Oral history interview with John Yeon
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 5 sound cassettes. Reformatted in 2010 as 9 digital wav files. Duration is 4 hrs., 27 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Yeon, John
label: Interviewer
content: Kolisch, Marian W.
label: Names
content: Belluschi, Pietro, 1899-1994
topic: label: Topic
content: Architecture -- Oregon -- Portland
label: Topic
content: Architects -- Oregon -- Portland -- Interviews
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: This interview is part of the Archives' Northwest Oral History Project, begun in 1982 to document the Northwest artistic community through interviews with painters, sculptors, craftsmen, educators, curators, and others, in Oregon, Washington and Montana.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Yeon, John
label: Interviewer
content: Kolisch, Marian W.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: John Yeon (1910-1994) was an architect from Portland, Oregon.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 70 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1982 December 14-1983 January 10
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.yeon82
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Pages
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
label: Type
content: Interviews
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Transcript also available at the University of Washington, Manuscripts Collection, and at the Oregon Historical Society.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of John Yeon conducted 1982 December 14-1983 January 10, by Marian W. Kolisch, for the Archives of American Art's Northwest Oral History Project.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Yeon speaks of his family background; his early interest in art; educational experiences; his early travels; his early interest in architecture and the influence of the Bauhaus architects; his involvement in landscape, city planning and conservation; and various architectural projects he has been involved in. He recalls the architect Pietro Belluschi.