Southern California Institute of Architecture
Lecture with Curator Todd Gannon: Prelude to the Confederacy
960 E. 3rd Street
Los Angeles, CA 90013
Todd Gannon is a registered architect and writer based in Los Angeles. He received Bachelor of Science and Master of Architecture degrees from Ohio State University and earned his Ph.D. from UCLA. He taught at Ohio State, UCLA and Otis College of Art and Design before joining the faculty at SCI-Arc in 2008, where he is now Cultural Studies coordinator. Gannon’s research focuses on the history and theory of late 20th-century and contemporary architecture. His published books include The Light Construction Reader (2002), and monographs on the work of Morphosis, Bernard Tschumi, Zaha Hadid, Peter Eisenman and others. His essays have appeared in Log, The SAGE Handbook for Architectural Theory (2012) and elsewhere. Gannon is co-curator of the exhibition A Confederacy of Heretics: The Architecture Gallery, Venice, 1979, funded by the Getty Foundation as part of the Getty’s Pacific Standard Time Presents: Modern Architecture in L.A.initiative.
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