John Kaliski, AIA, Principal, John Kaliski Architects, Los Angeles, California

John Kaliski integrates public concerns and narratives into urban design and architecture. Founder in 2000 of John Kaliski Architects, an architecture and urban design practice located in Los Angeles, California, his projects include affordable housing, urban design plans, and environmental design consulting for government agencies. Present projects include design of the Ocean Park Boulevard Complete Green Street in Santa Monica, the preparation of multi-family and ,mixed-use citywide design guidelines for this same city, and the design and urban design alternatives components of Metro’s East San Fernando Valley Rapidway located on Van Nuys Boulevard in the City of Los Angeles. In 1999 and 2009 Random House published his essays in Everyday Urbanism. This book posits the “everyday” as an interactive framework to critique normative and avant-garde theories of architecture, urban design, and urbanism. A graduate of Yale University (B.A., M.Arch.), Kaliski has taught at the University of Houston, SCI-Arc, The University of Michigan, Cal Poly Pomona, and USC. He resides in mid-city Los Angeles where his civic activities include service as the 2009 president of the American Institute of Architects Los Angeles Chapter, member of the Greater Wilshire Neighborhood Council Land Use Committee, appointed member of the Mayor’s Design Advisory Panel, and architect to the Hollywood Farmer’s Market.

His website.

The reading John offered for his visit is Jonathan Barnett’s essay “Designing Cities without Designing Buildings.”