11. JEF7REY HILDNER | ARCHITECT \u2014 Gallery 24
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LEGACY LABYRINTH: WALL, CANVAS, PAGE, AND SCREEN\u201cGreat art is the outward expression of an inner life of the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world.\u201d \u2014Edward Hopper
\u201cWe bring to our projects the architecture of ourselves." \u2015Mikhail Bahtkin
ART IS A CHESS GAME OF FORM & STORY\u2015
WAGED ON THE BATTLEFIELD OF THE AESTHETIC & SYMBOLIC RECTANGLE:
WALL, CANVAS, PAGE, AND SCREEN
THE ARMIES OF FORM & STORY FIGHT THE WAR OF ART
THEY FIGHT FOR OUR MIND AND SOUL AND HEART
Featured in the viewer above:
A shard of ancient suns\u2014the steel-beam Telescope of the Dante|Telescope Monolith sights the North Star
I present here in Gallery 24 selected images that tell a bit of a story about my work overall . . . about my primary life-endeavor as an architect, a painter, and a writer, fascinated by the dynamic union in art of Words & Pictures: the dual-coding resonance\u2014poetical, historical, metaphorical\u2014of the Verbal & Visual . . . about the architecture of myself that I bring to my work\u2014including my battle with grief over the passing of my partner, Laura Middleton. (See also LIVE B.R.A.V.E. | The Middleton Memorial.)
ARCHITECT, PAINTER, WRITER
"One learns to look behind the facade, to grasp the root of things. One learns to recognize the hidden currents, the prehistory of the visible." \u2015Paul Klee
I lead with a photo of most important built project to date: Dante|Telescope House (1991-1996), Silver Spring, Maryland\u2014aka (D)ANTE|Telescope House\u2014published in Global Architecture Houses: photographed by Yukio Futagawa. Commissioned by my friend and patron David Zlowe, Dante\u200a|\u200aTelescope House won the New Jersey Chapter of The American Institute of Architects \u201cBlue Ribbon Award for Excellence in Design."
The project expresses a tapestry of themes that weave through my work, including this theme:
"The problem is to evoke the simultaneous presence of painting and architecture." \u2014Theo Van Doesburg
Elsewhere in my Legacy Labyrinth (JEF7REY HILDNER | ARCHITECT \u2014 Paintings), I write at length about the missing "D" (the phantom "D," the implied "D") in "DANTE," which resulted in the word "ANTE," meaning "before, prior to," that you see on the North Star Monolith aka Dante|Telescope Monolith\u2014the totemic exterior mural-sculpture that foremost represents the heart and soul and mind of the project. You can see more photos of the house in Gallery B and in my book VISUAL EF9ECTS | Architecture and the Chess Game of Form & Story, where I write about the Dante|Telescope Monolith, specifically, in my essay Formalism: Move | Meaning."
I regard a building, painting, and book as primary cultural expressions of what I call The Aesthetic & Symbolic Rectangle: the basis of art\u2014whether wall, canvas, page, or screen.
I WORK ON THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE RECTANGLE: THE AESTHETIC & SYMBOLIC RECTANGLE
Think of the 40 frames in the viewer above\u2014the 40 Aesthetic & Symbolic Rectangles (within the 41st Aesthetic & Symbolic Rectangle of the viewer screen itself)\u2014as merely 1.67 seconds in the 24-frames-per-second 90-minute feature film of my creative life. They do little more than hint at my output. But they do signal some of the universal themes that fascinate me, speak to me, and call me to the adventure every day:
- the theme of Dante, author of The Divine Comedy, about our existential journey, at the very least metaphorical and psychological, from the Inferno to Paradise. Dante starts his epic poem with the line, "I do not yet know how I arrived here"\u2014evoking the concept of entrance, the subtext deeply architectural, whether the architecture of a building or of life itself. I etched that line, in Dante's original Italian, in one of the two sandblasted glass panels that flank the front door to Dante|Telescope House. Italian architect Giuseppe Terragni brought Dante's Divine Comedy to life architecturally in the 1930s. Terragni evokes through his drawings for his exquisite but unbuilt Danteum\u2014as I seek to evoke through Dante|Telescope House\u2014the co-origins of literature and architecture: the first books were buildings and the first buildings were books. The Dante|Telescope Monolith and the interior of the house seek to recall these origins through reverberations of the mind and soul and heart. The project is also an homage to Terragni, to his consciousness and his Danteum\u2014the architectural North Star of my viewpoint, for which I crafted these eight words: Architecture is a story told through a building
- themes of poetry and myth, painting and music and astronomy\u2014hence the Dante Monolith North Star Telescope, the image I lead with in the viewer above. Iconically, the first buildings were temples, and the Oxford English Dictionary defines the word temple as "the sacred space marked out by astronomer-priests for the observation of reality." A building still today is sacred space: the space marked out for the observation of the outer reality of the stars and the contemplation (con-temple-ation) of the inner reality of the architecture of ourselves. Think of later-day temples like Medieval cathedrals\u2014books in stone, buildings as books\u2014and you'll get a sense of how these various themes about the origins of architecture's identity knit together
- the theme of Daedalus\u2014in ancient Greek mythology, Daedalus was the legendary architect who invented, designed, and built the world's first Labyrinth, which I believe to be not only a metaphor for the floor plan of the human condition but also the conceptual Floor Plan of the Architecture of the World. These twin themes, Daedalus and the Labyrinth, thread through my work. I named one of my books Daedalus 9. I wrote about Daedalus and his Labyrinth for Peter Waldman's book Connective Tissues, my essay serving as the book's Epilogue: "Labyrinth R.U.N."
- the theme of Chess and the Silver Knight, my avatar, and who I have dubbed the avatar of Art: the crusader of what I term Significant Architecture\u2014Silver Knight Architecture, an Architecture that goes beyond visual effects . . . an Architecture of VISUAL EF9ECTS: an Architecture of Form & Story
- the theme of the rectangle: what I call The Aesthetic & Symbolic Rectangle\u2014
These are core existential, metaphysical, and compositional themes that I hope the 40 frames in the viewer above convey
These are core artistic themes that I quest to grok . . .
My rock
Today no less than yesterday
And seek to quicken through wall, canvas, page
And screen
THE CHESSBOARD OF ART IS THE ARENA OF COLLABORATIVE CONFLICT BETWEEN AN ABSTRACT AESTHETIC SYSTEM (CHESS MOVES: FORM) AND A SYMBOLIC IMAGE SYSTEM (CHESS MEANING: STORY)
FORM AND STORY REPRESENT THE TWO SIDES OF THE CREATIVE CHESSBOARD:
TWO SIDES OF ONE UNIVERSAL GAME, PLAYED AND REPLAYED\u2015
THE EPIC CHESS GAME OF ART
GALLERY 24 | WORDS & PICTURES
Near the middle of the sequence of 40 slides in the viewer above, you will see "Daedalus #1," which I include in my book VISUAL EF9ECTS | Architecture and the Chess Game of Form & Story. The collage conveys major obsessions and fascinations that I first expressed through architecture in Dante|Telescope House and that still, today, continue to shape my heart, my mind, my soul . . . and therefore everything I create\u2014
Obsessions and fascinations that include . . .
(And I know this is redundant, but it also reflects my working process . . . writing and rewriting\u2014this is the first draft, which I forgot that I wrote when I returned to develop this page weeks earlier during the 9 weeks I've now spent in the Z.O.N.E. [Zero Outside Normal Engagement] creating, designing, and building this Legacy Labyrinth . . . seeking, as Cezanne advised, to "advance the canvas all at once.")
1) the ancient, enduring connection between architecture and astronomy\u2014and between architecture and literature/writing . . . the first books were buildings / the first buildings were books . . . the first buildings were temples: sacred space marked out by astronomer priests ( the first architects) for the observation of and contemplation (con-temple-ation) of reality . . . of the physical architecture of the visible universe deep beyond the night sky and of the metaphysical architecture of the invisible universe deep behind human space and time
2) the metaphor of the knight, especially The Silver Knight, of my invention, my avatar and what I regard as the avatar of what I call The Chess Game of Art
3) the legendary architect of Greek myth, inventor of the Labyrinth: Daedalus . . . who Joseph Campbell called "the hero of the way of thought" . . . and who in many ways, I regard as my avatar too . . . The Avatar of Memory, it now strikes me, the eternal architect, Daedalus, flawed hero, whose Labyrinth, like all architecture, represents resistance to forgetfulness . . . and whose story has shaped my consciousness and thus my work: my buildings, paintings, essays, screenplays, and books. As I said above, I write about Daedalus in Peter Waldman's book Connective Tissues\u2014in the book's Epilogue: "Labyrinth R.U.N."
\u265e|7 See how these themes become architectural reality in my current projects:
ARCHITECTURE IS THE STAGE SET FOR THE DRAMA OF LIFE\u2015THE DRAMA OF LIFE AND DEATH
ARCHITECTURE IS A STORY TOLD THROUGH A BUILDING
ARCHITECTURE IS A METAPHOR FOR THE FORM & STORY OF THE WORLD
THE WORLD IS A LABYRINTH
For more about my theory and practice, see my book VISUAL EF9ECTS | Architecture and the Chess Game of Form & Story.
\u265e|7 And to hear my composition "M.A.R.S."\u2014featured in the photo of me playing a 9' Steinway concert grand\u2014go to: JEF7REY HILDNER | ARCHITECT \u2014 Music
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Follow these links to explore my Legacy Labyrinth . . .
These 11 links and other Internet Archive links will thread you through the labyrinth of my life's work\u2014
work that I hope will inspire you the way other people's work inspires me:
Henry Trucks | Madison Gray | Metaphysical Warrior | The Architect Painter
The Hero's Journey House | The Architect Painter Press
\u265e|7 In addition to the 11 main galleries in my Legacy Labyrinth\u2014indicated by the 11 "Master Links" listed above\u2014the following Internet Archive galleries display other aspects of my work:
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\u201cA hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder: fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won: the hero comes back from this mysterious adventure with the power to bestow boons on his fellow man.\u201d
\u2014Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1949)
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Actively involved in architectural education since 1989\u2014his first gig was as a visiting critic for a graduate design studio at The University of Texas at Arlington\u2014Hildner received, in 1993, while teaching full-time at New Jersey Institute of Technology, a "New Faculty Award" from the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture for excellence in teaching. He has variously lectured, conducted seminars on architectural theory, and led design studios at many universities\u2014including University of Tennessee, University of Pennsylvania, University of Virginia, Pratt Institute, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Parsons School of Design | The New School, and Syracuse University Florence, where he participated in the spring 2016 symposium on Formalism (code name: "The F Word"). His symposium presentation, "Visual Ef9ects," as well as his Syracuse University Florence follow-up lecture, "The House of the Human Face," form the basis for his book Visual Ef9ects.
A Ventures Foundation, New York City, awarded Hildner a generous grant in 2012 to support his endeavor as a painter. His artwork Ithaca Collage (40 x 40 in.) was displayed at The Center for Contemporary Art, Bedminster, New Jersey, in their 2010 juried International "Art in Architecture" Exhibition. In 2012, he created the commissioned giclee-on-canvas Ithaca g aka Chess Lawn (1 x 1.85 m), a digital remix of his oil on canvas Ithaca (16 x 20 in.), for the offices of the Fujitsu Corporation in Hamburg, Germany. His project Dante\u200a|\u200aTelescope House won the 1995 New Jersey Chapter of The American Institute of Architects \u201cBlue Ribbon Award for Excellence in Design.\u201d
Write Brave.
Paint Brave.
Architect Brave.
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