Jon Yoder, Ph.D.
College of Architecture & Environmental Design
Associate Professor
Campus:
Kent
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 鈥淕raphic Novels / Novel Architecture鈥 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
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
Theory and Criticism | Media and technology | Visual Culture | Digital Fabrication
Publications
- Widescreen Architecture: Immersive Media and John Lautner / Book (forthcoming)
- 鈥淒esign vs. History: Materializing Theory After the Post-Linguistic Turn鈥 | Architectural Theory Now? (forthcoming)
- 鈥淎rchitecture After Affect鈥 / Architecture, Film, and the Inbetween / 2023
- 鈥淎erial Viscosity: The Architecture of Drone Photography鈥 / Virtual Interiorities / 2022
- 鈥淧hoto-Graphic Architecture鈥 | Symposium | 2020
- 鈥淧laying in the World, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Fetish鈥 | Archinect.com | 2019
- 鈥淎tlas of Graphic Novel Tectonics鈥 | Flat Out | 2017
- 鈥淕raphic Novels / Novel Architecture鈥 | Symposium: http://graphicnovelarchitecture.com | 2016
- Book Review: Claire Zimmerman鈥檚 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鈥檚 Architecture and Second Machine Age Los Angeles" | Bigger Than Life: Ken Adam鈥檚 Film Design | 2014
- "Vision and Crime: The Cineramic Architecture of John Lautner" | Archi.Pop: Mediating Architecture in Popular Culture | 2014
- 鈥淰ision and Visuality in Architecture: Diller Scofidio + Renfro鈥 | Symposium: https://cargocollective.com/visionandvisuality | 2013
- Widescreen Architecture: The Immersive Visuality of John Lautner | Dissertation | 2011
- 鈥淧ositioning Practice in Architecture鈥 | Symposium | 2009
- 鈥淪hall-O-Space: Neil M. Denari Architects HL23鈥 | Exhibition | 2009
- "An Answer Concerning Technology鈥 | Architecture + Phenomenology | 2009
- "Multimedia Review: New Films by Murray Grigor" | JSAH | 2009
- "All That is Solid Melts into Infrastructure鈥" | Thought Matters II | 2008
- 鈥淭elevisuality鈥 | Booklet and Symposium: http://soa.syr.edu/proj/televisuality/ | 2008
- "A View to Kill For" | Modern Painters | 2008
- 鈥淛ohn Lautner: Diagramming Vision in Los Angeles鈥 | ArcCA | 2005
Affiliations
Awards/Achievements
- Faculty Merit Awards | 5X社区 | 2022, 2018, 2014
- President鈥檚 Faculty Excellence Award / 5X社区 / 2020
- ARCHITECT Studio Prize | 2016
- Graham Foundation Production and Presentation Grants | 2016 & 2004
- Scholar of the Month | 5X社区 | 2016
- College of the Arts Catalyst Grant | 5X社区 | 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鈥檚 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