About:

Award-winning architect John Johansen is a native New Yorker. In 1942 he graduated from the Harvard GSD with his masters in architecture. He worked for Marcel Breuer and then for the National Housing Agency in Washington before joining Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill in New York. In 1948 he established his own practice in New Canaan, Connecticut designing many houses through the 1960s at which point he designed the United States Embassy in Ireland. The firm designed in the "new brutalism" style and did a number of libraries, academic buildings, and theaters among other projects. Locally he designed an apartment building on Roosevelt Island. Johansen has taught at Yale, Columbia, Pratt and in other architecture programs. Retired from practice and now in his vigorous ninth decade, he researches and writes on nonotechnology and futuristic architecture authoring, in 2002, Nanoarchitecture: A New Species of Architecture.

Books:

Johansen, John MacLane. John M. Johansen: a life in the continuum of modern architecture .  L'ARCA EDIZIONI, 1995.  NA737.J58 A2 1995.

______________________. Nanoarchitecture: a new species of architecture. Princeton Architectural Press, 2002. NA737 .J58 A4 2002.  

____________. "Smog Monster: Environmental Notes from the Pac-Rim." In ECO-TEC : architecture of the in-between. Amerigo Marras, editor. Princeton Architectural Press, 1999.   NA2542.35 .E34 1999.

"The Eyeworks Store." In Jodidio, Philip. Architecture now!  vol 2. Taschen, 2001-.  Arch Ref NA680 .J616 2001

"Tomihiro Hoshino Museum, Azuma-Mura, Gunma, Japan." In Jodidio, Philip. Architecture now!  vol 3. Taschen, 2001-.  Arch Ref NA680 .J616 2001.
________________________________________________________________________ Books listed above are available in the CCNY Architecture Library unless otherwise noted.

Articles: (Selected from 1997- 2006)                 

"SITE: identity in density (Master Architect Series VII), edited by Steve Womersley" in Landscape architecture,, 2006 Feb., v.96, n.2, p.100.

"Best thing going [Best Products showrooms]." McCown, James. In Metropolis, 2003 Apr., v.22, n.8, p.[98]-99.

"Finding the middle ground: landscape architects propose diversity over dominance for the renovation of the World Trade Center site."  Hammatt, Heather. In Landscape architecture, 2002 Sept., v.92, n.9, p.26,28.

"SITE's 'Ghost Parking Lot' threatened." Brake, Alan G. In Architecture, 2002 Apr., v.91, n.43, p.25.

"Site - James Wines: USA Pavilion, Expo 2000, Hannover, Germany." In Lotus International, 2000, n.106, p.78-80.

"A Doha nel Qatar = For a Museum of Islamic Arts [Doha, Qatar]." In Arca, 1998 July-Aug., n.128, p.10-17.

"Mirage." In Landscape architecture , 1998 May, v.88, n.5, p.[80]-89,109,111.

"Une pensée environnementale." In Architecture d'aujourd'hui , 1998 n.318, p.58-59.

"Site survey [interview]." In Architecture , 1998 May, v.87, n.5, p.[77,79,81]-82,84-85].

"Passages: the fusion of architecture and landscape in the recent work of SITE" in Architectural design , 1997 Jan.-Feb., v.67, n.1-2, p.32-37.                  _______________________________________________________________________ Articles listed above are available in the CCNY Architecture Library unless otherwise noted.
 

Web Sites:

Digital Imaging Project.   www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/johansen/johansen.html
Many images of Johansen's Goddard Library in Worcester, Mass. and his Mummer's Theater in Oklahoma City.