A childhood fascination for objects matured into a vocation while designing exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Inspired by professors such as Raimund Abraham Johannes earned a Baccalaureate of Architecture with honors from Pratt Institute, while also meriting the American Institute for Architects’ “School Gold Medal,” and Pratt’s “Certificate for Outstanding Excellence in Design.” Already winning international design competitions prior to graduation, he was featured in the Architectural League of New York’s “Young Architects Forum.” After several years in the profession Johannes returned to academia to earn a “Post-professional Master of Architecture” at Yale where he studied under Dean Fred Koetter, a co-author of the book “Collage City,” architect Eric Owen Moss, and artist Frank Stella. From intimate residential interiors to large-scale institutional and critical urban projects his resume includes experience in the offices of Gaetano Pesce, KPF Architects, KPF Interior Architects and Jeff Vandeberg Architect. Though a native to New York City, he’s been displaced several times both in body and mind, thanks to a Van Alen Traveling Fellowship, a Dinkeloo Traveling Fellowship, and a coveted Rome Prize Fellowship to the American Academy... all rare and prestigious opportunities to explore the internal while examining the exotic. Rooted in issues of context, his intentions are global. Noted for his provocation “History: an argument against preservation,” his more personal projects have been supported by a variety of institutions including the Graham Foundation, the Emily Harvey Foundation, the Cini Foundation and the MacDowell Art Colony. Over the years Johannes garnered an unprecedented three “Unbuilt Architecture Awards,” from the Boston Society of Architects; while his most recent project, “Oculi,” was recently exhibited at the Palazzo Morosini-Garterberg in Venice. His ponderings have had audiences at the 2016 Venice Biennale, the Storefront for Art and Architecture, the Clocktower Gallery, and the Urban Center Galleries. Widely published, his work can be found in the permanent collection of the Canadian Center for Architecture. After three solid decades as a designer, educator and innovator his notable career has recently been celebrated with a “SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities.” He was cited as a “wellspring of information on design theory, historical precedent and culture.” Back in 2012 he represented FIT at a National Endowment for Humanities Summer Seminar at the American Academy in Rome which gathered 19 university professors across various disciplines, to explore and examine “Communication, Empire and the City of Rome.” More recently he was honored with a much sought-after Fellowship from the Bogliasco Foundation in Genoa. The foundation provides an opportunity to engage with other distinguished academics from across the globe and admits only those “who have demonstrated significant achievement in their disciplines, commensurate with their age and experience.”
2020
Johannes Marinus Petrus Knoops, relevant qualifications to teach History/Theory/Criticism III