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Drawing on conversations in architectural history and theory, philosophy, sociology, contemporary politics, and the environmental movement, this three-part lecture will explain why academic work often appears so strange, how to make work interesting, and what’s at stake in architecture’s paradoxical relationship with beauty and justice.
Meet our Speaker
Todd Gannon, AIA is professor of architecture at The Ohio State University’s Knowlton School, where he was head of the architecture section from 2017 to 2022. He has held the Robert S. Livesey Professorship at the Knowlton School and the Cass Gilbert Visiting Professorship at the University of Minnesota. He also has taught at Otis College of Art and Design, UCLA, and SCI-Arc, where he coordinated the History + Theory curriculum from 2011 to 2017.
Gannon studies the history and theory of late 20th-century and contemporary architecture, focusing on architectural materiality and media, the historiography of modern and postmodern architecture, and vanguard architectural movements from the postwar period to the present. He is the author of Franklin D. Israel: A Life in Architecture (forthcoming, 2025), Figments of the Architectural Imagination (2022), and Reyner Banham and the Paradoxes of High Tech (2017), and is the editor of The Light Construction Reader (2002), Et in Suburbia Ego: José Oubrerie’s Miller House (2013), Craig Hodgetts’ Swimming to Suburbia (2018), and monographs on the work of Peter Eisenman, Zaha Hadid, Steven Holl, Morphosis, Eric Owen Moss, Oyler Wu Collaborative, Mack Scogin/Merrill Elam Architects, Bernard Tschumi, and UN Studio. His essays have appeared in The Architect’s Newspaper, Domus, Harvard Design Magazine, the Journal of Architectural Education, Log, and elsewhere. In collaboration with Ewan Branda and Andrew Zago, he curated the 2013 exhibition A Confederacy of Heretics.
Lunch will be provided.
AIA Members / Allied Members: Free
Assoc. AIA Members / Students: Free
Non-Members: $30