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Do architecture critics matter?
Walter Kerr, the drama critic for The New York Herald Tribune and The New York Times from the 1950s through the 1980s, once said that the difference between a reviewer and a critic is that the former assumes his reader has not seen or read or heard the work in question and the latter assumes he has. In this sense, those who comment for daily newspapers on theater, art, books, or films are almost invariably reviewers, not critics. Such reviewers have long been staples of the popular press. Architectural commentary, however, has not been nearly such a staple.
In the nineteenth century, Montgomery Schuyler wrote discerning commentary for The New York World and The ...
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- Newspaper article from: Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL) September 27, 2007 700+ words
Byline: Blair Kamin Sep. 27--With high...star Wednesday, just as New York City real estate developer...especially evident in New York City, in which star architects...the Skyscraper Museum in New York City. In the Spire sales...
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- Newspaper article from: Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL) June 28, 2007 700+ words
Byline: Blair Kamin Jun. 28--It has been...public as well as members. New York-based McGraw-Hill will...Newspaper, a three-year-old New York-based paper that started...publication. Midwestern focus In New York, where the AIA's New...
- Chicago Tribune Blair Kamin Column.
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News August 1, 2001 700+ words
By Blair Kamin, Chicago Tribune Knight Ridder/Tribune...evaluating internal considerations," the New York City firm of Kohn Pedersen Fox said Friday...more breadth in Chicago than you do in New York," he said, comparing Manhattan's...
- The Chicago Tribune Blair Kamin Architecture column: Classical act Greenberg...
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL) January 20, 2006 700+ words
Byline: Blair Kamin Jan. 20--Allan Greenberg, whose longtime devotion to classical...president: David Scott, a structural engineer and principal at the New York office of Arup, the global engineering firm. He replaces Seattle...
- The Chicago Tribune Blair Kamin Architecture column.
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL) September 14, 2005 700+ words
Byline: Blair Kamin Sep. 14--NEW ORLEANS -- Four words describe the New Orleans that...as stunning as the vertical drama of the collapsing twin towers in New York. Big cities are symbols of human achievement. We do not expect them...
- The Chicago Tribune Blair Kamin Architecture column: Radical design in Akron?...
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL) July 15, 2007 700+ words
Byline: Blair Kamin Jul. 15--They are the Rolling Stones of architecture, aging bad...s most radical architects -- Peter Eisenman and Bernard Tschumi of New York, London's Zaha Hadid and Frank Gehry of Los Angeles. All of them...
- Blair Kamin; Architecture critic, chicago tribune.(Focus: Media)(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: Crain's Chicago Business Bernstein, David January 31, 2005 700+ words
Byline: David Bernstein In a city where architecture is the pre-eminent art form, Blair Kamin's job is pretty important. Mr. Kamin can singlehandedly focus popular attention on Chicago's cityscape-as with his 1999...
- The Chicago Tribune Blair Kamin Architecture column: For Navy Pier, more...
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL) February 7, 2006 700+ words
Byline: Blair Kamin Feb. 7--Mayor Richard M. Daley responded with pabulum when he was asked last week about a Toronto-based consultant's cheesy...