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(D)ANTE | TELESCOPE HOUSE | 1991-1996. Photograph © Yukio Futagawa GA Photographers. GA Houses #51, 1997
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J E F 7 R E Y  H I L D N E R _| ..T H E _A R C H I T E C T | PA I N T E R _._________

ARCHITECT, PAINTER, AND WRITER JEF7REY HILDNER launched The Architect Painter Press in 2005 under the banner, “Live Brave.” The Architect Painter Press presents Hildner’s buildings, paintings, and insights—work that reflects his focus on the visible and invisible architecture of art and life. The Architect Painter Press also seeks to present the work of other artists. Current titles range from Hildner's books Visual Ef9ects, Daedalus 9, Henry Trucks — Painter, Picasso Lessons, and Garches 1234 to his books Metaphysical Warrior and Live Brave. His work also appears in a wide array of other venues—for example, Architectural Record, Journal of Architectural Education, ANY, Oz, The Christian Science Monitor, IMDb, and Global Architecture Houses. The book Architectural Formalism, by Hakan Anay, features Hildner’s essay “Formalism: Move | Meaning” alongside essays by theorists Rosalind Krauss, Peggy Deamer, Robert Slutzky, and Colin Rowe. Hildner received an Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture award for excellence in teaching. His project Dante|Telescope House won the New Jersey Chapter of The American Institute of Architects “Blue Ribbon Award for Excellence in Design.” He paints under the name Henry Trucks. He writes under the names Madison Gray, Eliot Plum, and Michelangelo A. Roland Slate. Hildner’s one-word life theme—architecture—shapes his quest, his outlook, and his output, including his work as screenwriter and story architect. He earned his undergraduate and graduate degrees from Princeton University. 




The 1:4:9 Observatory Chess Mural occupies the Shadow Zone cast by the Dante|Telescope Monolith . . .
along the northwest-southeast geographical compass line.
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A R C H I T E C T



 BUILDING ARCHITECT
1. The Spanish Connection—Project for a new Casa Hispanica at Columbia University | 2007
2. Diebenkorn Chess House [aka Longitudinal Projection House (video)] | 2002
3. (D)ANTE|Telescope House [aka Dante|Telescope House]—Silver Spring, MD | Photographed by Yukio Futagawa, Global Architecture Houses #51 | March 1997
4. Library and Residence Hall—Tenacre Foundation, Princeton, NJ | Architectural Record | February 1991
5. Gardener's Cottage Addition—Tenacre Foundation, Princeton, NJ | Architectural Record February 1991 | Architecture New Jersey 2:1990 | Oz No. 12: 1990
6. Stillman Residence Addition—Princeton, NJ | Architecture New Jersey Issue 1:1989
7. Cafeteria and Garden—Tenacre Foundation, Princeton, NJ | Architecture New Jersey 1:1986 | Architectural Record October 1985

Projects include design of original elements:
Interiors | Furniture | Light Fixtures | Textiles | Paintings | Glass | Interior Murals | Exterior Murals | Landscapes

AIA AWARD WINNER
EXCELLENCE IN ARCHITECTURE: "Blue Ribbon Award for Excellence in Design" | 1995
—The Highest Honor Awarded by the New Jersey Chapter of The American Institute of Architects. Awarded to Dante|Telescope House
aka The ZloweHouse


A shard of ancient suns — the steel beam telescope of the Dante|Telescope Monolith points to the North Star.


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Sand-blasted glass at the front door to Dante|Telescope House depicts an abstract plan of the Dante Monolith.
The panel presents key elements of the building's aesthetic system, proportional system, and poetic system.
The reference to Dante announces a core theme of the project: the ancient, original connection between literature and
architecture, wherein the first buildings were books, and the first books were buildings.

And the first line from Dante's Divine Comedy, Io non so ben ridir com'i' v'entrai ("I do not yet know how I entered") etched
in the glass at the entry of the house hints at an even deeper, metaphysical premise, signified by the N (North) and the
telescope.

Architecture orients us in the world—and inspires us to look deep into the nature of reality.
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CERVANTES facade for The Spanish Connection—Project for a new Casa Hispanica at Columbia University | 2007


ORION CINEMA HOUSE aka Longitudinal Projection House : Diebenkorn Chess House

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MAGAZINE ARCHITECT
CREATIVE DIRECTOR—graphic designer, photographer, and senior writer—for the print editions of The Christian Science Journal (monthly) and Christian Science Sentinel (weekly)
 450+ issues | 2004-2011



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P A I N T E R (aka Henry Trucks)

INSTALLATIONS, EXHIBITIONS, AWARDS, and GRANTS
"Control and Soul"—Exhibition (20 works): 2237 Gallery, Roseville, CA | Spring 2013
"Paint Space"—Exhibition (5 works): Christian Science Reading Room, Auburn, CA | Fall 2012
"Green, Purple, Orange"—Installation: Fujitsu Corporation, Hamburg, Germany | Spring 2012—Permanent
"Harbor + Labyrinth ii"—Installation: School of Architecture, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville | Spring 2012—Spring 2013
Grant—Æ Ventures Foundation, New York City | Spring 2012
"Lighthouse + Harbor"—Installation: Office of GM-Architekten, Hamburg, Germany | Spring 2011—Permanent
"Labyrinth ii"—Juried Show (Honorable Mention), Annual Juried Art Exhibition, South Shore Art Center Arts Festival 2011, Cohasset, Massachusettes | Spring 2011
"Mercury"—Juried Show: Annual Juried Art Exhibition, North River Arts Society, Marshfield, Massachusettes, Spring 2011
"Ithaca Collage"—Juried Show: Art in Architecture Exhibit of an International Juried Competition at The Center for Contemporary Art, Bedminster, New Jersey | Fall 2010
"The Spanish Connection"—Exhibition: Department of Spanish, Columbia University | Fall & Spring 2004-2005
"11 New Figure|Field Paintings for Architecture"—Exhibtion: School of Architecture, University of Virginia | Spring 1997
"7 Plastic Move|Meaning Paintings for Architecture"— Exhibition: School of Architecture, University of Virginia | Fall 1995
"Shift Happens _5 Works"—Exhibition: Bank Street College, New York City | Spring 1995
"Observatory: Inside/Outside"—Installation: Murals for Dante|Telescope House, Silver Spring, MD | 1995-permanent
"Window"—Installation: Mural for Forbes College, Princeton University | Spring 1981-Fall 1992


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T H E O R I S T / A U T H O R / B O O K _D E S I G N E R / P U B L I S H E R

THEORIST, AUTHOR, BOOK DESIGNER, PUBLISHER: THE ARCHITECT PAINTER PRESS
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 CONTRIBUTOR

ARCHITECTURAL FORMALISM edited by Hakan Anay—with Rosalind Krauss, Peggy Deamer, Robert Slutzky, and Colin Rowe
Includes the essay "Formalism: Move + Meaning" that first appeared in Architecture New York—translated into Turkish and published by Osmangazi University Department of Architecture, Osmangazi, Turkey | 2012


 ESSAYIST

PRINT ARTICLES (Not including over 200 articles on spritual metaphysics for The Christian Science Monitor and its sister periodicals)
The Wright stuff: Fallingwater, America's most famous modern house, made its architect a star—again—Review of Fallingwater Rising: Frank Lloyd Wright, E.J. Kaufmann, and America's Most Extraordinary House by Franklin Toker, The Christian Science Monitor | October 16, 2003

Remembering the Mathematics of the Ideal Villa—The Journal of Architectural Education, The MIT Press | February 1999
On Design: Doing the Digital Twist—ARTnews | June 1998
Move + Meaning: Making the Figure | Marking the Field—Global Architect Houses 51 | Spring 1997
7 Lessons of Painting for Architecture—Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture Proceedings | 1997
(D)Ante|TELESCOPE House—Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture Proceedings | 1997
Collage Reading: Braque | Picasso—Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture Proceedings | 1996
Formalism: Move | Meaning2  (Part 2)—Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture Proceedings | 1996
Formalism: Move + Meaning1 (Part 1)—ANY (Architecture New York) | Issue 11:1995
(D)Ante|TELESCOPE House—Architecture New Jersey | Issue 4:1992
Back to the Beginning Again; or, Redrawing the World—Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture Proceedings | 1992
First Light: Night of the Logarithmic Dwelling (Theoretical drawings)—Architecture New Jersey | Issue 4: 1991
The Writing of Architecture: Mnemosyne and the Wax Tablet—OZ: The Journal of the College of Architecture, Planning and Design at Kansas State University | Issue 12: 1990
Drawing as Contemplation—Architecture New Jersey | Issue 4:1990
The Power of a Small Painting—Commentary on In Luxembourg Gardens (1879) by John Singer Sargent, The Christian Science Monitor | May 1, 1989
How magnificent paint is—Commentary on Door to the River (1960) by Willem de Kooning + Ocean Park No. 125 (1980) by Richard Diebenkorn, The Christian Science Monitor | May 23, 1988
Where realism misses—Review of On the Rise by Paul Goldberger, The Christian Science Monitor | February 17, 1984

WEB ARTICLES—INTERNET ARCHIVE
Milton Avery: Puzzle Master—Internet Archive | Spring 2012
Empty/Full: Space-Defining Form (More lessons from Synthetic Cubism)—Internet Archive | Fall 2001
Significant Space: Turning a negative into a positive in the landscapes (and walls) of modern art—Internet Archive | Fall 2000
Rook's Move: Literal versus Phenomenal Collage—Internet Archive | Fall 1999 al versus Phenomenal Collage

WEB ARTICLES—deep_SIGHT REVIEW (by pen name Madison Gray) [Forthcoming on INTERNET ARCHIVE]
Central Park: Presence of the Rectangle/Presence of Mind
deep_SIGHT REVIEW | March 2002
A Pure Reflection
E.1027 House + Dante |Telescope House—the world between walls
deep_SIGHT REVIEW | August 2001
Milton Avery: Amplitude & Abstraction
Girl in wicker chair (1944) at the Williams College Museum of Art
deep_SIGHT REVIEW | July 2001
STOP: The First Breath of Fire
A fork in the road
deep_SIGHT REVIEW | 1 January 2001
Wrong!: Rising to Gehry's Defense
Taking on Hilton Kramer & The New York Observer
deep_SIGHT REVIEW | December 2000
The Leviathan and the Water Lily: The Ontology of Form
Guggenheim BILBAO + Guggenheim NYC—Metaphor and the Camouflage of Abstraction in the architecture of Frank Gehry
deep_SIGHT REVIEW | September 2000
Green Stripe: Rozanova
Amazons of the Avant-Garde: Guggenheim NYC
deep_SIGHT REVIEW | September 2000
Frozen Music
Above all expression: Frank Gehry | Like Coltrane
deep_SIGHT REVIEW | September 2000
Deep Paint: The Significant Retinal Space of Don Kunz
Optical Illuminance
deep_SIGHT REVIEW | September 2000
1907 Picasso Lessons: Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
The 6th Woman and Transfigurative Space
deep_SIGHT REVIEW | May 2000
Transfiguring: FigureField
Learning from Analytical & Synthetic Cubism
deep_SIGHT REVIEW | May 2000
The Substantiality of Architecture
DEFINITIONS: Not just Space and Light—Substance and Significance
deep_SIGHT REVIEW | April 2000
Barcelona Trialections: Gaudi, Mies & Meier
Casa Mila | Barcelona Pavilion | MACBA
deep_SIGHT REVIEW | March 2000
The Laws of the Mind: In Memory of Colin Rowe
deep_SIGHT REVIEW | November 1999
Knight Moves: Searching for Bobby Fisher/Deep Blue
Review of "The Un-Private House" Exhibition, Museum of Modern Art, NYC
deep_SIGHT REVIEW | August 1999

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E D U C A T O R

AWARDS
RUNNER-UP—McHALE FELLOWSHIP | Lead Juror: Lebbeus WoodS | 2000
EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING—NEW FACULTY AWARD | Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture | 1993
STUDIO CRITIC FOR NATIONAL STUDENT COMPETITION WINNERS:
Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill Traveling Fellowship M. Arch II | 1997/8 FINALIST (UVA)
Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill Traveling Fellowship M. Arch II | 1995/6 WINNER (UVA)
Society of Registered Architects National Student Design Competition | 1994 3RD PLACE (NJIT)
 
FACULTY MEMBER
THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE—Visiting Design-Build Critic / Project: "PAINT SPACE" | Spring 2012

PAINT SPACE: College of Architecture and Design @ The University of Tennessee / 1080p HD @ You Tube
"ARCHITECTS CREATE THE STAGE SET FOR THE DRAMA OF LIFE."

PARSONS THE NEW SCHOOL FOR DESIGN—Visiting Professor | Spring 2006
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON—Visiting Professor | Fall 2001-Spring 2002
PRATT INSTITUTE—Visiting Professor | Spring 1999
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA—Associate Professor | 1995-98
NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY—Assistant Professor | 1991-95
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON—Visiting Graduate Studio Critic | Fall 1989

JUROR
The University of Texas at Arlington | Summer 2012
University of Virginia School of Architecture 3rd and 4th Year Undergraduate Studio Evaluation | Fall 2011
Ken Roberts Memorial Delineation Competition | Dallas, Texas, Chapter of the AIA | 1997
Undergraduate and graduate studios at Syracuse, Cornell, Harvard, Columbia, Pratt, NYIT, Penn State, Northeastern, Maryland | 1989-2011

LECTURER/PRESENTER
"VISUAL EF9ECTS"—Syracuse University Florence Symposium, The F Word | February 2016
"The House of the Human Face"—Syracuse University Florence Studio Talk | February 2016

What, How, Why?—The University of Tennesse | Spring 2012
Inversions—Williams College | Winter Session 1998-2005
Backstory: Things to Come—University of Texas at Arlington | Fall 2001
Figure|Field—Pratt Institute, NYC | Spring 1999
7 Lessons of Painting for Architecture—Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture Annual Conference | 1997
(D)Ante|TELESCOPE House—Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture Annual Conference | 1997
Collage Reading: Braque | Picasso—Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture Annual Conference | 1996
Formalism: Move | Meaning (Part 2)—Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture Annual Conference | 1996
Architecture as Observatory: Move|Meaning—University of Virginia | Spring 1995
The Building as Book: The Book as Building—Pratt Institute, NYC | Fall 1993
At the Beginning Again; or, Redrawing the World—Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture Annual Conference | 1992
Architecture as a Convergence of Ideas—Lecturer and Course Coordinator for "Connections," Princeton Adult School, Princeton, NJ | Spring 1992
First Light—Pennsylvania State University | Spring 1992
Architecture and deconstruction: Part 1—Princeton Adult School, Princeton, NJ | Spring 1991
A Preface to Origins—University of Texas at Arlington | Fall 1989

COURSES
Studio | Undergraduate 3rd, 4th, and 5th years + Graduate all levels—for example:
CINEMATECTURE | Motion & eMotion: Morphotion
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Seminar | Architecture Theory | Graduate + Upper Level Undergraduate—for example:
Film Architecture | CINEMATECTURE. Seminar on literal and metaphorical connections between architecture and film. Significant films, such as Strike, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Metropolis, Berlin: Symphony of a Great City, Man with the Movie Camera, Playtime, Stardust Memories, and Blade Runner, in which architecture and urbanism are major visual and psychological dramatis personae and/or the architecture of the visual frame is central to a film's aesthetic structure, provide the basis for examination of the essential problem of Story and Form. In addition to emphasis on the interplay between action and environment and phenomena of cinematic-architectonic  space and form, the course also addresses the origins of motion in modern art, the development of a grammar of narrative/visual devices, and parallel developments in allied plastic arts. The course includes film viewing (including independent and web-based films), lectures, and discussion of readings. Students are introduced to specific software applications  as environments in which to produce and present a digital-based research or creative project.
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EDUCATION
A. B. With Honors + M. ARCH — P R I N C E T O N  U N I V E R S I T Y
 








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