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

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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