“Too Radical to Implement Yet Too Relevant to Ignore”: John Hejduk’s Kreuzberg Tower

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Robert Slinger, a founding partner of Berlin based practice Kapok, narrates the story of a building “too radical to implement and too relevant to ignore.” Having lived in John Hejduk’s Kreuzberg Tower for eight years, Slinger “came to understand how Hejduk’s architecture both flexibly accommodates and yet asserts a presence which resists any attempts to co-opt it. Whilst impressed by its powerful exterior presence, its austerity and frontal directness left a strangely cold impression upon me.”

“A house knows who loves it.” – John Hejduk

Read more about the building at Save John Hejduk’s Kreuzberg Tower (2010) and find out more about the Kreuzberg Tower on ArchDaily. This short film is part of Christian Burckhardt’s Architects in Love series.

References: Uncube