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Home » Authors » Joseph Giovannini

Joseph Giovannini

Joseph Giovannini is an architect and critic based in Los Angeles and New York.

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Furniture: 1960-2020, Paris

Exhibition Review: 'Furniture: 1960–2020' in Paris

Joseph Giovannini
September 6, 2019
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A temporary show at Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine pits modern furniture against casts of fragments from Medieval and Renaissance architecture.


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Qatar Stadium

Zaha Hadid’s Al Wakrah Stadium Opens as the Latest Addition to Qatar’s Cultural Landscape

Joseph Giovannini
May 23, 2019
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With the 2022 FIFA World Cup imminent, Qatar is on a tear to reshape its capital, building stand-out architecture and legacy infrastructure that will shape the city for decades.


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The Shed

The Shed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro with Rockwell Group

New York City
Joseph Giovannini
April 26, 2019
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With just one striking design move, an ambitious cultural building in New York lets the creative activity it fosters make all the noise.


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LACMA Rendering

Zumthor’s Incredibly Shrinking Plan for the LA County Museum of Art

Joseph Giovannini
April 8, 2019
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Swiss architect Peter Zumthor’s controversial design for LACMA has turned into Los Angeles’ most serious cultural issue in the last decade, writes commentator Joseph Giovannini.


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Frank Gehry

Music Melds With Architecture at Frank Gehry’s 90th Birthday Party in Berlin

Joseph Giovannini
March 4, 2019
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The architect celebrated his birthday at the Pierre Boulez Hall, where pianist and conductor Daniel Barenboim dedicated a concert to him.


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2018 Venice Architecture Biennale Highlights

2018 Venice Architecture Biennale Highlights Local Work

Joseph Giovannini
July 5, 2018
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A kinder, gentler event celebrates the local while overlooking globalization.


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Funeral Services Held for Zaha Hadid

Funeral Services Held for Zaha Hadid in London

The weekend marked a long goodbye for the late architect.
Joseph Giovannini
April 12, 2016
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Last Wednesday, just as a thousand people left the prayer service for Zaha Hadid at London’s Grand Mosque, it started to rain—appropriately enough at a dramatic diagonal—and not long after, as her family and friends motored in a caravan of buses to a cemetery in Surrey, the clouds parted and a double rainbow appeared.


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Gerhard Kallmann: 1915-2012

Joseph Giovannini
June 29, 2012
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Photo © Ernst Halberstadt/Wikipedia Boston City Hall was completed in 1968. Some competitions immediately catapult architects into architectural history. Gerhard Kallmann, who died June 19 in Boston at the age of 97, earned his place in the pantheon early in his long career when he and his collaborators, Michael McKinnell and Edward Knowles, all teachers at Columbia, won the competition for Boston City Hall in 1962. There were 256 entries in two rounds; the final vote was unanimous. Related links Record Reveals: Boston Boston was in decline. Architecture, as a means of shaping society and revitalizing cities, was ascendant. Their design
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Gerhard Kallmann: 1915-2012

Joseph Giovannini
June 29, 2012
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Photo © Ernst Halberstadt/Wikipedia Boston City Hall was completed in 1968. Some competitions immediately catapult architects into architectural history. Gerhard Kallmann, who died June 19 in Boston at the age of 97, earned his place in the pantheon early in his long career when he and his collaborators, Michael McKinnell and Edward Knowles, all teachers at Columbia, won the competition for Boston City Hall in 1962. There were 256 entries in two rounds; the final vote was unanimous. Related links Record Reveals: Boston Boston was in decline. Architecture, as a means of shaping society and revitalizing cities, was ascendant. Their design
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Inside Out: A Tale of Two Embassies

Joseph Giovannini
October 16, 2009
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The Berlin site is woven into a dense urban fabric, but the embassy in Beijing, designed by Craig Hartman of the San Francisco office of SOM, sits within a gated island of walled space several ring roads removed from the Forbidden City.


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