The Skyscraper Museum is hosting a virtual program featuring Joseph Giovannini speaking about his book Architecture Unbound. Giovannini traces the current architecture landscape to disruptive scientific advances, transgressive and progressive art movements that roiled Europe before and after World War I, and then to the social unrest and cultural disruptions of the 1960s. Cumulative shifts across disciplines and social systems established fertile new ground for the rise of an inventive, antiauthoritarian architecture that, in the 1970s, challenged the status quo. Built manifestoes in the 1980s led to digital inventions of the 1990s, and after the turn of the millennium to climax structures that now populate world capitals competing for cultural stature on the international stage.

Joseph Giovannini is a practicing architect and prolific critic who has written on architecture and design for four decades for such publications as the New York Times, Architectural Record, Art in America, and Art Forum, and he has served as the architecture critic for New York Magazine, Los Angeles Review of Books and the Los Angeles Herald Examiner.

Tuesday January 25, 6:00pm
The Skyscraper Museum
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