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John Shannon Hendrix

John Shannon Hendrix

Bristol, RI, US

 
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About 

  • John Shannon Hendrix is a professor at Roger Williams University in Rhode Island. He has also been a professor at the Rhode Island School of Design, the University of Lincoln in the UK, and John Cabot University in Rome. He has written several books on architecture, aesthetics, philosophy and psychoanalysis. He earned a PhD at Cornell University. 
  • Books written: Unconscious Thought in Philosophy and Psychoanalysis; The Contradiction Between Form and Function in Architecture; The Splendour of English Gothic Architecture; Architecture as Cosmology: Lincoln Cathedral and English Gothic Architecture; Robert Grosseteste: Philosophy of Intellect and Vision; Architecture and Psychoanalysis: Peter Eisenman and Jacques Lacan; Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Spirit: From Plotinus to Schelling and Hegel; Platonic Architectonics: Platonic Philosophies and the Visual Arts; Architectural Forms and Philosophical Structures; The Relation Between Architectural Forms and Philosophical Structures in the Work of Francesco Borromini in Seventeenth-Century Rome; History and Culture in Italy.
  • Books co-edited: Architecture and the Unconscious, Bishop Robert Grosseteste and Lincoln Cathedral; The Cultural Role of Architecture; Renaissance Theories of Vision; Neoplatonic Aesthetics; Neoplatonism and the Arts

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Employment 

Roger Williams University, School of Art, Architecture and Historic Preservation, Bristol, RI, US, Adjunct Professor of Art and Architectural History

Classes taught: Theory of Architecture, Modern Architecture, Early Modern Architecture, Modern Art, Renaissance Architecture, Medieval Art and Architecture, Classical Art and Architecture, Survey of Art and Architectural History, Core Aesthetics, Architecture Design Studio, Italian Rationalism, History and Culture in Italy

Aug 1999 - current
 

Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), Providence, RI, US, Adjunct Professor of Art and Architectural History

Classes taught: Architecture and Psychoanalysis, Modern Architecture, Renaissance Architecture, Survey of Art and Architectural History

Jan 2004 - Jun 2010
 

Education 

Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, US, PhD, History of Architecture

Dissertation research on Francesco Borromini and Roman Baroque architecture; classes with C. Otto, M. Carpo, A. Vidler, H. Foster, D. LaCapra, H. White.

Sep 1995 - Jun 2001
 

University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, IL, US, MArch, Architecture

Professional degree in architecture; classes with S. Tigerman, P. Eisenman, C. Ingraham, M. Rakatansky, M. Linder.

Sep 1989 - Jun 1993
 

Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), Providence, RI, US, Masters, Art Education

Training in art education.

Sep 1983 - Jun 1984
 

School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, US, Bachelors, Painting

Painting.

Jan 1981 - Jun 1983
 

Areas of Specialization 
Architecture, Writing