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John M. Johansen architectural drawings and papers, 1939-2007

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John Maclane Johansen received his architecture degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Design in 1942 where he studied under Walter Gropius. He worked under Marcel Breuer and at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill before opening his own private office in New Canaan, Connecticut, where he became known as one of the Harvard Five. He later formed a partnership with Ashok Bhavnani. Major projects include the Oklahoma (Mummers) Theater in Oklahoma City; the Goddard Library at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts; the Charles Center Theater Building (Mechanic Theater) in Baltimore, the United States Embassy in Dublin, Ireland, and the Island House and Rivercross apartments on Roosevelt Island, which he completed with Bhavnani. Johansen also designed numerous private residences in Connecticut and New York, and a series of conceptual projects such as the Leapfrog City project and the "Moon Module" house. The collection largely documents Johansen's professional career, and includes original and reprographic architectural drawings, photographs, negatives, professional papers, publications, reference files, and one scale model.

At a Glance

Bib ID 6161903 View CLIO record
Creator(s) Johansen, John MacLane, 1916-2012; Harvard Five
Title John M. Johansen architectural drawings and papers, 1939-2007
Physical Description 1,423 drawings; 17 print boxes; 3 document boxes; 1 item (architectural model)
Language(s) English .
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This collection is available for use by appointment in the Department of Drawings & Archives, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, Columbia University. For further information and to make an appointment, please email avery-drawings@library.columbia.edu.

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The collection includes original and reprographic architectural drawings, photographs, negatives, professional papers, publications, reference files, and a scale model. Covering Johansen's body of work extensively, the documents in this collection can be divided into two major groups: firstly, documentation of architectural projects by his office, and, secondly, manuscripts and published essays written by him.

  • Series I: Project Records, 1939-2007

    This series compiles architectural projects designed by John Johansen Associates and Johansen & Bhavnani. It includes all of his major works, such as the Mummers Theater, the Goddard Library, the L. Frances Smith Elementary School, the Mechanic Theater, the Staten Island Community College, Island House apartments in Roosevelt Island, and the United States Embassy in Dublin. The series also covers many residential projects and conceptual works designed by Johansen across time. The types of documents in this series are primarily original and reprographic drawings, photographs, transparencies, negatives, and clippings. The folders are ordered alphabetically.

  • Series II: Professional Papers, 1955-2001

    This series primarily consists of Johansen's essays--drafts and published versions, for magazines and talks--as well as manuscripts for books, including for his monograph that was later published as A Life in the Continuum of Modern Architecture (1995). This series also includes various paper records, including Johansen's C.V., letters from John F. Kennedy and Marshall McLuhan, his sketchbook, and certificates of awards from different institutions.

  • Series III: Office Records, 1952-1995

    This series contains various types of office-related documents. It includes a collection of book excerpts and magazines that published Johansen's projects, press kits, clippings, project descriptions, and exhibition panels.

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Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library

Restrictions on Access

This collection is available for use by appointment in the Department of Drawings & Archives, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, Columbia University. For further information and to make an appointment, please email avery-drawings@library.columbia.edu.

Preferred Citation

John M. Johansen architectural drawings and papers, Dept. of Drawings & Archives, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Source of acquisition--Gifts from John MacLane Johansen. Accession number--1998.008, 1998.011, 2001.010, 2009.010.

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Columbia University Libraries, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library

Processing Information

This collection was re-processed by Robin Hartanto Honggare (Graduate Intern) in 2018-2019 under the supervision of Shelley Hayreh, Avery Archivist.

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Bhavnani, Ashok, 1933-2015 Portal CLIO ArchiveGRID
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History / Biographical Note

Biographical / Historical

Born in New York City in 1916, Johnansen received a master's degree in architecture from the Harvard Graduate School of Design in 1942, where he studied under Walter Gropius. He worked under Marcel Breuer and for the National Housing Agency in Washington, D.C., before joining the New York office of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. Johansen opened his own private office in New Canaan, Connecticut, in 1948, and became known as one of the Harvard Five. In 1965, he formed a partnership with Ashok Bhavnani, and John Johansen Associates was later renamed as Johansen & Bhavnani. His major projects included the Oklahoma (Mummers) Theater in Oklahoma City, Okla.; the Goddard Library at Clark University in Worcester, Mass.; the L. Frances Smith Elementary School in Columbus, Indiana; Clowes Memorial Hall at Butler University in Indianapolis, Ind.; the Charles Center Theater Building (Mechanic Theater) in Baltimore, Md.; Staten Island Community College in Staten Island, N.Y.; the United States Embassy in Dublin, Ireland, and the Island House and Rivercross apartments on Roosevelt Island, which he completed with Bhavnani. Johansen also designed numerous private residences in Connecticut and New York state, as well as a series of conceptual projects, including Leapfrog City, "Bubble Cluster", Mag-Lev Theater, and "Moon Module" house. John M. Johansen died in 2012.

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Series I: Project Records, 1939-2007

This series compiles architectural projects designed by John Johansen Associates and Johansen & Bhavnani. It includes all of his major works, such as the Mummers Theater, the Goddard Library, the L. Frances Smith Elementary School, the Mechanic Theater, the Staten Island Community College, Island House apartments in Roosevelt Island, and the United States Embassy in Dublin. The series also covers many residential projects and conceptual works designed by Johansen across time. The types of documents in this series are primarily original and reprographic drawings, photographs, transparencies, negatives, and clippings. The folders are ordered alphabetically.


Box 19 Folder 1 Airport Concepts, undated

Drawings: 10 items; photostat of drawing


Box 13 Folder 1 Apartment Gardens, undated

Drawings: 52 items; photostats of drawings


Box 18 Folder 1 Apartments on Stauks Lo, 2005

Drawings: 3 items; photostats of drawings


Box 13 Folder 2 Barlow House (New Canaan, CT), 1950

Photostat of drawing: 1 item


Box 4 Folder 1 Barna House (Armonk, NY), 1995

photographs: 9 items; paper records including correspondence


Roll A109.02 Barna Guest House (Bedford, NY), 1982

Drawings: 15 items


Box 1 Folder 1 Boston Arts Festival Theater (Boston, MA), undated

Negative of rendering: 1 item


Box 4 Folder 2 Bridgeport Museum of Art, Science and Industry (Bridgeport, CT), 1961, undated

photographs: 15; contact sheets; paper records including printed drawings, clippings, and publications


Box 19 Folder 2 Bridgeport Museum of Art, Science and Industry (Bridgeport, CT), 1954-1960

Photostats of drawings: 6 items


Box 4 Folder 3 Campbell House (New Canaan, CT), undated

photographs: 6; printed drawing


Box 1 Folder 2 Central Queens YM-YWHA (Forest Hills, NY), 1980

Clippings


Box 4 Folder 4 Charles Center Office Building (Baltimore, MD), undated

Photographs: 15 items; contact sheets; paper records including printed drawings and proposals


Box 13 Folder 3 Charles Center Office Building (Baltimore, MD), undated

Drawings: 16 items; photostats of drawings; project description


Box 4 Folder 5 Charles Ives Center, 1977

Photostat transparency


Box 19 Folder 3 Chryselis Theater Complex, undated

Drawings: 8 items; copy of drawing


Box 19 Folder 4 City Concepts, undated

Drawings: 4 items


Box 4 Folder 6 Clip-on Library, undated

Model photograph: 3 items; paper records including printed drawings and sketches


Box 19 Folder 5 Cloud Chapel, undated

Photostats of drawings


Box 4 Folder 7 Clowes Hall (Indianapolis, IN), 1960-1964, undated

photographs: 38 items; transparency: 1 item; photostat transparencies; paper records including printed drawings and clippings


Roll A109.04 Clowes Hall (Indianapolis, IN), 1960

Drawings: 23 items


Drawer 074 Folder 2 Clowes Memorial Opera House, Butler University (Indianapolis, IN), undated, 3 photographs

Mounted photographs on board: 3


Box 13 Folder 4 Coggeshall House (Schenectady, NY), 1949

Photostats of drawings: 2 items


Box 19 Folder 6 Corporation Tower, 1986-1989

Drawings: 13 items; photostats of drawings


Box 19 Folder 7 Cosmic of Web Channel, undated

Drawings: 4 items; copies of drawings


Box 1 Folder 3 Cultural Center (Wallingford, CT), 1956, undated

Photographs: 4 item; copies of drawings


Box 1 Folder 4 Dickenson House (New Canaan, CT), undated

Photograph: 1 item


Box 13 Folder 5 Dixwell Church (New Haven, CT), 1968-1969

Photographs: 10 items; transparency: 1 item; paper records including correspondence, memos, photostats of drawings


Roll A109.15 Dixwell Church (New Haven, CT), 1968-1969

Drawings: 18 items


Box 5 Folder 1 Dixwell School (New Haven, CT), [1964-1972]

Photographs: 41 items; negatives: 94 items; paper records including clippings, printed drawings, and publications


Box 13 Folder 6 Dunham House (New Canaan, CT), 1952, undated

Photostats of drawings and clippings


Box 13 Folder 7 Earth Chapel, 2002

Drawings: 3 items; copies of drawings


Box 18 Folder 2 East Elementary School (Torrington, NY), 1970

Drawings: 3 items


Box 1 Folder 5 Ellsworth House (Salisbury, CT), [1972-1976]

Photographs: 4 items; transparencies: 7 items; photostat transparencies: 3 items; contact sheets; paper records including clippings, printed drawings and sketches


Roll A57A.11 Ellsworth House (Salisbury, CT), 1961

Drawings: 30 items


Box 5 Folder 2 FDR Competition Entry (Washington, DC), 1961, undated

Photograph: 1 item; photostat transparency; paper records including printed drawings and clippings


Box 5 Folder 3 Florence Virtue Housing (New Haven, CT), 1965

Photographs: 13 items; transparency: 1 item; photostat transparencies; paper records including printed drawings and sketches, publications, and clippings


Box 1 Folder 6 Foster Residence (Bernardsville, NJ), undated

Photographs: 2 items


Box 5 Folder 4-5 Foster & Company (Hanover Park, NJ), undated

Photographs: 46 items; negatives: 19 items; drawing: 1 item; contact sheets; paper records including job description and printed drawings


Roll A111.09 Foster & Company (Hanover Park, NJ), 1970

Drawings: 24 items


Box 1 Folder 7-8 Goddard Library (Worchester, MA), 1964-1969

Photographs:39 items; negatives: 42 items; contact sheets; photostats of drawings; publication


Box 14 Folder 1-3 Goddard Library (Worchester, MA), 1964-1980

Photographs:71 items; photostats of drawings; paper records including clippings


Roll A109.14 Goddard Library (Worchester, MA), 1966-1967

Drawings: 16 items


Roll A109.13 Goddard Library (Worchester, MA), 1966-1967

Drawings: 25 items


Roll A109.11 Goddard Library (Worchester, MA), 1966-1967

Drawings: 18 items


Roll A109.12 Goddard Library (Worchester, MA), 1966-1967

Drawings: 26 items


Roll A103.11 Goddard Library (Worchester, MA), 1966

Drawings: 7 items


Box 13 Folder 8 Goode House, 1953

Photostat of drawing: 1 item


Box 5 Folder 6 Goodyear House (Darien, CT), 1953, 1955, undated

Photographs: 10 items; architectural drawing: 1 item; Dr. & Mrs. Stephen Goodyear residence


Roll A103.09 Goodyear House

Drawings: 27 items


Box 13 Folder 9 Goodyear House #2 (Santa Fe, NM), 1974

Photostats of drawings: 6 items


Box 1 Folder 9 Goldberg House (Greenwich, CT), undated

Newspaper clipping


Box 19 Folder 8 Guest House (Fishers Island, NY), 1969

Photostats of drawings: 7 items


Roll A111.10 Guest House (Fishers Island, NY), 1970

Drawings: 15 items


Roll A57A.14 Hempstead Performing Arts Center Long Island, NY), 1982

Drawings: 11 items


Box 1 Folder 10 Helene W. Grant Elementary School (New Haven, CT), [1962]

Photograph: 1 item; photostat transparency; paper records including printed drawings and sketches


Box 1 Folder 11 Ingotto Competition Entry (Turino, Italy), 1986

Photostat transparencies: 7 items


Roll A99.10 Ingotto Competition Entry (Turino, Italy), 1986

Drawings: 16 items


Box 13 Folder 10 Johansen House I (New Canaan, CT), 1949-1951

Photograph: 1 item; photostat of drawing: 1 item; copy of photograph


Box 6 Folder 1 Johansen House II "Rigged House" (Stanfordville, NY), 1974

Photographs: 20 items; negatives: 18 items; transparencies: 10 items; slide: 1 item; paper records including printed drawings and clippings


Box 19 Folder 9 Johansen House II "Rigged House" (Stanfordville, NY), 1970-1972

Drawings: 2 items; photostat of drawing


Roll A57A.10 Johansen House II "Rigged House" (Stanfordville, NY), 1972-1975

Drawings: 27 items


Roll A57A.10 Johansen House II "Rigged House" (Stanfordville, NY), 1972-1975

Drawings: 9 items


Roll A103.9 Johansen House II "Rigged House" (Stanfordville, NY), 1972-1975

Drawings: 15 items


Box 13 Folder 11 Johnson Synagogue, undated

Photograph: 1 item


Roll A109.01 Kindergarten, New Town Court, Project for Harvard University (Cambridge, MA), 1939

Drawings: 2 items


Box 13 Folder 12 Kirkbride House (New Canaan, CT), 1950

Photostat of drawing: 1 item


Box 5 Folder 2 KQED TV Station (San Francisco, CA), 1969, undated

Photographs: 19 items; slides: 10 items; paper records including publications and prints of drawings


Box 18 Folder 3 Labyrinth of Space and Time, 1987

Drawing: 1 item; copy of drawing


Box 13 Folder 13 Lake Dweller's House, 1954

Photographs: 4 items


Box 1 Folder 12 Leapfrog Housing, 1966-1968

Paper records including correspondence, proposals, notes, printed drawings, and clippings regarding a method of phased building replacement without relocation


Box 13 Folder 14 Leapfrog Housing, 1966-1968

Copies and photostats of drawings


Roll A99.16 Leapfrog Housing

Drawings: 7 items


Roll A103.10 Library and Resource Center (Greenwich, CT), 1979

Drawings: 6 items


Roll A103.11 Library

Drawings: 6 items


Box 13 Folder 15 Ludington House (New Canaan, CT), 1949

Photostat of drawing: 1 item


Box 13 Folder 16 Luxury Resort Hotel, 1980

Model photographs: 7 items; negatives: 2 items; photostats of drawings: 3 items; project description


Drawer 378 Luxury Resort Hotel

Repro: 1 items


Box 6 Folder 3-4 L. Frances Smith School (Columbus, IN), 1968-1970, undated

Photographs: 73 items; drawing: 1 item; transparencies: 4 items; photostats; contact sheets; paper records including printed drawings, clippings, and project descriptions


Roll A111.01 L. Frances Smith School (Columbus, IN), 1968

Drawings: 18 items


Roll A109.16 L. Frances Smith School (Columbus, IN), 1968

Drawings: 18 items


Roll A111.02 L. Frances Smith School (Columbus, IN), 1968

Drawings: 19 items


Roll A111.03 L. Frances Smith School (Columbus, IN), 1968

Drawings: 30 items


Roll A111.04 L. Frances Smith School (Columbus, IN), 1968

Drawings: 20 items


Box 7 Folder 1-2 Litchfield Jr. High School (Litchfield, CT), 1967-1969, undated

Photographs: 77 items; negatives: 46 items; transparencies: 2 items; contact sheets; paper records including clippings and printed drawings


Box 19 Folder 10 Masonic Temple (Norwalk, CT), undated

Photostats of drawings: 8 items; clipping


Box 18 Folder 4 Master Sheet Layout Patern, undated

Tracing paper: 1 sheet


Box 13 Folder 17 Maglev Theater Project, 1991, undated

Photographs: 7 items; negatives: 4 items; manuscript; sketches; paper records including copies of drawings

Maglev Theater Project, 1990

Scale model


Box 15 Folder 1 McNiff House (Stockbridge, MA), 1954-1958

Photographs: 14 items; photostats of drawings; clippings


Box 19 Folder 11 Miscellaneous Projects, 1954-1961

Photostats of drawings of various projects including the Theater World


Drawer 090 Miscellaneous, large photostats

NYC Hotel Proposal, Johansen Residence II, etc.


Box 15 Folder 2 MNT Bridge, 2002-2003

Drawings: 15 items; photographs and copies of sketches


Box 7 Folder 3 Moon Module House, undated

Copies of drawings


Box 18 Folder 5 Morphable House, 1998-2002

Drawings: 17 items; copies of drawings


Box 19 Folder 12 Morphable Live/Work Apartment, 2002-2005

Drawings: 21 items


Box 15 Folder 3 Morphable Museum, 2002

Drawings: 14 items


Box 7 Folder 4-5 Morris Mechanic Theater (Baltimore, MD), 1967-1969, undated

Photographs: 43 items; drawings: 3 items; paper records including printed drawings, clippings, and project description


Roll A109.09 Morris Mechanic Theater (Baltimore, MD), 1966

Drawings: 19 items


Roll A109.10 Morris Mechanic Theater (Baltimore, MD), 1966

Drawings: 19 items


Roll A109.08 Morris Mechanic Theater (Baltimore, MD), 1964-1966

Drawings: 20 items


Box 1 Folder 13 Moving Picture Theater, 1943

Article for [i]Archiforum[/i] May, 1943


Box 8 Folder 1-3 Mummers Theater (Oklahoma City, OK), 1968-1993

Photographs: 187 items; transparencies: 6 items; negatives: 50 items; postcards; contact sheets; photostats; paper records including printed drawings, clippings, releases,


Box 9 Folder 1-2 Mummers Theater (Oklahoma City, OK), 1968-1993

Photographs: 187 items; transparencies: 6 items; negatives: 50 items; postcards; contact sheets; photostats; paper records including printed drawings, clippings, releases,


Roll A111.08 Mummers Theater (Oklahoma City, OK), 1968-1969

Drawings: 32 items


Roll A111.07 Mummers Theater (Oklahoma City, OK), 1968

Drawings: 12 items


Roll A111.06 Mummers Theater (Oklahoma City, OK), 1968

Drawings: 8 items


Roll A111.05 Mummers Theater (Oklahoma City, OK), 1968

Drawings: 15 items


Drawer 378 Mummers Theater (Oklahoma City, OK)

Repro: 1 items


Box 15 Folder 4 Neighborhood, undated

Drawings: 1 items


Roll A99.11 Nomad House, 1981

Drawings: 3 items


Box 1 Folder 14 108 Myrtle St, undated

Copy of plan drawing


Box 10 Folder 1 Orlando Public Library (Orlando, FL), 1966-1971, undated

Photographs: 37 items; negatives: 6 items; contact sheets; paper records including printed drawings, sketches, clippings, publications, project description, releases


Box 19 Folder 13 Orlando Public Library (Orlando, FL), 1963-1967

Bluprints and copy of drawing


Box 18 Folder 6 Pavilion of Earthly Delights, 1986

Copy of drawing


Box 15 Folder 5 Photographs, undated

Photographs: 7 items; including Mummers Theater, Morris Mechanic Theater, and US Embassy in Dublin


Box 1 Folder 15 Photos and Negatives, undated

Photographs: 20 items; negatives: 13 items; and contact sheets of various projects including Clowes, Mechanic Theater, US Embassy, Dixwell Housing, Orlando Library, Ritts House, Goddard Model, Spray House Model, Dixwell Church, Bridgeport Museum of Art, Science and Industry, and Taylor House by Uclid Cyr Photographer


Box 1 Folder 16 Poetics of Technology, 1989-1997

Photographs: 12 item; drawing: 1 item; transparencies: 36 items; negatives: 11 items; paper records including project descriptions and prints of drawings. Names of projects: Project #1 - "Froth" (1989); Project #2 - "Suspended Web" (1990); Project #3 - "Maglev Theater Center" (1991); Project #4 - "Metamorphic Capsule" (1992); Project #5 - "Labyrinth" (1992); Project #6 - "Flex Strut" (1993); Project #7 - "Air Quilt" (1995); Project #8 - "Thin Shell - Floating Conference Center" (1996); Project #9 - "Thin Shell - Floating House" (1997).


Box 19 Folder 14 Pool Pavilion, 1955-1961

Photostats of drawings


Box 1 Folder 17 Pope Residence (Salisbury, CT), 1978, undated

Photographs: 10 items; transparencies: 8 items; negatives of drawings: 5 items; contact sheets; paper records including prints of drawings


Roll A111.12 Pope Residence (Salisbury, CT), 1973-1975

Drawings: 22 items


Roll A111.11 Pope Residence (Salisbury, CT), 1973-1979

Drawings: 30 items


Roll A57A.15 Port Jefferson Condo-Marina (Long Island, NY), 1981-1983

Drawings: 37 items


Box 19 Folder 15 Project #5 Community Center, 2002-2007

Drawings 47 items; copies of drawings


Box 15 Folder 6 Prototypes, 1986

Note on tracing paper


Roll A57A.16 Quincy Office Building, 1984

Drawings: 13 items


Roll A103.12 Quincy Office Building I and II

Drawings: 16 items


Roll A99.09 Quincy Office Building III, 1985

Drawings: 18 items


Roll A99.11 Quincy Office Building III, 1985

Drawings: 9 items


Roll A99.12 Quincy Office Building IV, 1986

Drawings: 69 items


Roll A99.11 Quincy Office Building IV, 1986

Drawings: 12 items


Box 15 Folder 7 Renderings, undated

Prints of renderings of various projects, including MNT Bridge, morphable apartments, and Project #5 Community Center


Roll A103.12 Resort Hotel (Miami Beach, FL)

Drawings: 21 items


Roll A57A.14 Resort Hotel (Miami, FL; New York, NY), 1980

Drawings: 46 items


Box 10 Folder 2 Ritts House (Greenwich, CT), 1965-1994

Photographs: 37 items; transparencies: 6 items; negatives: 2 items; photostats of drawings; print advertisings; paper records including project descriptions and clippings


Roll A109.01 Ritts House (Greenwich, CT), 1966-1978

Drawings: 2 items


Roll A109.06 Ritts House (Greenwich, CT), 1965

Drawings: 29 items


Roll A109.07 Ritts House (Greenwich, CT), 1966-1978

Drawings: 39 items


Box 1 Folder 18-19 Roosevelt Island (NYC, NY), 1973-1978

Photographs: 70 items; transparencies: 13 item; negatives: 15 items; contact sheets' photostats; paper records including clippings, pamphlets, fact sheets, prints of drawings


Box 15 Folder 8 Roosevelt Island (NYC, NY), 1969-1972, undated

Photographs: 19 items; sketches: 13 items; photostats of drawings; paper records including publications


Roll A111.13 Roosevelt Island, Parcel 4 and 5 (NYC, NY), 1972-1974

Drawings: 24 items


Roll A111.14 Roosevelt Island, Parcel 4 and 5 (NYC, NY), 1972

Drawings: 46 items


Roll A111.16 Roosevelt Island, Parcel 6 (NYC, NY), 1972-1975

Drawings: 30 items


Roll A110.13 Roosevelt Island Parcel 6 (NYC, NY), 1973

Drawings: 20 items


Roll A110.14 Roosevelt Island Parcel 6 (NYC, NY), 1973

Drawings: 20 items


Roll A109.15 Roosevelt Island Parcel 6 (NYC, NY), 1973

Drawings: 31 items


Roll A109.16 Roosevelt Island Parcel 6 (NYC, NY), 1973

Drawings: 31 items


Roll A57A.08 Roosevelt Island Parcel 6 (NYC, NY), 1973

Drawings: 20 items


Roll A57A.09 Roosevelt Island Parcel 6 (NYC, NY), 1973

Drawings: 24 items


Roll A111.15 Roosevelt Island Parcel 6 (NYC, NY), 1973

Drawings: 24 items


Box 18 Folder 7 Saint Marks Lutheran Church (Norwich, CT), 1957, undated

Photographs: 34 items; project description


Roll A109.02 Saint Marks Lutheran Church (Norwich, CT), 1957

Drawings: 14 items


Box 1 Folder 20 Schwarzenbach House (South Norwalk, CT), undated

Photographs: 14 items; transparencies: 4 items; negatives: 3 items


Roll A109.01 Schwarzenbach House (South Norwalk, CT), 1977-1978

Drawings: 5 items


Roll A103.10 Schwarzenbach House (South Norwalk, CT), 1974

Drawings: 6 items


Roll A111.06 Schwarzenbach House (Vieques, Puerto Rico), 1977

Drawings: 14 items


Roll A99.12 Schwarzenbach House (Vieques, Puerto Rico), 1977

Drawings: 3 items


Box 1 Folder 21 Simon Houses (Pound Ridge, NY), undated

Photographs: 12 items; negatives: 21 items; photostats: 14 items; paper records including project description and printed drawings


Box 19 Folder 15 Shapiro House, undated

Photostats of drawings: 3 items


Box 15 Folder 9 Sheepshead Bay Housing Studies, 1968

Photostats of drawings: 5 items


Box 19 Folder 16 Sprayform Projects, 1956-1957

Photostats of drawings: 31 items; different iterations of sprayform projects, including Sprayed Concrete Bridge (New Haven, CT), Sprayed Concrete Church (Weston, CT), Sprayed Concrete Restaurant, and Sprayform Houses


Box 15 Folder 10 Sprayform House (Zagreb, Yugoslavia), 1955-1956

Photographs: 44 items; photostats of drawings; paper records including proejct description and clippings


Box 1 Folder 22 Sprayform Restaurant (Mt. Kisco, NY), undated

Photographs: 2 items; paper records including project description and drawings


Box 1 Folder 23-24 State University College (Westbury, NY), 1968-1973

Photographs: 17 items; color transparencies: 25 items; negatives: 419 items; contact sheets; photostats of drawings; clippings


Box 16 Folder 1-4 State University College (Westbury, NY), 1963, 1966, undated

Photographs: 80 items; copies and photostats of drawings


Box 19 Folder 17 State University College (Westbury, NY), 1971

Photostats of drawings: 4 items


Box 17 Folder 1 Staten Island Community College (Staten Island, NY), 1975-1976, undated

Photographs: 24 items; negatives: 2 items; negatives of drawings; paper records including drawings


Roll A57A.13 Staten Island Community College (Staten Island, NY), 1976

Drawings: 19 items


Roll A57A.12 Staten Island Community College (Staten Island, NY), 1976

Drawings: 21 items


Roll A103.10 Staten Island Community College (Staten Island, NY)

Drawings: 4 items


Box 19 Folder 18 Study for Church, 1957, undated

Photographs: 4 items; photostats of drawings


Box 17 Folder 2 Sulloway House (Darien, CT), 1955

Copies of drawings


Box 1 Folder 25 Symbolic Tower, undated

Negatives: 5 items; transparency: 1 item; a project about electro-magnetically controlled tower


Box 1 Folder 26 Taylor Residence (Westport, CT), 1962, undated

Photographs: 58 items; paper records including drawings and project descriptions


Box 18 Folder 8 Taylor Residence (Westport, CT), 1962-1964

Photographs: 28 items; photostats of drawings; paper records including drawings and clippings


Roll A109.05 Taylor Residence (Westport, CT), 1961

Drawings: 35 items


Box 19 Folder 19 Unidentified Project, undated

Photostats of drawings


Box 1 Folder 27-29 US Embassy (Dublin, Ireland), 1959-1968

Photographs: 145 items; paper records including drawings and clippings


Box 17 Folder 3 US Embassy (Dublin, Ireland), 1958-1964, undated

Photographs: 12 items; photostats of drawings and sketches


Box 19 Folder 20 US Embassy (Dublin, Ireland), 1957, undated

Photostats of drawings: 24 items


Roll A109.03 US Embassy (Dublin, Ireland), 1962

Drawings: 55 items


Drawer 074 Folder 1 US Embassy (Dublin, Ireland), undated, 5 photographs

Mounted photographs on board: 5


Box 10 Folder 3 Usdan Center for the Creative and Performing Arts (Long Island, NY), 1979

Negatives of clipping from [i]Baumeister[/i] 3, 1979


Box 17 Folder 4 Vassar Experimental Theater (Poughkeepsie, NY), 1965

Photostats of drawing: 26 items


Box 17 Folder 5 Warner House (New Canaan, CT), 1957-1958, 1981

Photographs: 16 items; negatives: 16 items; contact sheet; paper records including project description and clipping of Mr. and Mrs. Rawleigh Warner Residence, also called Bridge House


Box 2 Folder 1 Western Connecticut State College (Danbury, CT), 1970

Report titled "Comprehensive Master Plan: Western Connecticut State College - Volume 2: Developed Plan"


Box 10 Folder 4 Wood House (New Canaan, CT), 1950

Photostat of drawing: 1 item


Box 17 Folder 6 Whitney Expansion Counterproposal, 1984

Drawing: 1 item


Box 18 Folder 9 Woldin House or the Future Live/Work Apartment, 1995-2007

Drawings: 25 items; copies of drawings


Box 17 Folder 7 Work-Live Corporation Suite, undated

Drawings: 2 items; photostat of drawing

Series II: Professional Papers, 1955-2001

This series primarily consists of Johansen's essays--drafts and published versions, for magazines and talks--as well as manuscripts for books, including for his monograph that was later published as A Life in the Continuum of Modern Architecture (1995). This series also includes various paper records, including Johansen's C.V., letters from John F. Kennedy and Marshall McLuhan, his sketchbook, and certificates of awards from different institutions.


Box 2 Folder 2 Act and Behavior in Architecture, 1961

Article published in [i]Perspecta[/i] vol. 7, 1961 with draft


Box 2 Folder 3 Aesthetics of the City, 1972

Drafts dated April 18, 1972


Box 2 Folder 4 An Architecture for the Electronic Age, 1966

Draft and copies of the published version, published in [i]The American Scholar[/i] vol. 35 no. 3, Summer, 1966


Box 2 Folder 5 Architect-Artist, 1994

Copy of a booklet titled [i]John M. Johansen: Architect-Artist[/i] put together by former clients, who were selling their house, for prospective buyers


Box 2 Folder 6 Architecture: Three Imperatives, 1984

Copies of an article published in [i]Architecture: The AIA Journal[/i], March 1984


Box 2 Folder 7 Architecture: The Environmental Art, 1965

Drafts of a lecture at Clark University, January 8, 1965


Box 2 Folder 8 Book Review: Architecture: Action and Plan, 1967

Published review of Peter Cook's [i]Architecture: Action and Plan[/i] in [i]Architectural Forum[/i]. December 1967


Box 2 Folder 9 Book Review: The Matrix of Man, 1969

Review of Sibily Moholy Nagy's [i]The Matrix of Man[/i] published in [i]Architectural Forum[/i], May 1969, with draft


Box 2 Folder 10 By Their Own Design, 1979

Draft


Box 2 Folder 11 Comments on Post Modernism, 1983

Draft on Post Modernism, dated March 8, 1983


Box 2 Folder 12-13 Experimentations in Architecture, 1993

Working manuscripts titled [i]Experimentations in Architecture[/i], later published as [i]John M. Johansen: A Life in the Continuum of Modern Architecture[/i]


Box 2 Folder 14 Finding Poetry and Human Values in Technology, 1989

Published article in [i]AIA Memo[/i], September 1989


Box 2 Folder 15 Interview for L'Arca, 1989

Transcript of an interview for L'Arca no. 29, July-August, 1989


Box 2 Folder 16 Introduction to the Volume on Islamic Architecture, 1971

Draft with correspondence


Box 2 Folder 17 Observations and Deductions, 1986

Draft titled [i]Observations and Deductions[/i]


Box 2 Folder 18 New Town, 1967

Published article in [i]Architectural Forum[/i], September 1967


Box 2 Folder 19 On the Attainment of Quality, 1963

Transcript of a talk at AIA's event titled [i]The Professional Program: The Quest for Quality in Architecture[/i], in a panel titled "On the Attainment of Quality," published in [i]AIA Journal[/i], July 1963


Box 2 Folder 20 Philosophical Horizons, 1960

Transcript of a talk in a panel on "Philosophical Horizons" published in [i]AIA Journal[/i], June 1960


Box 2 Folder 21 Response to Ada Louise Huxtable, 1993

Response to Ada Louise Huxtable's "Inventing American Reality" published in [i]Interior Design[/i], May 1993


Box 2 Folder 22 Space-time Palladian, 1955

Drafts for an article published in [i]Architectural Record[/i], December 1955


Box 2 Folder 23 Sprayform Project, 1959

Descriptions, letters of endorsement from various architects regarding Johansen's attempt to request funding for Sprayform Project from Portland Cement Assocation


Box 2 Folder 24 The City as Organism, 1999

Draft of an article titled "The City as Organism" for [i]Ecoenea[/i] with correspondence


Box 2 Folder 25 The Avant-Garde in Architecture Today, 1964

Draft and a copy of the published version


Box 2 Folder 26 The Mummers Theater: A Fragment not a Building, 1968

Article published in [i]Architectural Forum[/i], May 1968, with drafts


Box 2 Folder 27 The New Modernity, 1989

Article published in [i]a+u[/i], September 1989


Box 2 Folder 28 The Poetic Truth of Architecture, 1957

Script of a lecture


Box 2 Folder 29 Book: Articles, 1966-1993

Various articles and clippings, collected for Johansen's monograph, including a draft by Lebbeus Woods


Box 2 Folder 30 Book: Illustrations - Background, undated

Photographs, drawings, and text description collected for Johansen's monograph


Box 2 Folder 31 Book: Illustrations - Building Complexes, undated

Photographs and clippings of Roosevelt Island, collected for Johansen's monograph


Box 2 Folder 32 Book: Illustrations - Clowes Hall, undated

Photographs and drawings of Clowes Hall, collected for Johansen's monograph


Box 2 Folder 33 Book: Illustrations - Dublin Embassy, undated

Photographs, drawings, and clippings of US Embassy in Dublin, collected for Johansen's monograph


Box 2 Folder 34 Book: Illustrations - Goddard Library, undated

Photographs and drawings of Goddard Library, collected for Johansen's monograph


Box 2 Folder 35 Book: Illustrations - Late Projects, undated

Photographs, drawings, and text description of late projects, collected for Johansen's monograph


Box 2 Folder 36 Book: Illustrations - Other Arts, undated

Photographs, drawings, and clippings, collected for Johansen's monograph


Box 2 Folder 37 Book: Illustrations - State College, undated

Photographs of State College, collected for Johansen's monograph


Box 2 Folder 38 Book: Illustrations - Staten Island Community College, undated

Photographs, clippings, and drawings of Staten Island Community College, collected for Johansen's monograph


Box 2 Folder 39 Book: Illustrations - Symbolic Houses, undated

Photographs, clippings, and drawings of Symbolic Houses, collected for Johansen's monograph


Box 2 Folder 40 Book: Illustrations - Sprayform, undated

Photographs, clippings, and drawings of Sprayform, collected for Johansen's monograph


Box 2 Folder 41 C.V., undated


Box 2 Folder 42 Cassette: Ad Hoc Architecture, 1983

Recording of a talk by John Johansen, produced by Pidgeon Audio Visual, accompanied with transparencies


Box 2 Folder 43 Correspondence, 1961-1967

Correspondence, including with John. F. Kennedy and Marshall McLuhan


Box 2 Folder 44 Letter to George Seferis, 1970


Box 2 Folder 45 Miscellaneous, 1962, 1966

Poster of an exhibition by Leonard Baskin and clipping


Box 2 Folder 46 Negatives - Projects, undated

Includes negatives of projects by Johansen


Box 11 Folder 1 Photos - Johansen, 1961-1975, undated

Photographs of John Johansen in various events and or with notable figures such as Le Corbusier, Marshall McLuhan, and John Lindsay: 17 items


Box 11 Folder 2 Posters & Pamphlets, 1968-1996

Posters and pamphlets regarding events in which Johansen was involved, mainly as speakers


Box 11 Folder 3 Sketchbook, 1991-2001

Johansen's sketchebook on applications of various building technologies


Box 11 Folder 4 Sketches, undated

Copies of sketches


Box 17 Folder 8 Certificates, 1956-1977

Certificates of awards from various institutions

Series III: Office Records, 1952-1995

This series contains various types of office-related documents. It includes a collection of book excerpts and magazines that published Johansen's projects, press kits, clippings, project descriptions, and exhibition panels.


Box 2 Folder 47 Advertising, undated

Advertising brochures of Tidewater House (CT), Woodview (CT), and Old Greenwich/Riverside (CT) by property agents


Box 2 Folder 48 Job Descriptions, undated

Pope House; Mummers Theater; Clowes Hall; Museum of Art, Science, and Industry; Florence Virtue Housing; Pitts Residence; Orlando Public Library; US Embassy Dublin; L. Frances Smith; Roosevelet Island; Ellsworth House; Goddard Library; Labyrinth House; Litchfield Jr. High School; Dixwell School; #2 Prototype Hotel


Box 2 Folder 49 Newspaper Clippings, 1956-1991


Box 2 Folder 50 Press Kit, 1967-1970

Press kits regarding the opening of Morris A. Mechanic Theatre and The Mummers Theatre


Box 2 Folder 51 Stationary, undated

Blank stationary


Box 3 Folder 1-6 Collected Books & Excerpts, 1952-1989

MoMA, [i]Built in USA: Post-war Architecture[/i]; Paul Heyer, [i]Architects on Architecture[/i]; Don Metz and Yuji Noga, [i]New Architecture In New Haven[/i]; Werner Ruhnau, [i]Versammlungsstätten[/i]; Bruno Zevi, [i]Cronache di architettura[/i]; Eva Jacob, [i]New Architecture in New England[/i]; Alison Sky and Michelle Stone, [i]Unbuilt America[/i]; Ann Ferebee, [i]Urban Design Case Studies[/i]; Carmine Benincasa, [i]Architettura come dis-identita[/i]; Bruno Zevi, [i]Il Linguaggio Moderno Dell'Architettura[/i]; Francesca Saveria Bedoni, [i]L'architettura frantumata John Mac Lane Johansen[/i]; Arthur Drexler, [i]Transformations in Modern Architecture[/i]; Fredric Hobbs, [i]Eat Your House[/i]; Abby Suckle. [i]By Their Own Design[/i] and [i]El Porque de Nuestros Disenos[/i]; Muriel Emanuel, [i]Contemporary Architects[/i]; Antonella Calderazzi, [i]Contro L'Ortodossia E Il Bello Estetico Un' Architettura Per Il Futuro: John Johansen[/i]; Peter Blake and Bernard Quint, [i]Modern Architecture/America[/i]; "Lingotto - La Consultazione Internazionale"; Sylvia Hart Wright, [i]Sourcebook of Contemporary North American Architecture[/i]; Vittorio Giorgini, [i]Urbology[/i]


Box 3 Folder 7-8 Collected Magazines: 1955-1970, 1955-1970


Box 3 Folder 9-11 Collected Magazines: 1971-1980, 1971-1980


Box 3 Folder 12-13 Collected Magazines: 1981-1990, 1981-1990


Box 3 Folder 14 Collected Magazines: 1991-1995, 1991-1995


Box 17 Folder 9 Collected Publications: Oversized, 1980, 1984


Box 12 Folder 1 Scrapbook I: US Embassy Building in Dublin, undated

Project description, clippings, drawings, and photographs


Box 12 Folder 2 Scrapbook I: Labyrinth House, undated

Project description, drawings, and photographs


Box 12 Folder 3 Scrapbook I: The Dixwell School, undated

Project description and photographs


Box 12 Folder 4 Scrapbook I: Orlando Public Library, undated

Project description, drawings, and photographs


Box 12 Folder 5 Scrapbook I: Private Residence in Connecticut, undated

Project description and clippings


Box 12 Folder 6 Scrapbook I: Clark University, undated

Project description, drawings, and photographs


Box 12 Folder 7 Scrapbook II: Florence Virtue Housing, undated

Project description, clippings, drawings, and photographs


Box 12 Folder 8 Scrapbook II: Litchfield Junior Highschool, undated

Project description, clippings, and photographs


Box 12 Folder 9 Scrapbook II: State University College at Old Westbury, undated

Project description, drawings, and photographs


Box 12 Folder 10 Scrapbook II: L. F. Smith Elementary School, undated

Clippings and photographs


Box 12 Folder 11 Scrapbook II: Office Building Charles Center, undated

Project description, drawings, and a model photograph


Box 12 Folder 12 Scrapbook II: Abraham Goodman House, undated

Project description


Box 12 Folder 13 Scrapbook III: State University College in Nassau County, undated

Project description, clippings, and photographs


Box 12 Folder 14 Scrapbook III: Usdan Center, undated

Project description and photographs


Box 20 Folder 1 Panel: Goddard Library, undated

Exhibition panels: 2 items


Box 20 Folder 2 Panel: Morris Mechanic Theater, undated

Exhibition panels: 5 items


Box 20 Folder 3 Panel: Mummers Theater, undated

Exhibition panel: 1 items


Box 20 Folder 4 Panel: Orlando Public Library, undated

Exhibition panels: 2 items