John Shannon Hendrix Explained

John Shannon Hendrix
Birth Date:	27 April 1959
Alma Mater:	Art Institute of Chicago Rhode Island School of Design University of Illinois at Chicago Cornell University
Employer:	Roger Williams University
Adjunct Professor of Art and Architectural History at Roger Williams University
Education:	B.F.A. M.A. M.Arch. Ph.D.

John Shannon Hendrix (born 1959) is an architectural historian and philosopher who has written and lectured extensively on the subjects of architecture, art, philosophy, aesthetics, psychoanalysis, science, culture and history. Much of his work focuses on connections among those topics, such as interactions of vision, perception, and sensation with the arts and architecture,^[1] the relationships between psychoanalysis and architecture,^[2] physical sciences and architecture,^[3] and philosophy and architecture.^[4] His career focuses on research and writing about "mostly European precedents in architecture and philosophy, for the purpose of suggesting alternatives to the practice of architecture and philosophy at the beginning of the twenty-first century."^[5]

He has taught at Roger Williams University since 1999. He was Professor of Architectural History at the University of Lincoln, Lincoln, England from 2007 through 2015,^[6] Lecturer, History of Art and Visual Culture at the Rhode Island School of Design from 2004 through 2010,^[7] and has been lecturer at John Cabot University in Rome, the University of Connecticut, Rhode Island College, and the University of Massachusetts Lowell. He earned his B.F.A. in painting at the Art Institute of Chicago, M.A. at the Rhode Island School of Design, M.Arch. at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and a Ph.D. in architecture at Cornell University.

Research and Theory

Hendrix's research and theoretical focus is directed toward developing modern alternatives to conventional practice of architecture and philosophy. Proposing approaches to contemporary practice of art and architecture, his teachings and writings relate interdisciplinary disciplines including aesthetics, cosmology, philosophy, and psychoanalysis.^[8]

Connecting concepts of justice with the symbolic nature of architecture, Hendrix has analyzed how medieval cathedrals' use of light provide symbolism of justice.^[9]

Developing new directions in urban planning based on psychoanalytic theory, Hendrix is a member of an international research group, based at Oxford Brookes University, designated "Architecture on the Couch: Psychoanalysis and the Environment."^[10]

To explore interdependencies among ancient and medieval philosophies and medieval architecture, Hendrix has been scheduled as a keynote speaker at the 2018 Fundamental Structures conference at Durham University.^[11]

Books

• Book: Cheney . Liana De Girolami . Hendrix . John Shannon . Neoplatonism and the Arts (Studies in Art History) . 2002 . Lewiston, N.Y. . . 978-0-773469-85-3 .
• Book: Hendrix, John Shannon . The Relation between Architectural Forms and Philosophical Structures in the Work of Francesco Borromini in Seventeenth-Century Rome . 2002 . Lewiston . . 978-0-773469-95-2 .
• Book: Hendrix, John Shannon . Architectural Forms and Philosophical Structures . 2003 . New York . . 978-0-820467-26-9 .
• Book: Hendrix, John Shannon . History and Culture in Italy . 2003 . Lanham . . 978-0-761826-28-6 .
• Book: Cheney . Liana De Girolami . Hendrix . John Shannon . Neoplatonic Aesthetics: Music, Literature, and the Visual Arts . 2004 . New York . . 978-0-820471-11-2 .
• Book: Hendrix, John Shannon . Platonic Architectonics: Platonic Philosophies and the Visual Arts . 2004 . New York . . 978-0-820471-10-5 .
• Book: Hendrix, John Shannon . Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Spirit: From Plotinus to Schelling and Hegel . 2005 . New York . . 978-0-820476-32-2 .
• Book: Hendrix, John Shannon . Architecture and Psychoanalysis: Peter Eisenman and Jacques Lacan . 2006 . New York . . 978-0-820481-71-5 .
• Book: Hendrix, John Shannon . Robert Grosseteste: Philosophy of Intellect and Vision . 2010 . Sankt Augustin . Academia Verlag . 978-3-896655-24-0 .
• Book: Hendrix . John Shannon . Carman . Charles H. . Renaissance Theories of Vision (Visual Culture in Early Modernity) . 2010 . Farnham, Surrey . . 978-1-409400-24-0 .
• Book: Hendrix, John Shannon . Architecture as Cosmology: Lincoln Cathedral and English Gothic Architecture . 2011 . New York . . 978-1-433113-16-1 .
• Book: Emmons . Paul . Hendrix . John Shannon . Lomholt . Jane . The Cultural Role of Architecture: Contemporary and Historical Perspectives . 2012 . Abingdon, Oxon . . 978-0-415783-41-5 .
• Book: Hendrix, John Shannon . The Splendor of English Gothic Architecture . 2013 . London . Parkstone . B016XN18EO .
• Book: Hendrix, John Shannon . The Contradiction between Form and Function in Architecture . 2014 . Abingdon, Oxon . . 978-0-415639-14-9 .
• Book: Temple . Nicholas . Hendrix . John Shannon . Frost . Christian . Bishop Robert Grosseteste and Lincoln Cathedral: Tracing Relationships between Medieval Concepts of Order and Built Form . 2014 . Farnham, Surrey . . 978-1-472412-75-1 .
• Book: Hendrix, John Shannon . Unconscious Thought in Philosophy and Psychoanalysis . 2015 . London . . 978-1-137538-12-3 .
• Book: Hendrix . John Shannon . Holm . Lorens Eyan . Architecture and the Unconscious . 2016 . Abingdon, Oxon . . 978-1-472456-47-2 .

Notes and References

1. Web site: Review: Renaissance Theories of Vision . Jacobs . Fredrika H. . August 16, 2012 . College Art Association Reviews . June 16, 2016 .
2. Book: Hendrix, John Shannon . Psychoanalysis and Identity in Architecture . Bandyopadhyay . Soumyen . Montiel . Guillermo Garma . The Territories of Identity: Architecture in the Age of Evolving Globalization . 2002 . Abingdon, Oxon . . 978-0-415622-88-2 .
3. Book Review: Bishop Robert Grosseteste and Lincoln Cathedral: Tracing Relationships between Medieval Concepts of Order and Built Form (Temple, Hendrix, & Frost, eds.) . Cuff . Andrew Jacob . Hortulus: The Online Graduate Journal of Medieval Studies . April 17, 2016 . June 18, 2016.
4. Hendrix . John Shannon . 1999 . Neoplatonic Philosophy and Roman Baroque Architecture . The European Studies Journal . 16 . 1 . 31–60.
5. Hendrix . John Shannon . 2012 . Theorizing a Contradiction between Form and Function in Architecture . South African Journal of Art History . 27 . 1 . 9–28 . 17 June 2016.
6. Web site: Prof John Hendrix - Professor of Architectural History . University of Lincoln . June 16, 2016.
7. Web site: John Hendrix Organizes Conference in UK . Rhode Island School of Design . February 17, 2010 . June 16, 2016.
8. Web site: John Shannon Hendrix - Art Architecture Theory . John Shannon Hendrix . August 2, 2017.
9. Book: Hendrix, John . The Architecture of Lincoln Cathedral and the Institution of Justice . Renée . Tobe . Jonathan . Simon . Nicholas . Temple . Architecture and Justice: Judicial Meanings in the Public Realm . March 21, 2013 . Abingdon, Oxon . . https://books.google.com/books?id=z6xzxYVZuMkC&pg=PT370 . 978-1-409-43173-2 .
10. Web site: Architecture on the Couch: Psychoanalysis and the Environment . . August 2, 2017 .
11. Web site: Institute of Advanced Study: Fundamental Structures . . August 2, 2017.