as Chair from 1982 to 1988 and again in 1996, and he remained on the Committee for almost two decades. He was a founding member of Allied Arts of Seattle in 1952; in the 1960s he was a leader in Allied Arts's fight for legislation in Olympia to eliminate billboards. He served on the Washington State Architectural Registration Board from 1970 to 1981 and again from 1988 to 1999. He served as AIA Seattle president in 1981. Johnston was elected a Fellow in the American Institute of Architects in 1982; he received the AIA Seattle Chapter Medal in 1990. He was a co-recipient, with his wife L. Jane Hastings, of the Leslie Boney Spirit of Fellowship Award given by the AIA College of Fellows. He received the Washington State Distinguished Citizen Award in 1991. Writings Johnston, Norman J., Cities in the Round University of Washington Press, Seattle and London, 1983. Johnston, Norman J., Washington's Audacious State Capitol and its Builders, University of Washington Press, Seattle and London 1988, Johnston, Norman J., The College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Seventy Five Years at the University of Washington: A Personal View, College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Seattle 1991. Johnston, Norman J., The Fountain and the Mountain: The University of Washington Campus, Documentary Book Publishers, Woodinville WA, 1995; second edition: Documentary Media and the University of Washington, 2004 Johnston, Norman J., The Campus Guides: the University of Washington, Princeton Architectural Press, New York, 2001, References External links AIA Seattle Honors Archive 2015 deaths American architecture writers American male non-fiction writers American architectural historians Fellows of the American Institute of Architects Architects from Seattle University of Washington alumni University of Oregon alumni University of Pennsylvania School of Design alumni University of Washington faculty Writers from Seattle 1918 births Historians from Washington (state)