Lecture: John Friedman,"The View From Here"

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JOHN FRIEDMAN

John Friedman is a partner of John Friedman Alice Kimm Architects (JFAK), founded in Los Angeles in 1996.  JFAK's culturally literate and urbanistic work spans a wide range of project types and sizes, including K-12 schools, university research and activity centers, commercial ventures, public environments, houses, and housing.  Distinguished for their technological, material, and sustainable intelligence, as well as for their spatial fluidity, quality of light, and social significance, the firm's projects have been recognized with many honors.  Highlights include the LA Design Center; The Resnick Institute and The Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis at Caltech; La Kretz Innovation Campus for the City of Los Angeles' Cleantech Corridor; Koreatown Gateway, and The Roberts Pavilion at Claremont McKenna College.  All of these projects situate JFAK within a multilayered dialogue between culture and technology, performance and form, social responsibility and architectural autonomy – nested in the novel and often ambiguous context that is Los Angeles. 

John holds a BS in Architecture from MIT, an MA in Philosophy and Political Theory from Oxford University, and an MArch  from Harvard University.  He has served as an invited studio faculty at USC and SCI-Arc. He and Alice Kimm were named Emerging Voices by The Architectural League of New York in 2004.  John has been a Fellow of the AIA since 2007.