The New York Times   Joseph Giovannini   Arata Isozaki, a prolific Japanese architect, urban planner and theorist who received a belated Pritzker Architecture Prize at the age of 87, died on Wednesday at home in Okinawa. He was 91. His death was confirmed by his longtime companion, Misa Shi

The New York Review of Books    Joseph Giovannini   There are two demolitions going on at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the largest encyclopedic museum west of the Mississippi... (‘The Redesign of LACMA: An Exchange’ Michael Govan, reply by Joseph Giovannini)...

The New York Times   Joseph Giovannini   Mr. Sorkin, who died of the coronavirus, promoted social justice in his prodigious output of essays, lectures and designs...

LA Review of Books   Joseph Giovannini   Joseph Giovannini scrutinizes LACMA director Michael Govan’s failures and deceptions surrounding the museum’s renovations. Until about two weeks ago, announcements by Michael Govan, director of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, were always reassu