Male, US, born 1955-07-30, died 2010-07-02

Associated with the firm network

Kanner Architects


Professional History

Principal Kanner Architects, Westwood, Los Angeles, CA, 1983-2010; his grandfather, I. Herman Kanner, opened the family business, Kanner Architects, in 1946. Stephen headed the company after his father's death in 1998.

Director, American Institute of Architects (AIA), Los Angeles, 2002-2004; President, AIA, Los Angeles, 2004.

Education

B.Arch., University of California, Berkeley (UCB), Berkeley, CA and M.Arch., University of California, Berkeley (UCB), Berkeley, CA, 1980.

Personal

Born in Chandler, AZ, Kanner's family moved back to Los Angeles soon after his birth, where they settled in the Mandeville Canyon neighborhood. He died of cancer at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center on 07/02/2010.

His father was the architect Charles Kanner (d. 1998), who took over Kanner Architects after the death of his father in 1953.


PCAD id: 881