Jon Yoder, Ph.D.

Biography

Jon Yoder is a designer and scholar of modern architecture and visual media who received his Ph.D. in Architecture from UCLA. He teaches design and theory in the CAED and taught previously at Syracuse University and SCI-Arc. His designs with Pei Cobb Freed, ZGF Architects and SPF:architects have been published widely, and his research and teaching have been supported by numerous grants and awards. These include an ARCHITECT Studio Prize for his graduate design studio “Graphic Novels / Novel Architecture” and a Graham Foundation grant for his forthcoming book, Widescreen Architecture: Immersive Media and John Lautner.

Education

Ph.D. in Architecture, UCLA |
M.Arch, The University of Texas at Austin |
B.A. in Art and Communication, Goshen College

Expertise

Architectural Design | History
Theory and Criticism | Media and technology | Visual Culture | Digital Fabrication

Publications

Widescreen Architecture: Immersive Media and John Lautner / Book (forthcoming)
“Design vs. History: Materializing Theory After the Post-Linguistic Turn” | Architectural Theory Now? (forthcoming)
“Architecture After Affect” / Architecture, Film, and the Inbetween / 2023
“Aerial Viscosity: The Architecture of Drone Photography” / Virtual Interiorities / 2022
“Photo-Graphic Architecture” | Symposium | 2020
“Playing in the World, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Fetish” | Archinect.com | 2019
“Atlas of Graphic Novel Tectonics” | Flat Out | 2017
“Graphic Novels / Novel Architecture” | Symposium: http://graphicnovelarchitecture.com | 2016
Book Review: Claire Zimmerman’s Photographic Architecture in the Twentieth Century | JSAH | 2016
Aerial videography in The Spirit in Architecture: John Lautner | Documentary film | 2015
"Digital [Tactical] Viscosity" | TxA Interactive | 2014
"Ken Adam’s Architecture and Second Machine Age Los Angeles" | Bigger Than Life: Ken Adam’s Film Design | 2014
"Vision and Crime: The Cineramic Architecture of John Lautner" | Archi.Pop: Mediating Architecture in Popular Culture | 2014
“Vision and Visuality in Architecture: Diller Scofidio + Renfro” | Symposium: https://cargocollective.com/visionandvisuality | 2013
Widescreen Architecture: The Immersive Visuality of John Lautner | Dissertation | 2011
“Positioning Practice in Architecture” | Symposium | 2009
“Shall-O-Space: Neil M. Denari Architects HL23” | Exhibition | 2009
"An Answer Concerning Technology” | Architecture + Phenomenology | 2009
"Multimedia Review: New Films by Murray Grigor" | JSAH | 2009
"All That is Solid Melts into Infrastructure…" | Thought Matters II | 2008
“Televisuality” | Booklet and Symposium: http://soa.syr.edu/proj/televisuality/ | 2008
"A View to Kill For" | Modern Painters | 2008
“John Lautner: Diagramming Vision in Los Angeles” | ArcCA | 2005

Affiliations

Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture | Getty Research Institute (Extended Reader) | Society of Architectural Historians | Society for Cinema and Media Studies

Awards/Achievements

Faculty Merit Awards | Kent State University | 2022, 2018, 2014
President’s Faculty Excellence Award / Kent State University / 2020
ARCHITECT Studio Prize | 2016
Graham Foundation Production and Presentation Grants | 2016 & 2004
Scholar of the Month | Kent State University | 2016
College of the Arts Catalyst Grant | Kent State University | 2015
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Grants | Syracuse University | 2013 & 2009
College of Visual and Performing Arts Interdisciplinary Research Group Fellowship | Syracuse University | 2010
College Art Association Travel Grant | 2006
Edgardo Contini Fellowship | UCLA | 2005
Chancellor’s Dissertation Year Fellowship | UCLA | 2005
Historical Society of Southern California/Haynes Foundation Grant | 2005
Research Mentorship Fellowship | UCLA | 2004
Summer Research Mentorship Fellowship | UCLA | 2003
Elaine Krown Klein Fine Arts Scholarship | UCLA | 2002
Dini Ostrov Architecture Fellowship | UCLA | 2002
Enkeboll Architecture + Urban Design Fellowship | UCLA | 2002