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

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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.

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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