Joseph Giovannini
Year of birth, place
Biography
Joseph Giovannini is an author, critic and architect. Twice a Pulitzer-Prize nominee in criticism, he has written as an architecture critic for The Los Angeles Herald Examiner, The New York Times and New York Magazine, and has contributed to The Los Angeles Times, The New Yorker, Esquire, Architectural Record and Architectural Digest, Art in America, Wired, among many other publications. Mr. Giovannini has received numerous writing awards, and has lectured widely. He earned his B.A. in English Literature at Yale, M.A. in French Language and Literature through studies at the Sorbonne, and M.Arch. at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University. He has taught at Harvard, Columbia, UCLA, the University of Southern California School of Architectcure, and the Southern California Institute of Architecture. He was born and raised in Los Angeles, and splits his time between New York and Los Angeles.
Selected Teaching
Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Advanced Studios, 1995, 1997, 2000, spring 2003 |
University of California, Los Angeles, Graduate School of Architecture and Urban Planning, Advanced Graduate Studio, Spring 2000 and Fall 2003 |
University of Southern California, School of Architecture, Graduate Studio, Spring 1999, fall-spring 2004-5, as the A.C. Martin Visiting Professor in Architectural Design. |
Southern California Institute of Architecture, Vertical Studio, Spring 1998 |
University of Innsbruck, Advanced Design Studio, Spring 1998 |
University of Southern California, School of Architecture, Visiting lecturer, 1980-1981 |
Harvard University, Teaching Fellow, Carpenter Center, Drawing,1971-1972
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Architecture Projects
Conversion of Truck Garage into 15 loft units, beginning construction fall 2006 | |
Connection and merger of three apartments into one, Murray Hill, New York (in design) | |
Apartment renovation, Murray Hill, 600 sq.ft., 2006 | |
Loft studios, Los Angeles, 600 sq.ft. and 900 sq. ft., 2005 | |
Cardiology Offices, Maclean, Virginia, 2005 | |
2211 Gallery, Los Angeles, March 2003 | |
Studio, Los Angeles, 2500 sq. ft. interior, February, 2002. | |
Poliquen residence addition, Brentwood, 2000 sq. ft., conceptual design | |
Single family residence, Glendale, California (in design) | |
Carpet design for V'Soske, Architect's Collection | |
Kevles Residence Renovation and Addition, Pasadena | |
Renovation and seismic upgrade of 13,000 sq. ft. commercial building, Los Angeles | |
Labor Ready commercial space renovation, Los Angeles, 1998 | |
Gut renovation one-bedroom apartment, Murray Hill, 1995 | |
Kitchen and bath renovation, Downtown loft, New York, 2000 | |
Post Residence, 2000 square-foot addition and house renovation, Armonk, New York, 2000 | |
Renovation Friedman Residence, Upper Eastside one-bedroom apartment, 1999 | |
Revard House addition and renovation, Grosse Pointe, Michigan, 1999 | |
Dohan House addition and renovation, Gross Pointe, Michigan, 1997 | |
Renovation, Mante Studio, Murray HIll
Selected Published Architectural Designs |
Kevles Residence, Los Angeles Times Magazine, scheduled March 2002 |
Murray Hill apartment, Architectural Digest, November 2001 |
Architects House Themselves, Michael Webb, Preservation Press, 1997 |
Penthouse duplex, Gramercy Park, New York, featured in A + U Domus Architektur und Wohnen (September HG Sites (September GA Houses No. 28 (Tokyo, New York Architecture (Frankfurt: Frankfurt Architectural Museum; New York: Rizzoli) |
Apartment interior, Murray Hill, New York, Architectural Digest |
Cardiology office, Washington, D.C., Interior Design |
Selected Symposia and Lectures
"Building Walt Disney Concert Hall," The Getty Research Institute in collaboration with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, participant in panel, "The Meaning of Walt Disney Concert Hall within the Fabric of Downtown Los Angeles," 20 April 2002 |
"Aesthetics-Ethics," University of Virginia School of Architecture, Charlottesville, VA, April 5-6,2002, panel moderator. |
"The Contemporary Art Tower in Arenbergpark, Vienna," MAK Center, R.M. Schindler House, Los Angeles, November, 2000. |
"Ruminations on Current Architecture," Carnegie Institute of Art, February 2000 |
"Spaces of Uncertainty: Current Work," Knoll Design Symposium, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield HIlls, Michigan, June 10, 1999. |
"The Contribution of Ray Eames," MAK center, R.M. Schindler House, Los Angeles, Winter 1997. |
""Who's Building Whose Museum?" participant in a symposium sponsored by the Association of Art Museum Directors, for MIdwinter Meeting, January 26, 1996, held at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. |
"Architects as Public Artists": participant in a symposium sponsored by the Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design and the Southern California Institute of Architecture, December 7, 1994. |
"Architecture Unbound: Buildings, Computers and the New Complexity," organizer and moderator of 4-part symposium at the Architectural League, Spring1993 |
"CompleCities," lecture at the Savannah College of Art and Design, January 20, 1993 |
"Variable Space and Form," lecture at the University of Pennsylvania, Graduate School of Fine Arts, October 13, 1992 |
"The Deconstructed Turn," lecture at The Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., Spring 1989 |