PLATFORM Poetics of Building

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UTSOA Advisory Council FY 2012-2013

310 Inner Campus Drive B7500 Austin, Texas 78712-1009

Chair Bill C. Booziotis, FAIA, LEED AP Vice-Chair Frank M. Aldridge, III Past Chair Bobbie J. Barker Executive Committee Susan Benz, AIA Diane Cheatham Kent Collins Diana W. Keller Michael J. McCall, AIA John V. Nyfeler, FAIA, LEED AP Dan S. Shipley, FAIA Michael I. Wheeler Members Lexa M. Acker, AIA Emeritus Richard M. Archer, III, FAIA, LEED AP Phillip J. Arnold, Hon. ASLA, LEED AP John Avila, Jr. David B. Barrow, Jr., AIA Marvin E. Beck, AIA Emeritus Ken Bentley Myron G. Blalock, III Timothy Blonkvist, FAIA, LEED AP William Lyle Burgin Dick Clark, III, FAIA Tommy N. Cowan, FAIA H. Hobson Crow, III, AIA Gary M. Cunningham, FAIA William Curtis Bibiana Bright Dykema, AIA Darrell A. Fitzgerald, FAIA, LEED AP Robert Lawrence Good, FAIA, AICP, LEED AP John Grable, FAIA Charles E. Gromatzky, AIA, USGBC, ULI R. Jay Hailey, Jr. J. David Harrison Christopher C. Hill, AIA Ford Hubbard, III Ellen King (In Memoriam) Reed A. Kroloff, AIA Sam Kumar David C. Lake, FAIA Sandra Drews Lucas, ASID, TBAE, TAID Graham B. Luhn, FAIA Patricia R. Mast Gilbert L. Mathews, Hon. AIA Dana Edwards Nearburg Donald Pender, AIA, REFP, LEED AP BD+C Judith R. Pesek, IIDA, LEED AP Charles A. Phillips, AIA, AIC-PA Boone Powell, FAIA Leilah Powell Howard E. Rachofsky Gay Ratliff Elizabeth Chu Richter, FAIA Roland Roessner, Jr. Deedie Rose Lloyd Scott William Shepherd, AIA Lenore M. Sullivan Emily Summers Jerry S. Sutton, AIA Helen L. Thompson David H. Watkins, FAIA Gordon L. White, MD Coke Anne M. Wilcox Kathy Zarsky, Assoc. AIA, LEED AP BD+C

+ SPRING 2013 + POETICS OF BUILDING 40

Texas (1954)

He designed a church where his own coffin couldn’t fit through the door Water color prevailed I have known you for five years and I still think you are a chicken shit My Thesis is a crematorium and my Father is the undertaker The master of Lockhart is ninety-six today The Blue Norther froze the sand upon the sills The Lampasas jail waited for the bus The corrugated metal baked as the shadow grew Guadalupe Boogie Woogie was painted under a fluorescent The Great Dane upstairs pushes the marble over the floor with his snout I am a member of the FBI and I live upstairs you live downstairs He crushed the beer can with the stump of his arm Mountain lions are within the City Limits and tarantulas are on the screen When the locusts flew into town they slept upon the asphalt pick-up trucks popped them Bull dogs wept when crickets fell Armadillos sniffled when gloves released the four-year-olds cried The beetles went for the eyes It’s a radar zone

you got to keep your mind on the speedometer Shake your sheets the scorpions are no good if you’re allergic He counted the tongue and groove wood ceiling slats and found it odd […] in 1954 Give a little clap to Jesus Paul Cret designed this building My God! you’re sitting in his chair and he likes Tigers Milk It’s not exactly Todi or Leonardo but it will have to do She really loves me but that damn Town Planner is in the way The rocking chairs of Waco are half way in between When you come enter her in Texarkana I am taking a freighter out of Galveston should be in Yugoslavia in about five weeks

John Hejduk Austin

From Such Places as Memory Poems 1953-1996, John Hejduk MIT Press, 1998.

Non-Profit Org. U.S. Postage Paid Austin, Texas Permit No. 391


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