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Nationality
USA
Education
Yale University
Spouse
Susan L. Solomon
Role
Architectural Critic
Name
Paul Goldberger
Born
December 4, 1950 (age 73) (
1950-12-04
)
Passaic, New Jersey
Alma mater
Yale University (B.A., 1972)
Occupation
architectural critic, journalist, educator
Awards
Pulitzer Prize for Distinguished Criticism (1984)
Vincent Scully Prize (2012) the leading figure in architecture
Children
Ben Goldberger, Adam Goldberger, Alexander Goldberger
Parents
Edna Kronman, Morris Goldberger
Books
Why Architecture Matters, Building Art: The Life and, Up from zero, New York Mid‑Century: Post‑War, The Thaw Generation: Coming o
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Susan L Solomon, Annie Cohen‑Solal, Robert Gottlieb, Frank Gehry, Lyudmila Alexeyeva
Reflections on architecture criticism with paul goldberger conversations with history
Paul Goldberger (born December 4, 1950) is an American architectural critic and educator, and a Contributing Editor for Vanity Fair magazine. From 1997 to 2011 he was the Architecture Critic for The New Yorker where he wrote the magazine's celebrated "Sky Line" column. He also holds the Joseph Urban Chair in Design and Architecture at The New School in New York City. He was formerly Dean of the Parsons School of Design, a division of The New School. The Huffington Post has said that he is "arguably the leading figure in architecture criticism".
Frank gehry at the parsons table with paul goldberger the new school
Life and career
Goldberger was born in Passaic, New Jersey, the son of Morris Goldberger and Edna Kronman, and he grew up in distinctly low-rise Nutley, New Jersey, where he graduated from Nutley High School. He subsequently attended and graduated from Yale University in 1972.
He began his career at The New York Times, where in 1984 his architecture criticism was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Distinguished Criticism, the highest award in journalism.
He is the author of several books, most recently "Building Art: The Life and Work of Frank Gehry," published in 2015 by Alfred A. Knopf; Why Architecture Matters, published in 2009 by Yale University Press; Building Up and Tearing Down: Reflections on the Age of Architecture, a collection of his architecture essays published in 2009 by Monacelli Press, and Christo and Jeanne-Claude, published in 2010 by Taschen. In 2008 Monacelli published Beyond the Dunes: A Portrait of the Hamptons, which he produced in association with the photographer Jake Rajs. Paul Goldberger’s chronicle of the process of rebuilding Ground Zero, entitled UP FROM ZERO: Politics, Architecture, and the Rebuilding of New York, which was published by Random House in the fall of 2004, and brought out in a new, updated paperback edition in 2005, was named one of The New York Times Notable Books for 2004. Paul Goldberger has also written The City Observed: New York, The Skyscraper, On the Rise: Architecture and Design in a Post-Modern Age, Above New York, and The World Trade Center Remembered.
He lectures widely around the country on the subject of architecture, design, historic preservation and cities, and he has taught at both the Yale School of Architecture and the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley in addition to The New School. His writing has received numerous awards in addition to the Pulitzer, including the President’s Medal of the Municipal Art Society of New York, the medal of the American Institute of Architects and the Medal of Honor of the New York Landmarks Preservation Foundation, awarded in recognition of what the Foundation called "the nation’s most balanced, penetrating and poetic analyses of architecture and design." In May 1996, New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani presented him with the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission’s Preservation Achievement Award in recognition of the impact of his writing on historic preservation in New York. In 1993, he was named a Literary Lion, the New York Public Library’s tribute to distinguished writers. In 2007, he was presented with the Ed Bacon Foundation’s Award for Professional Excellence, named in honor of Philadelphia’s legendary planner, and in 2009 he received the Gene Burd Urban Journalism Award from the Urban Communication Foundation. In 2012 he received the Vincent Scully Prize, given annually by the National Building Museum in Washington, DC to a person whose work represents "exemplary practice, scholarship or criticism in architecture, historic preservation or urban design." Previous winners have included Jane Jacobs, Prince Charles, the Aga Khan, and Robert A.M. Stern. In 2012 he was also awarded the Gold Medal of the National Institute of Social Sciences.
He has been awarded honorary doctoral degrees by Pratt Institute, the University of Miami, Kenyon College, the College of Creative Studies and the New York School of Interior Design for his work as a critic and cultural commentator on design. He appears frequently on film and television to discuss art, architecture, and cities, including a program on the architect Benjamin Latrobe for PBS. He has also served as a special consultant and advisor on architecture and planning matters to several major cultural and educational institutions, including the Morgan Library in New York, the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., the Carnegie Science Center in Pittsburgh, the New York Public Library and Cornell and Harvard universities. He serves as special advisor to the jury for the Richard A. Driehaus Prize, a $200,000 prize awarded annually for traditional architecture and urbanism. He is a graduate of Yale University, and is a trustee of Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio; the National Trust for Historic Preservation in Washington, D.C.; the Forum for Urban Design, and the New York Stem Cell Foundation.
Personal life and family
He is married to Susan L. Solomon, who is the co-founder and CEO of New York Stem Cell Foundation, a research institute promoting stem cell research. They are the parents of three sons: Adam, a composer for film and television in Los Angeles, known professionally as Tree Adams; Ben, an assistant managing editor at Time magazine in New York, and Alex, who works for the Bill Simmons Media Group in Los Angeles. He resides in New York City and in Amagansett, New York.
Professional experience
Joseph Urban Chair of Design and Architecture, The New School, 2006 – present
Dean, Parsons The New School for Design, 2004–2006
Architecture critic, The New Yorker, 1997 – present
Architecture critic, The New York Times, 1973–1997
Chief cultural correspondent, The New York Times, 1994–1997
Cultural news editor, The New York Times, 1990–1994
Contributing editor and design columnist, Metropolis, 2002–2004
“Henry Hobson Richardson and the Making of Modern Sacred Space,” Trinity Church, Boston, November 18, 2009
“Frank Lloyd Wright’s Beth Sholom and the Making of a Modern Synagogue,” at 50th anniversary observance, November 15, 2009
“Frank Lloyd Wright, Taliesin, and the Future of a Legacy,” Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, Guggenheim Museum, June 17, 2009
“Frank Lloyd Wright, Sacred Space, and the Challenge of the Modern: Remarks on the Centennial of Unity Temple”, March 26, 2009
“Thoughts on Sustainable Design,” California Academy of Science, March 12, 2009
“Revisiting Learning from Las Vegas,” L’Enfant Lecture, National Building Museum, December 2, 2008
“Portland and the Challenge of Making a City in the Twenty-first Century,” University of Oregon, November 20, 2008
“Preservation Is Not Just About the Past,” National Trust for Historic Preservation conference, Tulsa, October 23, 2008
“Constructing the Ineffable: Contemporary Sacred Architecture,” closing remarks delivered at symposium on sacred architecture, co-sponsored by Yale School of Architecture and Yale Divinity School, October 29, 2008
“Forty Years of Chicago Landmarks,” Commission on Chicago Landmarks, Chicago Public Library, May 15, 2008
“Cities, Planning and Las Vegas,” keynote address, American Planning Association, Las Vegas, May 1, 2008
“On Architecture, Public Schools, and the Making of Community,” School Building Expo, Schaumburg, Illinois, April 3, 2008
“Is There a Jewish Architecture?” keynote address, Council of American Jewish Museums, Spertus Institute for Jewish Learning and Leadership, Chicago, January 27, 2008
“Cities, Time and Architecture,” Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, December 13, 2007
“Architecture, Bowdoin, and the Art Museum in the Twenty-first Century,” Dedication Address, Walker Art Museum, Bowdoin College, October 12, 2007
“Toronto, the Waterfront, and the Urban Future,” address to annual meeting, Waterfront Toronto, October 2, 2007
“Cities, Place and Cyberspace: Sustainability and Meaning in the Urban Environment,” University of Calgary, September 26, 2007
“Nantucket, Preservation, and the Future,” Nantucket Preservation Trust, July 27, 2007
“Remarks on the Opening of the Glass House,” National Trust for Historic Preservation, New Canaan, Connecticut, June 21, 2007
“Architecture, Museums and Authenticity,” Art Institute of Chicago, April 28, 2007
“On Philip Johnson,” Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, April 23, 2007
“Cities, Place and Cyberspace: Reshaping Rochester and the Public Realm,” Rochester Community Design Center, April 16, 2007
“Does Architecture Matter? Thoughts on Building, Design, and the Quality of Life,” Price Tower, Bartlesville, Oklahoma, April 5, 2007
“Remarks on the GSA Design Excellence Program,” GSA Design Awards, Washington, March 29, 2007
“Yale and the Promise of the Modern,” address on the reopening of the Yale University Art Gallery, December 9. 2006
“Philip Johnson and the Glass House,” address to Board of Trustees, National Trust for Historic Preservation, May 20, 2006
“Ground Zero, Five Years Later,” Johns Hopkins University, April 18, 2006
“Design, Education, and Social Responsibility,” address delivered at Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, and Tsinghua University, Beijing, June 15–16, 2005
“Landmarks Preservation at Forty,” The New School, New York City, April 26, 2005
“Do Art and Architecture Matter? Thoughts on Buildings, Social Responsibility, and the World After September 11,” Windmueller Lecture, Virginia Commonwealth University, November 10, 2004
“The Aims of Education,” New School Convocation, September 9, 2004
“Hartford and the Public Realm,” address to Connecticut, Humanities Council, Simsbury, April 13, 2004
“Architecture Criticism: Does it Matter?” Butler University, Indianapolis, Indiana, November 12, 2003
“Architecture, the Morgan Library, and the Twenty-first Century,” Morgan Library, New York, November 14, 2003
“Toshiko Mori/Frank Lloyd Wright,” Albright-Knox Museum, Buffalo, New York, November 7, 2003
“Reflections on the Ancient/Modern Quarrel,” Princeton University, October 29, 2003
“After the World Trade Center: The Struggle to Make a City for Our Time,” Poynter Lecture, Yale University, November 11, 2002
“The Trauma of Rebuilding,” keynote address to Regional Plan Association Regional Assembly, April 26, 2002
Mary and Jim Semans Lecture (untitled), Duke University Museum of Art, March 1, 2002
“Tadao Ando,” St. Louis Museum of Art, October 15, 2001
"New York and the New Urbanism,” address to Congress for the New Urbanism, June 9, 2001
“The Design Professions and the Media,” Loeb Fellowship Symposium, Harvard University, April 27, 2001
“Thoughts On the Centennial of Frank Lloyd Wright’s ‘Art and Craft of the Machine’ Lecture,” Hull House Museum, Chicago Cultural Center, March 1, 2001
“Cities, Place and Cyberspace,” University of California, Berkeley, February 1, 2001
“Is There A Future for Cities?” Wassong Lecture, Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut, October 30, 2000
Keynote address, American Society of Interior Designers Conference, Corning New York, September 22, 2000
“Zoning and Architecture,” symposium on revised New York City zoning, Newman Institute, Baruch College, City University of New York, September 15, 2000
“The Urban Impulse,” Abcoa Partnership for Community, Abcoa, Florida, April 18, 2000
“Design Lessons from the Late Twentieth Century,” Seattle Design Center, March 2, 2000
“Architecture at the End of the Twentieth Century,” keynote address, American Institute of Architects conference, Boulder, Colorado, November 10, 1999
“The Architecture of a Campus,” Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa, September 24, 1999
“Architecture, Technology and Community at the End of the Twentieth Century,” Rhodes College, Memphis, September 23, 1999
“Is There Still a Reason for Cities?” Henry Hart Rice Urban Policy Forum, New York University, April 12, 1999
“Desert Cities,” Arizona State University, Phoenix, February 19, 1999
“Technology, Community, and Common Ground,” Columbia University School of Social Work, June 13, 1998
“The Future of Cuban Cities,” Florida International University, Miami, Florida, June 6, 1998
“Does Design Matter? Thoughts on College Commencement,” Center for Creative Studies, Detroit, May 14, 1998
“Charleston: In Search of Authenticity,” Historic Charleston Foundation, November 7, 1997
“Who Needs Cities? Urban Life and the Promise of Community,” Chautauqua Institution, July 24, 1997
“Organizational Futures by Design,” symposium speaker, Haas School of Business, University of California, June 20–21, 1997
“Workplace Productivity, Cybertechnology, and Aesthetics,” International Design Congress, Jackson Hole, Wyoming, May 21, 1997
“Newport: Past and Future,” Newport Historical Society, Newport, Rhode Island, May 29, 1997
“Tribalization vs. Homogenization: Less Community or Different Community?” Forbes Forum on Management and Policy, Palm Beach, Florida, March 21, 1997
“From Teapots to Skyscrapers: The Pursuit of the Fashionable Object,” design symposium, D & D Building, New York, October 9, 1996
“The Power of the Past: Can Preservation Save Communities?” Cornerstones, Santa Fe, New Mexico, July 17, 1996
American Academy of Psychoanalysis, “Psychoanalytic Reflections Upon Imagery and Architecture,” symposium discussant in session on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, May 4, 1996
“Post-modernism and its Relationship to Architecture,” Lebanon Valley College, Annville, Pennsylvania, March 26, 1996
Lecture (untitled), The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., March 7, 1996
“Thoughts on Social Responsibility, Creativity, and Frank Lloyd Wright,” Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio Foundation, Oak Park, Illinois, February 28, 1996
“On I.M. Pei,” Municipal Art Society, New York City, February 27, 1996
“The City and the Waterfront in a Post-Urban Age,” Cleveland Museum of Art, November 8, 1995
McDermott Lecture (untitled) University of Dallas, November 2, 1995
“Asian Cities and Western Cities at the End of the Twentieth Century,” World Architecture Triennale, Nara, Japan, May 20, 1995
“Is There Still a Reason for Cities?” National Humanities Center, Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina, April 22, 1995
“Architecture and Social Responsibility,” University of Notre Dame School of Architecture, November 2, 1994
“Architecture, Authenticity, and the Urban Impulse,” YKK Forum, Osaka, Japan, June 30, 1994
“Architecture as a Reflection of Public Policy and Social Responsibility,” Convocation Speaker, Lawrence University, Appleton, Wisconsin, January 13, 1994
Lecture, Ylvisaker Symposium, Ford Foundation, New York, November 8, 1993
“Creating and Re-creating the City,” St. John’s University, Queens, New York, March 27, 1993
“Museums and Architecture,” symposium speaker, Cincinnati Museum of Art, January 29, 1993
“Chicago Architecture,” as visiting fellow, University of Chicago, Spring 1992
“On Columbus, Indiana,” keynote address to meeting of American Institute of Architects, Columbus, Indiana, October 25, 1991
Lecture (untitled), Washington University, St. Louis, March 27, 1991
Lecture (untitled), Chicago Historical Society, March 21, 1991
Lecture (untitled) St. Paul’s School, Concord, New Hampshire, February 4, 1991
“On Carmel and the Preservation of Place,” Robinson Jeffers Tor House Foundation, Carmel, California, October 20, 1990
“Los Angeles and the Pacific Rim,” University of California at Los Angeles School of Architecture, November 16, 1989
“Architecture, Real Estate, and the City,” keynote address to Goldman Sachs real estate investment conference, June 7, 1989
“Teaching About Architecture,” National Art Education Association, Washington, D.C., April 12, 1989
“Buildings Against Cities: The Making of Places,” Behrend Lecture, Philadelphia Museum of Art, December 11, 1988
“Buildings Versus Cities: The Struggle for a Sense of Place,” Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio, May 2, 1988
Keynote speaker, “Remaking Cities” conference, American Institute of Architects, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, March 2–5, 1988
“The Art In Structures” symposium speaker, Duke University School of Engineering Durham, North Carolina, January 28, 1988
“Architecture, History and Confusion,” Beloit College, Beloit, Wisconsin, September 30, 1987
Lecture (untitled) for opening of Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, October 18, 1985
