Joseph Giovannini

A Pulitzer nominee in criticism who trained in architecture at Harvard, Joseph Giovannini's career has spanned three decades and two coasts. He has served as the architecture critic for New York Magazine and the Los Angeles Herald Examiner, and was long a staff writer on design and architecture for The New York Times. He has contributed to many other publications including The New Yorker, Architectural Record, Architectural Digest, Art in America, Art Forum, Architecture Magazine, Architect...See more

A Pulitzer nominee in criticism who trained in architecture at Harvard, Joseph Giovannini's career has spanned three decades and two coasts. He has served as the architecture critic for New York Magazine and the Los Angeles Herald Examiner, and was long a staff writer on design and architecture for The New York Times. He has contributed to many other publications including The New Yorker, Architectural Record, Architectural Digest, Art in America, Art Forum, Architecture Magazine, Architect Magazine, Industrial Design Magazine, and Interior Design. A prominent figure in American architecture, he is activist critic with a record of discovering emerging talent for major mainstream publications and professional journals. He coined the term Deconstructivism, has written thousands of articles for periodicals, and has authored numerous essays for books and monographs. As a critic, he has won awards, grants, and honors from the Art World Magazine/Manufacturer's Hanover Trust for distinguished newspaper architectural criticism, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Graham Foundation, the Los Angeles Chapter of the AIA and the AIA California Council. He received his B.A. in English at Yale University and an M.A. in French Language and Literature from Middlebury College for work done at La Sorbonne, Paris. See less