Background
Johnson, Scott was born on February 1, 1951 in Salinas, California, United States. Son of Russell and Louise (Haynie) Johnson.
Johnson, Scott was born on February 1, 1951 in Salinas, California, United States. Son of Russell and Louise (Haynie) Johnson.
Student, Stanford University, 1970-1971; Bachelor of Arts in Architecture magna cum laude, University of California, Berkeley, 1972; Master in Architecture, Harvard University, 1975.
Educated at Stanford University, the University of California at Berkeley and the Harvard Graduate School of Design, Johnson has travelled widely and, in his early years, worked in a number of seminal firms. Johnson is the author of several books, the most recent including The Big Idea: Criticality & Practice in Contemporary Architecture and Tall Building: Imagining the Skyscraper. He has lectured widely on architectural topics and has taught at the Southern California Institute of Architecture (Service Civil International-Arc), the University of California, Los Angeles (University of California, Los Angeles), and the University of Southern California ( University of Southern California) where he was, from 2003 to 2006, the Director of the Master of Architecture Programs.
Scott Johnson has worked variously at The Architects" Collaborative, the firm founded by Walter Gropius, Skidmore, Owings and Merrill in the Los Angeles and San Francisco offices and at Philip Johnson & John Burgee in New York City.
In 1983, he relocated to Los Angeles where he accepted the role of Design Director and Principal at Pereira Associates, formerly William L. Pereira Associates. Johnson Fain has received many for design excellence.
In Northern California, Johnson Fain was the design architect for The Capitol Area East End, Sacramento’s easterly expansion of State Capitol offices, Rincon Center, the adaptive re-use of, and the addition of new residential towers to, the historic Rincon Postal Annex in San Francisco and the Opus One Winery in the Napa Valley. Johnson Fain was also the master plan architect for Mission Bay, San Francisco’s 300-acre (12 km2) mixed-use community and home to University of California San Francisco’s medical campus.
In Southern California, Century City’s Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Tower, SunAmerica Center and Fox Plaza, downtown’s Central High School/Miguel Contreras Learning Complex, and Amgen’s Thousand Oaks headquarters campus have all been designed by Johnson Fain.
Currently, the office is designing and master planning projects in California, Oklahoma, Texas, Japan and China.
Principal works include Fox Plaza, Los Angeles, 1987, Andrex Point, Torrance, California, 1989, Paradise Restaurant, Los Angeles, 1989, Rincon Center, San Francisco, 1990, Nestle United States of America Headquarters, Glendale, California, 1991, 1999 Avenue of the Stars, Los Angeles, 1992, Opus One Winery, Oakville, California, 1992, LeoPalace Resort, Manenggon Gills, Guam, 1993, Pasadena Towers, California, 1993, SunAm. Corporation Headquarters, Los Angeles.
Member Museum of Architecture committee Chicago Athenaeum. Member University of California at Los Angeles dean's council University of California at Los Angeles Graduate School Architecture & Urban Planning. Founding member Restoration Associates of the Freeman House.
Founder Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, member architecture & design council. Member American Institute of Architects (Design award Los Angeles chapter 1984, Citation Honor award 1984, Design award Orange County chapter 1984), Urban Land Institute, Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design, Westside Urban Forum, University of Southern California Architectural Guild, Los Angeles Conservancy, National Trust for Historic Preservation, Phi Beta Kappa.
Married Margaret E. Bates, June 22, 1974. Children: Maxwell Bates Johnson, Zoe Cristina Bates Johnson.