Jon Yoder 

is a designer and scholar of Modern architecture and visual media who received his PhD in Architecture from UCLA. He teaches design and theory as Associate Professor at Kent State University and taught previously at Syracuse University and SCI-Arc. His work with Pei Cobb Freed, ZGF Architects and SPF:architects has been published widely, and his research has been supported by grants from the Graham Foundation, Historical Society of Southern California, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, College Art Association, and the American Institute of Architects. Yoder teaches design studios and seminars and organizes events that explore and project alternative models of architectural vision and visuality. These include Photo-Graphic Architecture (2022), Graphic Novels / Novel Architecture (which received an Architect Studio Prize in 2016), Vision and Visuality in Architecture: Diller Scofidio + Renfro (2013), and Televisuality (2008). His first book, Widescreen Architecture: Immersive Media and John Lautner, is forthcoming from Getty Research Institute Publications.