Scott Johnson (born February 1, 1951) is an American

architect An architect is a person who plans, designs and oversees the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to provide services in connection with the design of buildings and the space within the site surrounding the buildings that h ...

. He is the co-founder and Design Partner of Johnson Fain, an international

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, planning and

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firm located in

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Education and career

Johnson studied at

Stanford University Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is consider ...

, the

University of California at Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant univ ...

and the

Harvard Graduate School of Design The Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) is the graduate school of design at Harvard University, a private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It offers master's and doctoral programs in architecture, landscape architecture, urban ...

. He has lectured and taught at the

Southern California Institute of Architecture Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) is a private architecture school in Los Angeles, California. Founded in 1972, SCI-Arc was initially regarded as both institutionally and artistically avant-garde and more adventurous than t ...

(SCI-Arc), the

University of California, Los Angeles The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California. UCLA's academic roots were established in 1881 as a teachers college then known as the southern branch of the California St ...

(UCLA) and

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(UCB), and the

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(USC), where he served as the Director of the Master of Architecture Programs from 2003-2006. Johnson has worked at

The Architects' Collaborative The Architects Collaborative (TAC) was an American architectural firm formed by eight architects that operated between 1945 to 1995 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The founding members were Norman C. Fletcher (1917-2007), Jean B. Fletcher (1915-1965 ...

(TAC) in Cambridge, Massachusetts,

Skidmore, Owings & Merrill Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) is an American architectural, urban planning and engineering firm. It was founded in 1936 by Louis Skidmore and Nathaniel A. Owings, Nathaniel Owings in Chicago, Illinois. In 1939, they were joined by engineer Jo ...

(SOM) in Los Angeles and San Francisco, and Johnson Burgee in New York City. In 1983, he relocated to Los Angeles where he became Design Director and Principal at Pereira Associates. In 1989, Johnson assumed control of the office with his former Harvard classmate, William H. Fain, Jr., and renamed and rebuilt the firm as Johnson Fain. Johnson and his firm have been the recipient of many awards for design excellence and have designed projects ranging from the First Americans Museum in Oklahoma City, Museum Tower in Dallas, Christ Cathedral in Garden Grove, California and the Capital Area East End Complex at California’s State Capitol. The work is also well-known abroad where the firm has completed projects throughout the Asian Pacific Rim. He has authored a number of books including ''The Big Idea, Criticality and Practice in Contemporary Architecture, Tectonics of Place: The Architecture of Johnson Fain'', a series of 3 books on the design of tall buildings, and ''Uncommon Ground: Notes on the Visual Arts + Architecture''. With his partner, he has been a recipient of the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Lifetime Achievement Award and the American Institute of Architects/Los Angeles Chapter Gold Medal.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Johnson, Scott Living people 20th-century American architects 1951 births Harvard Graduate School of Design alumni Stanford University alumni UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design alumni Place of birth missing (living people) 21st-century American architects