Joseph Giovannini

Portrait of Joseph Giovannini
Year of birth, place
1945, California, United States
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

 

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