Scott Johnson (architect)

Scott Johnson (born February 1, 1951) is an American architect. He is the co-founder and Design Partner of Johnson Fain, an international architecture, planning and interior design firm located in Los Angeles.[1]

Museum Tower (Dallas), Dallas, completed January 2013

Education and career

Johnson studied at Stanford University, the University of California at Berkeley and the Harvard Graduate School of Design.[2][3] He has lectured and taught at the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc), the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and the University of Southern California (USC), where he served as the Director of the Master of Architecture Programs from 2003-2006.

Johnson has worked at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, The Architects' Collaborative and at Philip Johnson & John Burgee.[3] In 1983, he relocated to Los Angeles where he was 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.[2][3]

He has authored several books, including Performative Skyscraper Tall Building Design Now, The Big Idea: Criticality & Practice in Contemporary Architecture and Tall Building: Imagining the Skyscraper, and Essays on the Tall Building & the City.[2]

References
  1. "Scott Johnson". Retrieved 3 April 2012.
  2. "Scott Johnson, FAIA – Johnson Fain". Retrieved 2021-02-11.
  3. Frantz, Douglas (1991-11-24). "Scott Johnson's Main Chance : The Vitality of Downtown L.A. and the Reputation of a Brash Architect Are Riding on a Sweeping Plan to Add Five Skyscrapers to the City's Core". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2021-02-11.
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