Heather A. Hoeksema is an author of experience. With a background in the human sciences and extensive production in the cultural arts, she has developed a conceptual foundation for shaping architectural environments across measurements of time and place. This foundation integrates environments around and within the human body, at all scales of sustainable growth. She intuitively and intentionally integrates physiological health through an understanding of fabrication. Beginning with the journal based story, she cross connects ideologies of natural healing in multiple audio/visual mediums essentially grounded in the sensation of vibrating touch. Linguistics, music, and moving picture/sound are her current focus. As a professional architect she has produced and exhibited architecture internationally for well over two decades, and is currently focusing on composing temporal experience as a precursor process to the fabrication of human environments.
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Professional Story
Ms. Hoeksema is an architect of sound, light, and movement experience. She is a musician, author, and professional architect. With a background in the human sciences and extensive experience in the cultural arts, she has developed a conceptual foundation for shaping environmental experience. This foundation intuitively and intentionally integrates healthy living and healing environments with architecture through a physiological understanding of fabricated place. She is a licensed Professional Architect and has exhibited and produced work internationally.
She expanded her focus from the study of health at the human scale to the scale of the fabricated environment after receiving a scholarship to the University of Michigan School of Architecture + Urban Planning. Also having become an experimental artist and exhibitor of painting, textiles, and photographic media; she began to integrate her work in the arts with her scientific background.
During her younger years, she was an advanced student of calculus and chemistry. In 1993 she drafted a well researched essay on the effects of maternity ward environments on the birth experience, in contrast to home birth. In 1995, she was extricated from a team of 3 in her structures class, for directing the group analysis on the failure of the Tacoma Narrows bridge toward a humanist perspective about misdirection of 'civilized progress' and resulting consequences of industrial technology. These experiences, and many others, led to her innovative approach for shaping architecture as living environments; from the perspective of both science and philosophy.
The breadth of Ms. Hoeksema's experience includes roles on globally significant architectural developments such as the Music and Dance Theatre in Chicago's Millennium Park, with a specialty focus on the auditorium. She has worked with the likes of historically renowned architects including Eric Lloyd Wright as well as internationally significant firms. Through her private practice she has been commissioned nationally for articulating both interior cultural spaces and homes.
She has taught at a number of higher learning institutions including the School of the Art Institute of Chicago; in addition to modest public speaking and volunteer work with organizations like Rush University Medical Center and Free Arts for abused children. She chose to leave Harvard Graduate School of Design, after one semester of discovering its inherent contraditions between ethics and teaching. She is founder of the in progress entity Institute of Environmental Intellect which is poised to offer an authentic approach to education in addition to guidance for environmentally based research projects.
Her multi-disciplinary architecture lab, HHEAL, has been active for well over a decade. She has been involved in the practice and academia of Architecture, integrating healing and environments as Singular Architecture, for over 20 years. She had recently established Singular Architecture, a publishing entity of which the foundation is the 'Singular Architecture' book series. Singular Architecture is the foundation for HHEAL LLC productions.
She has completed the first book of the series 'Singular Butterfly: Verse 3/3' and distributed it in book stores nationally. She has also recently completed and published 'Flash Light: 9 Girls' Stories for Grown Ups' which is currently being distributed nationally as well. Her current production is a music album of her original singer/songwriter compositions titled 'Rode Show', which is also the title of her current tour of authored works.
Personal Story
Ms. Hoeksema was born in Phoenix in a Native American hospital. Her delivering physician was Dr. Childs. With her birth came a heart murmur. Yet she was blessed with Navajo caregivers, syncing her rhythms into place. She almost drowned in a pool during this first year of life. Her parents then moved to the mid west, bringing artifacts from the caregivers... an Indian doll and a papoose.
Raised by an orthopedic surgeon and gallery connoisseur, she learned early on to translate between objective thinking and subjective intuition. She often found herself resonating between the two, at times lingering in suspense. She played the piano for years, her most memorable moment a concert trio of Canon in D. Soon after, she had the fascinating experience singing with a choir in Carnegie Hall.
Her grandmothers cared for her grandfathers. Her mother's mother graciously left the eighth grade to care for her dying sister. Her father's mother kept boxes of diaries. Her mother's father started his own electric company after he was shot upon storming the beaches of Normandy. Her father's father was a navy man stationed in Japan, and a doctor of organic chemistry. They worked hard for what they had, and did their best to respect people and the environment around them. They had character.
Her ongoing balancing act between science and art eventually led to her pursuit of architecture, following studies in the human sciences. She often considered being a doctor, and chose a different path after sensing the inherent contradictions between technological medicine and well being. Later in time, this sentiment guided her interest in shaping healing environments. The only A+ she ever received on a report card was in ballet at the university, as a result of the paper she wrote for the class.
Living in many regions of the states, she often found herself observing more than producing for fear of being wasteful. Working, thinking, teaching... and writing, she montaged together experiences that led her to where all lost Souls eventually land. This land was the maze of Los Angeles. Ever since this landing she has been fabricating a labyrinth.
She had two dogs as she navigated across the country. The first one Tess, bit her mom on the head. The second, Dozer, chewed up her Indian doll. Her childhood dog Brandy had been her best friend. She thinks patriarchal religion, unbridled, will mathematically lead to human extinction. Nature is God, existing in a composing continuum within and between two resonant beings.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS /
Published/ 'Rode Show: A Prelude' / Author x Music Heather Hoeksema
Published/ 'Singular Butterfly : Verse 3/3' / Author Heather Hoeksema
Published/ 'Flash Light :9 Girls' Stories for Grown Ups' / H Hoeksema
Published/ 'Flash Light :9 Girls' Stories... ' Audio Stories / H Hoeksema
In Progress/ 'Resonant Invisible: Verse 2/2' / Author Heather Hoeksema
In Progress/ 'Evolutionary Echo: Verse 1/1' / Author Heather Hoeksema
In Progress/ 'Rhythmic Heartbeat: Verse 4/4' / Author Heather Hoeksema
In Progress/ 'Metabolic Breath: Verse 8/6' / Author Heather Hoeksema
RECENT EVENTS / 2017 / 2018/
Nashville TN / 'Rode Show' Album Launch Event/ Brick Theater
Nashville TN / 'Rode Show' micro music set/ Leiper's Fork
Nashville TN / 'Rode Show' micro music set/ Franklin
Nashville TN / 'Rode Show' micro music set/ Leiper's Fork
Nashville TN / 'Rode Show' micro music set/ Franklin
Nashville TN / 'Rode Show' micro music set/ Leiper's Fork
Nashville TN / 'Rode Show' micro music set/ Franklin
Nashville TN / 'Rode Show' micro music set/ Leiper's Fork
Telluride CO / Radio Interview KOTO NPR
Pagosa Springs CO /Radio Interview KWUF
Nashville TN / 'Rode Show' micro music set/ Leiper's Fork
Nashville TN / 'Rode Show' micro music set/ Franklin
New Orleans LA / 'Singular Butterfly' book signing/ Octavia
Taos NM / 'Flash Light' book reading + signing/ SOMOS
Taos NM / 'Rode Show' Radio live music/ True Taos
Santa Fe NM / 'Singular Butterfly' book signing/ OPCIT
Santa Fe NM / 'Rode Show' Interview/ Santa Fe New Mexican
Park City UT / 'Flash Light' Reading + Signing / Dolly's
Park City UT / 'Rode Show' Radio Interview / KTMP
Telluride CO / 'Singular Butterfly' Book Talk/ Telluride Arts District
Telluride CO / 'Rode Show' Live Music Set / Sheridan Historic Bar
Telluride CO / 'Rode Show' Live Music Set / The Phoenix
Telluride CO / 'Rode Show' Radio Interview/ KOTO NPR
Telluride CO / 'Rode Show' Interview/ Telluride Daily Planet
Aspen CO / 'Singular Butterfly' Signing / Explore Books
Aspen CO / 'Rode Show' Interview + Live Music / NPR
Aspen CO / ''Rode Show' Live Music Set / Aspen hotel
Taos NM / 'Singular Butterfly' Talk / Taos Literary Society
Taos NM / 'Rode Show' Interview + Music / One True Radio
Moab UT / 'Rode Show' Live Music Set / Peace Three
Moab UT / 'Flash Light' Reading / Community Arts
Moab UT / 'Rode Show' Newspaper Interview / Sun Times
Aspen CO / 'Singular Butterfly' Talk / Pitkin Library
Park City UT / 'Singular Butterfly' Signing / Dolly's
Park City UT / 'Rode Show' Interview + Live Music / NPR
Park City UT / 'Singular Butterfly' Interview / Park Record
Sun Valley ID / 'Flash Light' Story Reading/ Hailey Library
Sun Valley ID / 'Rode Show' Live Music Set / Ketchum hotel
Sun Valley ID / 'Singular Butterfly' Interview / Mountain Express
Sun Valley ID / 'Singular Butterfly' Talk / Ketchum Library
Los Angeles CA / 'Singular Butterfly' Signing / Journey Books
Los Angeles CA / 'Rode Show' live music set / The Market
LICENSURE / ACADEMICS /
Professional Architect / California, Idaho, Colorado, et al
LEED Accredited Professional / National Licensure
University of Southern California / Teaching
School of the Art Institute of Chicago / Teaching
Southern California Institute of Architecture / Assistant Teaching
Southern California Institute of Architecture / Architecture Critic
Woodbury University Architecture Program / Architecture Critic
University of Virginia Grad School of Arch / Assistant Teaching
Yoga Teaching Accreditation / Level One Certification
Southern California Institute of Architecture / Master of Architecture
Southern California Institute of Architecture / Advanced Standing
University of Virginia Grad School of Architecture / Master Studies
University of Michigan Architecture / Scholarship Award
University of Michigan / Liberal Arts Scholarship, Honor Roll
Harvard Graduate School of Architecture / Master Studies
University of Virginia School of Architecture / Master Studies
University of Michigan Architecture / Bachelor of Science in Arch
University of Michigan / Liberal Arts Studies
Rush University Medical Center / Volunteer Work
Children's Hands on Art Museum / Volunteer Work
Free Arts for Abused Children / Volunteer Work
Singers Choir / Canegie Hall Performance, et al
EXHIBITS / NEWS / PUBLICATION /
Los Angeles CA/ 'Intimate Topography' exhibit / HHEAL production
Los Angeles CA / 'Pedestrian LA' exhibit / HHEAL production
Los Angeles CA / 'Mythical Icons' exhibit / HHEAL production
Los Angeles CA / 'Dissectual LA' exhibit / HHEAL production
Los Angeles CA / 'Paradox + Pair of Sox' exhibit / HHEAL production
Los Angeles CA / 'Spin Cycle' exhibit / HHEAL production
Los Angeles CA / 'Personal Space' exhibit / HHEAL production
'Environmental Artist's Exhibit: Heather Hoeksema' / Epoch Times
Los Angeles CA / 'Urban Fabrication' exhibited / H Hoeksema
Egremont ENG / 'Aurelii Theatre' exhibited / HHoeksema
Chicago IL / '4D Egg Bridge' exhibited / Art Institute / H Hoeksema
Pittsburgh PA / 'Loop Stitch Bridge' exhibited / H Hoeksema
Grand Haven MI / 'Museum Depot Transformation' / H Hoeksema
Muskegon MI / 'Personal Architecture' museum talk / H Hoeksema
Chicago IL / 'Origami Collection' textile fabrication / H Hoeksema
Los Angeles CA / 'Origami Collection' textile fabric / H Hoeksema
New York NY / 'Origami Collection' textile acquisition / H Hoeksema
Los Angeles CA / Seasonal Textile acquisitions / H Hoeksema
Chicago IL / 'Chicago Weave' painting acquisition / H Hoeksema
Chicago IL / 'Music + Dance Theatre' news article / Chicago Social
New York NY / 'Music + Dance Theatre' news / New York Times
Los Angeles CA / 'Pedestrian LA' / Hoeksema / Pasdena Museum
Los Angeles CA / 'Flux Flex' exhibited / SCIArc / H Hoeksema
Los Angeles CA / 'Rietveld Chair exhibit / SCIArc / H Hoeksema
International / 'ArtShare Loft' fabricated architecture / H Hoeksema
Lake MI / 'Horizon' painting acquisition / artist H Hoeksema
Lake MI / 'Cave' painting acquisition / artist H Hoeksema
National / Custom Jewelry Fabrication acquisitioned / H Hoeksema
Kansas City MO / Kauf Foundation exhibit / H Hoeksema + KMW
Ann Arbor MI / 'Black Box Theater' published / H Hoeksema
Ann Arbor MI / 'Black Box Theater' exhibited / H Hoeksema
Ann Arbor MI / 'Archival Library' exhibited / H Hoeksema
PROJECT LIST
'Multiplicity' / Multifamily housing concept / Los Angeles CA
'Alla House' / Single family housing renovation / Los Angeles CA
'Malibu Surf Motel' / Hospitality concept / Malibu CA
'Broad Beach Spa Bath' / Single family renov concepts / Malibu CA
'Interactive Lobby' / Commercial Interior Renov / Los Angeles CA
'Fine Art Facade' / Commercial Facade Renov / Lake MI
'Olympic Sanctuary' / Athletic area fabric enclosure concept / Greece
'Woven Nest House' / Single family housing concept /
'Sunset Amphitheatre' / Landscape concept / Santa Monica CA
'Cafe Coffee' / Commercial Interiors concept / Los Angeles CA
'Lakers Media House' /Commercial Interior concept/ Los Angeles CA
'Labyrinth Gallerie' / Environmental Art Installation concept /
'Aperture House' / Ocean Front House concept /
'Four Winds Housing' / Mulifamily Housing / Los Angeles CA
'Eco Stories Gallery' / Commercial Interior Renov / Lake MI
'Santa Monica Restoration' / Single Family renov / Santa Monica CA
'Village for Peace' / Sustainable Village concept / Oro INDIA
'Healing Arts Reception' / Commercial Int Renov / Santa Monica CA
'Organic Kitchen' / Single Family Renov concept / Lake MI
'Musical Tudor' / Single Family Addition + Renov / Hollywood CA
'Topanga Media Room' / Single Family Renov consult / Topanga CA
'Malibu Ocean Front' /Single Family Renov + Add consult/ Malibu CA
'Architect's House' / Single Family Custom Renovation / Lake MI
'Inside Out Pool House' / Landscape + Pool House concept/ Lake MI
'London Foot Bridge' / Pedestrian Bridge conept / London ENG
'Sky Bridge House' / Single Family Renov + Add / Summit CO
'Mountain Bed + Breakfast' / Commercial Addition / Summit CO
'Aurelii Pavilion' / Theatre Pavilion concept / Egremont ENG
'Zon Space Yurt' / Mobile Housing fabrication concept /
'Ski Slope Landing' / Landscape + Deck / Summit CO
'Mountain House Fine Art' / Fine Art acquisition + install/ Summit CO
'Children's Arts Camp' / Addition + Renovation / Lake MI
'Photo Loft' / Live Work Interior Residential Renov / Grand Rapids MI
'Chicago Row House' / Interior Custom Architecture / Chicago IL
'Loop Stitch Bridge' / Pedestrian Bridge concept / Pittsburg PA
'Lakefront Condominiums' / Architectural Renderings / Lake MI
'Organic Roofscapes' / Green Roof composition concepts / Lake MI
'Look Out Pavilion' / Lake Front Growing Pavilion concept / Lake MI
'Loft Greenhouse' / Greenhouse Addition concept / Lake MI
'Curatorial Gallery' / Commercial Gallery Architecture / Lake MI
'Mobile House Project' / Airstream Architecture Restoration /
'Fabric Space Frames' / Interior Gallery Fabrications / Chicago IL
'Spa Bath' / Bathroom Renovation concept / Lake MI
'Reitveld Chair' / Custom Furniture fabrication / Los Angeles CA
'Domestic Rocker' / Custom Furniture Architectural fabrication
'Flux Flex Interactive' / Interactive Arch Installation / Los Angeles CA
'Museum Mall Hybrid' / Urban Planning concept / Eagle CA
'Artshare Artist Loft' / Interior Fabrication + Install / Los Angeles CA
'Rosario Bridge' / Bridge Fabrication concept / Rosario Argentina
'Chicago Music + Dance Theatre' / Auditorium Arch Assit/ Chicago IL
'Lee Residence' / Custom Residential Interiors / Chicago IL
'Oregon Fine Art Museum' / Addition + Renov Assist / Eugene OR
'Yale University Housing' / Custom Interiors Assist/ New Haven CN
'Ann Arbor Charter School' / Interior Renov Assist / Ann Arbor MI
'University of Michigan Hospitals' / Int Renov Assist / Ann Arbor MI
'Ann Arbor Animal Clinic' / Interior Renov Assit / Ann Arbor MI
/Ann Arbor Church' / Interior Renov Assist / Ann Arbor MI
"Bethel Pentacostal Housing'/ Interior Renov Assist/Grand Rapids MI
'Sleepy Hollow Resort' / Energy Feasibility Study / Lake MI
'Interactive Recreation' / Recreational Center concept / Boston MA
'Kauffman Foundation' / Exterior, Lanscape, Interior Assist / KC MO
'Suffolk County Courthouse' / Interior + Detailing Assist / Boston MA
'Winston Strawn Law' / Interiors + Furniture Assist / New York NY
'Nature Housing' / Campus Planning concept / University of Virginia
'Archival Library' / University Interior Arch concept / Ann Arbor MI
'Black Box Theatre' / Theatre Arch + Planning concept /Ann Arbor MI
'Biokinetic Drawing Sticks' / Environmental Installation/ Ann Arbor MI
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