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...wish to express our pleasure with the cover story, but would like to point out an omission in the caption of the two illustrations of Clowes Memorial Hall, which was built in memory of my father. You name John Johansen as the architect. In fact he worked in association with Evans Woollen...
...comparison the smaller $1,000,000 Dublin embassy, designed by Connecticut Architect John M. Johansen, is exciting in design and construction. Its cylindrical shape, on a 110-ft. diameter, presents, says Johansen, a "façade that turns its back on no one." Made of concrete precast in Holland, the basic structural element is a twisted I, which, multiplied and dovetailed together, turns window frames into walls...
...weaves through space like the interlacing illuminations in the Irish Book of Kells. Set on a rusticated granite base, the moated turret echoes ancient Celtic round castles scattered across the green countryside, recalls the Martello towers built to defend Ireland's coasts during Napoleonic times. Johansen even made studies of how soot streaks the concrete so that the walls would weather with character...
Curves & Squares. For Manhattan Physician Howard Taylor, Architect John M. Johansen has built a many-chambered nautilus. Johansen, who trained under Walter Gropius, has veered away from the Master's Bauhaus cubism into a vocabulary of curves and coils, pleasing both to look at and to live in. The Taylor house is cast in forms of rough-sawed random-width oak slabs, which give concrete a rich, grainy texture. Says Johansen: "I think of a house as a series of shells which contain human organisms; the outside of the shell is an epidermis, and it can be as rough...
Penthouses & Fishbowls. Inside the Johansen house, the concave surfaces of the walls are finished in plaster, silk or Italian glass tile. The shell walls surround a living room with a fireplace in its own enclosed area, a dining room large enough for twelve, a skylighted kitchen, a master bedroom with two baths, a sitting room, and a penthouse study for the doctor. From here, he can wigwag through the skylight into the kitchen when he is ready for lunch. There is also a separate guest house that can accommodate six when the occasion arises...