6/29/2009
Architecture Critic Paul Goldberger wins Award
Architecture Critic Paul Goldberger wins the 2009 Gene Burd Urban Journalism Award.
The Urban Communication Foundation is pleased to bestow the 2009 Gene Burd Urban Communication Journalism Award to Paul Goldberger, architecture critic for the New Yorker. This prestigious $5000 award will be presented on August 7th at the annual convention of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication to be held at the Sheraton Boston Hotel.
Paul Goldberger has been writing the New Yorker’s “Sky Line” column since 1997. He holds the Joseph Urban Chair in Design and Architecture at the New School in New York City. His career started at the New York Times where he won the Pulitizer Prize for Distinguished Journalism in 1984. Paul Goldberger is the contemporary extension of Lewis Mumford, Jane Jacobs, and Ada Louise Huxtable.
In his letter supporting Paul Goldberger’s nomination Kent Barwick, President of the Municipal Art Society of New York said “Paul’s greatest contribution is his writing about cities. How architecture hits the pavement, how projects relate to their surroundings, how physical change affects how we feel about places is his genius.”
Darren Walker of the Rockefeller Foundation said that Goldberger is “a great journalist whose writing has been invaluable in promoting a deeper and more intelligent understanding of urbanism, city making and sustainable urban development.”
Blair Kamin, architecture critic for the Chicago Tribune describes Goldberger’s criticism as “at once elevated and street smart, able to convey sweeping cultural meaning yet precise in its description of architectural detail.”
Previous winners of the Gene Burd Urban Journalism Award are Peter Applebome, New York Times; Stewart Brand, Whole Earth Catalog; Joel Garreau, Washington Post; and John King, San Francisco Chronicle.
The Urban Communication Foundation is pleased to bestow the 2009 Gene Burd Urban Communication Journalism Award to Paul Goldberger, architecture critic for the New Yorker. This prestigious $5000 award will be presented on August 7th at the annual convention of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication to be held at the Sheraton Boston Hotel.
Paul Goldberger has been writing the New Yorker’s “Sky Line” column since 1997. He holds the Joseph Urban Chair in Design and Architecture at the New School in New York City. His career started at the New York Times where he won the Pulitizer Prize for Distinguished Journalism in 1984. Paul Goldberger is the contemporary extension of Lewis Mumford, Jane Jacobs, and Ada Louise Huxtable.
In his letter supporting Paul Goldberger’s nomination Kent Barwick, President of the Municipal Art Society of New York said “Paul’s greatest contribution is his writing about cities. How architecture hits the pavement, how projects relate to their surroundings, how physical change affects how we feel about places is his genius.”
Darren Walker of the Rockefeller Foundation said that Goldberger is “a great journalist whose writing has been invaluable in promoting a deeper and more intelligent understanding of urbanism, city making and sustainable urban development.”
Blair Kamin, architecture critic for the Chicago Tribune describes Goldberger’s criticism as “at once elevated and street smart, able to convey sweeping cultural meaning yet precise in its description of architectural detail.”
Previous winners of the Gene Burd Urban Journalism Award are Peter Applebome, New York Times; Stewart Brand, Whole Earth Catalog; Joel Garreau, Washington Post; and John King, San Francisco Chronicle.