Title & Author:

Ad Hoc Architecture / [presented by] John Johansen.

Publication:

London, England : Pidgeon Digital, 1983.

Description:

1 online resource (1 video file (26 minutes)) : sound, color

Notes:
John Johansen, 1983 -- Oklahoma Theater Center. The Building Complex -- Oklahoma Theater Center. Plan -- Oklahoma Theater Center. Model Showing 3 Main Components, Sub-Components & Circuiting Systems -- Oklahoma Theater Center. Diagonal Circulation -- Oklahoma Theater Center. Non Compositional Design -- Oklahoma Theater Center. Ad Hoc Materials & Detailing -- Oklahoma Theater Center. Gratuitous Space -- Oklahoma Theater Center. Large Theater Fragmented Seating -- Johansen Rigged House. Exterior -- Johansen Rigged House. Growth & Permutation Drawings -- Johansen Rigged House. Rigging Like A Sail Boat -- Johansen Rigged House. Section -- Johansen Rigged House. Translucent Sheathing From Inside -- Johansen Rigged House. Cave Room -- Johansen Rigged House. Room Suspended From Steel Frame On Interior -- Johansen Rigged House. Flex Ducts Hanging In Space -- Johansen Rigged House. Bathtub Set In Rock & Plants -- Resort Hotel, Miami Beach. Model. Support System With Components -- Resort Hotel, Miami Beach. Model. Giant Frame & Infill -- Resort Hotel, Miami Beach. Model. Communications Platform -- Resort Hotel, Miami Beach. Model. Top View Showing UFO Restaurant -- Resort Hotel, Miami Beach. Model. Scenic Facade -- Resort Hotel, Miami Beach. Model. Elevators Into The "Cloud".

Summary:

John Johansen, a Harvard-educated New Yorker, has practised architecture since World War Two and since 1970 with Ashok Mohan Bhavnani. He taught at Yale, Columbia and the American Academy in Rome before becoming in 1976 Professor of Architecture at Pratt Institute, New York. Designer of many USA exhibitions and recipient of many of his country's top awards, he is the author of "The New Urban Aesthetic" (1972) and a number of provocative articles. Johansen sees architecture not as a fine art but as a service art, serving people's needs. He does not "compose" his buildings, he "rigs" them. First comes the framework, and onto this he hangs the functional components (rooms etc.). He does not start off with a pre-conceived idea of form; he produces ad hoc architecture geared to change. Furthermore, he sees all buildings as theatre, as the setting for Man's daily rituals. The users become part of the completion of the building. In his talk he uses three of his very individual creations to illustrate his ideas.

Subject:

Architecture Aesthetics.
Architecture, Modern 20th century.
Architecture Esthétique.
Architecture 20e siècle.
Architecture, Modern.

Added entries:

Johansen, John MacLane, 1916-2012, narrator.