Joseph Giovannini's guest appearances

Joseph Giovannini

LA Review of Books

US Modernist Radio - Architecture You Love

Architecture, Design & Photography

Patrick MacLeamy

Alexandra Lange

Tom McCarthy

Herman Miller

Michael Boyd

Ijeoma Oluo

Patti Smith

Emily Dickinson

Bassem Youssef

Nicholson Baker

Mister Rogers

Peter Thiel

Alan Alda

Walter Gropius

Hans Sluga

OwlTail

Ilene Graff

Kenneth Frampton

It’s not easy getting people to admit something is a problem, then getting agreement on a solution, then finding the political will and money to get anything implemented. Architectural scholars offer intricate and complex design analysis for even larger and more complex social problems. Design scholars have their own rhythmic and intense way of writing as they search to provide meaningful analysis about buildings, materials, design, planning, and social impact. All this can be a little intimidating for the general public. Imagine if Sheldon Cooper from the Big Bang theory studied architecture instead of physics. Yet scholars are the R&amp;D department for innovations that may come 5, 10, or even 50 years later. Joining us are two of the most celebrated, most wicked smart design authors - Joseph Giovannini and Kenneth Frampton. Later, music by the lovely and charming Ilene Graff. 

It’s not easy getting people to admit something is a problem, then getting agreement on a solution, then finding the political will and money to get anything implemented. Architectural scholars offer intricate and complex design analysis for even larger and more complex social problems. Design scholars have their own rhythmic and intense way of writing as they search to provide meaningful analysis about buildings, materials, design, planning, and social impact. All this can be a little intimidating for the general public. Imagine if Sheldon Cooper from the Big Bang theory studied architecture instead of physics. Yet scholars are the R&amp;D department for innovations that may come 5, 10, or even 50 years later. Joining us are two of the most celebrated, most wicked smart design authors - Joseph Giovannini and Kenneth Frampton. Later, music by the lovely and charming Ilene Graff.

#259/Scholars: Joseph Giovannini + Kenneth Frampton + Musical Guest Ilene Graff

Architecture Unbound // Joseph Giovannini.  In this episode of Architecture, Design &amp; Photography we sit down with writer and design-firm owner Joseph Giovannini, whose latest book is Architecture Unbound: A Century of the Disruptive Avant-Garde (Rizzoli, 2021). In it, Joseph examines the influence of twentieth-century avant-garde movements on the contemporary architectural landscape through the work of “disruptors” such as Frank Gehry, Rem Koolhaas, and Zaha Hadid. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in criticism three times, Joseph has written thousands of articles on architecture, design, and urbanism for The New York Times, Art in America, Architect Magazine, The New York Review of Books, and Vanity Fair, among others. He has served as the architecture critic for New York Magazine, Los Angeles Herald Examiner, and Los Angeles Review of Books. Joseph was a staff reporter for The New York Times, to which he still contributes. A Yale graduate, Joseph also has an M.A. in French Language and Literature from Middlebury College, earned through studies at the Sorbonne, and an M.Arch from Harvard’s Graduate School of Design. He has taught studios, mostly in graduate programs, at Columbia University, Pratt Institute, Southern California Institute of Architecture, University of California, Los Angeles, University of Southern California, University of Innsbruck, and Harvard University, the Carpenter Center. Joseph has won several grants from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts; from Furthermore, a branch of New York’s JM Kaplan Fund, and from the NEA.Trained as an architect, Joseph heads his own design firm, Giovannini Associates. Published projects have appeared in Architectural Digest, Los Angeles Times Magazine, A + U, Domus, House &amp; Garden, GA Houses, Architekur und Wohnen, Sites, Interior Design, and The New York Times. Born in Los Angeles, Joseph lives in New York City with his wife and daughter.  More from Joseph Giovannini Architecture Unbound: https://www.rizzoliusa.com/book/9780847858798Website: https://www.giovanninidesign.com

Architecture Unbound // Joseph Giovannini.  In this episode of Architecture, Design &amp; Photography we sit down with writer and design-firm owner Joseph Giovannini, whose latest book is Architecture Unbound: A Century of the Disruptive Avant-Garde (Rizzoli, 2021). In it, Joseph examines the influence of twentieth-century avant-garde movements on the contemporary architectural landscape through the work of “disruptors” such as Frank Gehry, Rem Koolhaas, and Zaha Hadid. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in criticism three times, Joseph has written thousands of articles on architecture, design, and urbanism for The New York Times, Art in America, Architect Magazine, The New York Review of Books, and Vanity Fair, among others. He has served as the architecture critic for New York Magazine, Los Angeles Herald Examiner, and Los Angeles Review of Books. Joseph was a staff reporter for The New York Times, to which he still contributes. A Yale graduate, Joseph also has an M.A. in French Language and Literature from Middlebury College, earned through studies at the Sorbonne, and an M.Arch from Harvard’s Graduate School of Design. He has taught studios, mostly in graduate programs, at Columbia University, Pratt Institute, Southern California Institute of Architecture, University of California, Los Angeles, University of Southern California, University of Innsbruck, and Harvard University, the Carpenter Center. Joseph has won several grants from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts; from Furthermore, a branch of New York’s JM Kaplan Fund, and from the NEA.Trained as an architect, Joseph heads his own design firm, Giovannini Associates. Published projects have appeared in Architectural Digest, Los Angeles Times Magazine, A + U, Domus, House &amp; Garden, GA Houses, Architekur und Wohnen, Sites, Interior Design, and The New York Times. Born in Los Angeles, Joseph lives in New York City with his wife and daughter.  More from Joseph Giovannini Architecture Unbound: <a href="https://www.rizzoliusa.com/book/9780847858798" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.rizzoliusa.com/book/9780847858798</a>Website: <a href="https://www.giovanninidesign.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.giovanninidesign.com</a>

Ep: 066 - Architecture Unbound // Joseph Giovannini

Frank Gehry

Architect Frank Gehry sits down with Joseph Giovannini to discuss projects from across his career: including his rebuff of Donald Trump's inept courtship; his on-gong engagement with the LA River Project (which Giovannini has written about for LARB); and the many hurdles he had to overcome to complete the jewel of Downtown LA, Disney Hall.  This is a Master both in repose and politically engaged; reflective and yet adamant that his work serve humanity.

Frank Gehry in Dialogue with Joseph Giovannini