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A symposium on the legacy of John Hejduk (1929-2000) - An organized event at the Tongji University College of Architecture and Urban Planning. Invited by Yung Ho Chang (Professor of Architecture at Tongji University and Professor of Architecture at MIT) together with James P. Williamson (Professor and Dean, College of Architecture at Texas Tech University), Prof. Ge Ming (Professor and Vice Dean, School of Architecture, Southeast University) and Thomas Tsang (Associate Professor, Department of Architecture at University of Hong Kong.)

John Hejduk graduated from the the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in 1950. In 1964 he returned to the institution to teach in the School of Art and Architecture. In 1975, he became Dean of the School of Architecture, where he developed the school's renowned pedagody for the next 25 years. In Hejduk's words:

"I believe in the social contract therefore I teach. I believe that the University is one of the last places that protects and preserves freedom, therefore teaching is also a socio/political act, among other things. I believe in books and the written word, therefore I fabricate works with the hope that they will be recorded in books. I am pragmatic and believe in keeping records. I believe to record is to bear witness. The book I wrote, Victims is to bear witness and to remember. I believe in the density of the sparse. I believe in place and the spirit of place."