About the Author

A practicing architect and activist critic, Joseph Giovannini has written thousands of articles on architecture, design and urbanism for the New York Times, Art in America, Art Forum, Architect magazine, Architectural Record, Interior Design and The New York Review of Books, following the development of architecture’s late avant-garde as it unfolded. He has served as the architecture critic for New York Magazine, The Los Angeles Herald Examiner, and The Los Angeles Review of Books.

His monumental Architecture Unbound: A Century of the Disruptive Avant-Garde (Rizzoli) was published in 2021.

He has been nominated for a Pulitzer in criticism three times. He coined the term “Deconstructivism.”

A Yale graduate, Giovannini also has a master’s in French language and literature from Middlebury College, through studies at the Sorbonne, and an MArch from Harvard University's Graduate School of Design.

He has taught graduate design studios at the Columbia University; Pratt; University of California, Los Angeles; and University of Southern California’s School of Architecture.