Article: Good genes: like his father and grandfather before him, Stephen Kanner designs architecture that's modern, playful, and elegant.(cross lines)

IN 1946, WHEN I. HERMAN Kanner moved from Saint Louis to Los Angeles, he set himself up as Kanner Architects and started designing shoe stores for Edison Brothers. After he died in 1953, control of the firm passed to his son Charles--who, in turn, had a son, Stephen. This third Kanner followed in his forefathers' footsteps, graduating with a master's degree in architecture from the University of California, Berkeley, and working at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill in LA. and Cambridge Seven Associates in Massachusetts. He joined the family firm in 1982 and took over officially in 1998, the year that the monograph Pop Architecture: Kanner Architects, Los Angeles was published. ...

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