog of an exhibition held by Hejduk from November 20 to December 22, 1987, at the Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery and its hallway at the University of the Arts, Philadelphia. It includes Hejduk’s design manuscripts and documents the construction process of two special structures.
The book describes in detail the two prototypical structures of the “Object/Subject.” The “Object” and “Subject” are two of Hejduk’s theatrical characters who accompany him from one city to another, in some cases to places he has never visited. After their debut in 1987, they appeared in Riga as part of the 1989 trilogy Vladivostok, and eventually became The Riga Project.
