Title & Author:

Future Realities / [presented by] John Johansen.

Publication:

London, England : Pidgeon Digital, 1997.

Description:

1 online resource (1 video file (24 minutes)) : sound, color

Notes:
Inflated Bubble. Exhibition Screens -- Inflated Bubble. Close View Of The Model -- Inflated Bubble. Drawing Of The Levitator -- Inflated Bubble. Close View Of The Model -- Suspended Web. Exhibition Screens -- Maglev Theatre. Exhibition Screen -- Maglev Theatre. Close View Of Model -- Maglev Theatre. The Three Theatres -- Maglev Theatre. Self-Levelling Platform. Section & Simulation -- Metamorphic Capsule. Exhibition Screen -- Metamorphic Capsule. Deformation By Electro-Magnets. Diagram -- Flexstrut. Exhibition Screen -- Flexstrut. The 3 Theatres. Computer Projections -- Flexstrut. Montage Of Theatre In Times Square -- Flexstrut. Sketch & Model Of Structural Node -- Air Quilt. Exhibition Screen: Inside An Air Quilt -- Air Quilt. Quilt Wall Twisted By Transfer Of Air From Inner To Outer Layers Of The Chambers -- Thin Shell. Exhibition Screen -- Thin Shell. Model.

Summary:

John Johansen has been practicing and teaching architecture in the USA ever since World War II and is famous for his Oklahoma Theatre Center, which was completed in 1983. But in recent years he has been thinking about the look of architecture in the future, based on developments in the scientific world. In this second recording made by Johansen for Pidgeon Digital, he dwells exclusively on his futuristic ideas, showing seven projects which have already appeared in an exhibition in 1996 at London's Building Centre, and in a monograph on his work (John M. Johansen: A Life In The Continuum Of Modern Architecture - L'Arca Edizione, Milan). He delights, he says, "in founding, from building methods, new building methods that have never been investigated before... and out of that, ending up in what I call a true new aesthetic which is not stylistic... but one which honestly grows from new ways of building". Being at the time of this talk already 80 years old, he does not expect to see any of his ideas realised in his lifetime, but hopes that they may inspire others to find a new architecture for themselves.

Subject:

Futurism (Architecture)
Futurisme (Architecture)

Added entries:

Johansen, John MacLane, 1916-2012, narrator.