On February 18th, RECORD published George Baird’s critique of the exhibition, Architecture Itself and Other Postmodern Myths, currently at the Canadian Centre of Architecture in Montreal. An attribution for an art work on display intrigued the editors. It was an attribution given to Jesse Reiser for “copy” of a design by Aldo Rossi’s Modena Cemetery.Reiser, whose firm Reiser + Umemoto is based in New York, has previously written of his involvement in this work in Drawing Matter. RECORD has excerpted part of his evocative essay telling of the days when the art of architectural drawing reigned supreme.
In the spring of 1979 John Hejduk invited Aldo Rossi to teach at Cooper Union. I’m not certain when he met Rossi, but Rossi was crucial, I would say, to John’s last major shift in his work. He saw something in Rossi’s analogical project that would allow him to transition from his purist work, which he was doing in relation to Bob Slutzky and others, to his metaphysical late projects. That is my intuition as to why he wanted Rossi. He invited him originally to teach the thesis group, but John was unhappy with their work so he shifted Rossi to the third-year studio, where I happened to be….
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