UCLA AUD Winter 2025 Events: Todd Gannon (PhD ‘11) presents "Franklin D. Israel: A Life in Architecture"
March 13, 2025, 5:30 pm, Perloff Hall Decafe
Todd Gannon (PhD '11) 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.
Gannon holds undergraduate and graduate degrees from the Knowlton School and a PhD from UCLA. A registered architect, he has practiced with Acock Associates Architects in Columbus and was senior associate at Kovac Architects in Los Angeles. He has lectured at institutions across the United States, in Europe, and in Asia, and is a frequent conference participant and jurist. He has served on the boards of directors of AIA Ohio and the Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design. His work has been recognized and supported by the American Institute of Architects, the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, the Getty Foundation, the Graham Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, The Ohio State University, SCI-Arc, and UCLA.