[1] Kanner was born in 1955 in Chandler, Arizona, but raised in the Mandeville Canyon neighborhood in Los Angeles.
[1] His most recent projects included the Metro Hollywood Transit Village on Hollywood Boulevard, a lower income housing complex located at 26th Street and Santa Monica Boulevard; and the conversion of a commercial building into a luxury apartment building in Hollywood called Sunset Vine Tower.
[1] The Los Angeles Times described Kanner as "something of an outlier among architects of his generation for the sheer volume and range of his output.
"[2] Later projects were influenced by googie architecture[3] , postmodernism and Pop art, including a 2009 United Oil station at La Brea and Slauson evoking a stack interchange and an In-N-Out restaurant in Westwood, Los Angeles, California.
[2] Kanner died from cancer at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center on July 2, 2010, at the age of 54.