Arizona State University

Faculty Member, School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture

Assistant Professor History and Theory

College of Design

About

Renata Hejduk is an Assistant Professor of Architectural History and Theory in the School of Architecture, College of Architecture and Environmental Design, Arizona State University. She received a Ph.D.  Architectural History & Theory from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA in June 2001. She has a Master’s Degree in Contemporary Art History and Theory from Tufts University, Medford, MA. She received her AB in  from Barnard College, Columbia University in May of 1986. In 2000 she received a  National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Fellowship and has presented at numerous international and national conferences. She is the recipient of numerous professional and academic grants including a Graham Foundation Grant for her forthcoming book.

Professionally,  she served as the 2005 Co-Chair of  “The Art of Architecture: The Science of Architecture” the 95th annual meeting of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture. She is a Member, Board of Directors for The John Hejduk Soundings Fellowship at Harvard University, Graduate School of Design. Previous to her academic career she was the Assistant Curator of European and Contemporary Art at the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT; the Curatorial Associate for the Photograph Collection Harvard University Art Museums, The Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, MA.

She recently published “Negotiating Landscapes”, an essay on the work of Chicago Architect David Hovey co-authored with Darren Petrucci  in The Nature of Dwellings: The Architecture of David Hovey, ed. Cheryl Kent. New York: Rizzoli International Publisher  and “A Generation on the Move: The Emancipatory Function of Architecture in the Radical Avant-Garde 1960-1972” published in Transportable Environments 3, eds. Robert Kronenburg and Filiz Klassen. London: Taylor and Francis Publishing Group, 2005. She is the co-editor of The Art of Architecture: The Science of Architecture the proceedings of the 2005 ACSA Annual Meeting. Her forthcoming books and essays include: Saved: The Religious Imagination in Modern and Contemporary Architecture, edited with Jim Williamson, to be published by Monacelli Press, NY. This work includes new essays and reprints by architects and authors such as: Juhani Pallassma, Alberto Perez-Gomez, Susan Henderson, Denis Hollier, K. Michael Hays, et al.

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