Jason Johnson

B.S., University of Virginia;
M.Arch., Princeton University

Assistant Professor

Jason K. Johnson is a founding partner of Future Cities Lab LLC, an interdisciplinary research collaborative with design studios in the USA and Athens, Greece. Most recently, FCL’s competition entry for the 2005 Seoul Performing Arts Center was awarded a "Second Prize". The proposal intermeshed cutting-edge architectural design with technological advances in the material sciences, robotics and engineering. Conceived as a massive urban "energy-farm," fields of suspended heliotropic sky-pins generate energy and activate the island with variable conditions of light, color and sound. The proposed space frame would be the first large-scale non-military use of hyper carbon structural fibers in the world.

Mr. Johnson is currently a full-time faculty member at the University of Virginia School of Architecture, leading studios and research seminars in design, urbanism and advanced technologies. His spring 2006 seminar is entitled "Robotic Ecologies" (responsive environments, kinetic architectures, self-organizing intelligent systems). Jason is also a visiting lecturer at the UPenn Graduate School of Architecture in Philadelphia. In 2005 he became a research associate of the NSO (The Non-Linear Systems Organization) founded by Cecil Balmond and supported by the Arup Foundation and PennDesign.

Jason K. Johnson (b. 1973) was born and raised in Canada. He received his Master of Architecture degree from Princeton University in 2001, and his Bachelor of Science from the University of Virginia. While at Princeton Mr. Johnson was awarded a Butler Traveling Fellowship, a Princeton University Academic Fellowship, and the graduate Thesis Prize. He was the guest editor of 306090, a journal of emergent architecture and design, distributed by the Princeton Architectural Press. He has previously worked with Polshek Partnership and Reiser+Umemoto Architects in New York City.

For updated information, images and project credits visit: www.future-cities-lab.net

Robotic Ecologies Teaching Blog: http://robotic-ecologies.blogspot.com/