Related to [[The Garden of Eden Creation Kit (GECK)]] From the book *The World as an Architectural Project*, ed. Hashim Sarkis: "*I cannot do buildings without building a new repertoire of characters of stories of language, and it's all parallel. It's not just building per se. It is building worlds*" , Hejduk explains to the poet David Shapiro. In his Masque projects, architecture no longer consists of designing unique, self sufficient buildings. Designs operate, rather, as the characters in a theatrical play. Even if they can exist individually, the final sense of the pieces results from their grouping together to create a particular ensemble. Every piece references and contains a broader whole, a [[World]] . ![[Victims-John-Hejduk-13.jpg]] *John Hejduk, Victims, 1984* The term "world" here is metaphorical. Its meaning is similar to the one Nelson Goodman uses in Ways of [[Worldmaking]]: a world is a formal structure governed by an internally consistent logic. In this sense Hejduk's definition of a multitude of architectural characters and of a cohesive formal system is a poetic act, which seeks to have an impact upon the physical world, but which disdains designing the planet as such. His position goes against modernity's globalizing, panoramic view and any pretensions of imposing a single form of universality. Building worlds in this sense is a pluralistic project, seeking to substitute modernity's global ambitions for a multitude of distinct - and yet related - singularities. The Masques as generated through the Theory of Accumulation, they are always recombinations of predetermined elements. Hejduk adds symbolism which modernity tried to exclude, by treating the Masques as literary artifacts. The form of each piece alludes to its role and meaning, which the architect explains with texts about the characteristics of each architectural "object", of the "subject" that inhabits it, and of the events that take place in it. The result is a symbolic and figurative formal [[system]], an inversion of modernity's abstraction. ![[Victims-John-Hejduk-09.jpg]] *John Hejduk, Victims, 1984* ![[Victims-John-Hejduk-12.jpg]] *John Hejduk, Victims 1984 - Keeper of the Records – Record Hall* ![[Victims-John-Hejduk-11.jpg]] *John Hejduk, Victims 1984 - Crochet Lady – Crochet Chair / Shade Woman – Shades of Text / Identity Card Man – Identity Card Unit* links: https://socks-studio.com/2015/11/01/a-growing-incremental-place-incremental-time-victims-a-project-by-john-hejduk-1984/