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]
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
Cheney, Liana De Girolami; Hendrix, John Shannon, eds. (2002). Neoplatonism and the Arts (Studies in Art History). Lewiston, N.Y.:
Edwin Mellen.
ISBN978-0-773469-85-3.
Hendrix, John Shannon (2002). The Relation between Architectural Forms and Philosophical Structures in the Work of Francesco Borromini in Seventeenth-Century Rome. Lewiston:
Edwin Mellen.
ISBN978-0-773469-95-2.
Hendrix, John Shannon (2003). Architectural Forms and Philosophical Structures. New York:
Peter Lang.
ISBN978-0-820467-26-9.
Cheney, Liana De Girolami; Hendrix, John Shannon, eds. (2004). Neoplatonic Aesthetics: Music, Literature, and the Visual Arts. New York:
Peter Lang.
ISBN978-0-820471-11-2.
Hendrix, John Shannon (2004). Platonic Architectonics: Platonic Philosophies and the Visual Arts. New York:
Peter Lang.
ISBN978-0-820471-10-5.
Hendrix, John Shannon (2005). Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Spirit: From Plotinus to Schelling and Hegel. New York:
Peter Lang.
ISBN978-0-820476-32-2.
Hendrix, John Shannon (2006). Architecture and Psychoanalysis: Peter Eisenman and Jacques Lacan. New York:
Peter Lang.
ISBN978-0-820481-71-5.
Hendrix, John Shannon (2010). Robert Grosseteste: Philosophy of Intellect and Vision. Sankt Augustin: Academia Verlag.
ISBN978-3-896655-24-0.
Hendrix, John Shannon; Carman, Charles H., eds. (2010). Renaissance Theories of Vision (Visual Culture in Early Modernity). Farnham, Surrey:
Ashgate Publishing.
ISBN978-1-409400-24-0.
Hendrix, John Shannon (2011). Architecture as Cosmology: Lincoln Cathedral and English Gothic Architecture. New York:
Peter Lang.
ISBN978-1-433113-16-1.
Emmons, Paul; Hendrix, John Shannon; Lomholt, Jane, eds. (2012). The Cultural Role of Architecture: Contemporary and Historical Perspectives. Abingdon, Oxon:
Routledge.
ISBN978-0-415783-41-5.
Hendrix, John Shannon (2013). The Splendor of English Gothic Architecture. London: Parkstone.
ASINB016XN18EO.
Hendrix, John Shannon (2014). The Contradiction between Form and Function in Architecture. Abingdon, Oxon:
Routledge.
ISBN978-0-415639-14-9.
Temple, Nicholas; Hendrix, John Shannon; Frost, Christian, eds. (2014). Bishop Robert Grosseteste and Lincoln Cathedral: Tracing Relationships between Medieval Concepts of Order and Built Form. Farnham, Surrey:
Ashgate Publishing.
ISBN978-1-472412-75-1.
^Hendrix, John Shannon (2002). "Psychoanalysis and Identity in Architecture". In Bandyopadhyay, Soumyen; Montiel, Guillermo Garma (eds.). The Territories of Identity: Architecture in the Age of Evolving Globalization. Abingdon, Oxon:
Routledge.
ISBN978-0-415622-88-2.