Paul Goldberger

Background

Paul Jesse Goldberger was born on December 4, 1950 in Passaic, New Jersey, the son of Morris Goldberger (1924-2006), an English teacher, and Edna Goldberger (née Kronman, 1924-2009){{cite web

He graduated in 1972 from Yale University, where he studied art history, and has honorary doctoral degrees from the Pratt Institute and the New York School of Interior Design; a Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), University Miami, 2004, and a Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Kenyon College, 2005.

A resident of the Midtown East in Manhattan, Goldberger is widowed by Susan L. Solomon (1951-2022){{cite news

Career

Shortly after starting as a reporter at The New York Times in 1972, Goldberger was assigned to write the obituary of noted architect Louis Kahn, who had died suddenly of a heart attack in Penn Station. In 1973, he was named an architecture critic, working alongside Ada Louise Huxtable until 1982.

In 1984, Goldberger won the Pulitzer Prize for his architecture criticism in the Times, and in 1996, New York City mayor Rudolph Giuliani presented Goldberger with the city's Preservation Achievement Award in recognition of the impact of his work on historic preservation.

Goldberger is also the author of several books, including Up from Zero: Politics, Architecture, and the Rebuilding of New York and The City Observed, New York, a Guide to the Architecture of Manhattan.

In a May 2005 New Yorker column, he suggested that the best solution for rebuilding at Ground Zero would focus on residential use mixed with cultural and memorial elements.

From July 2004 until June 2006, Goldberger served as the Dean of Parsons The New School for Design, an art and design college of The New School. He currently remains the Joseph Urban Professor of Design at the institution.

Works

Books

• Up from Zero: Politics, Architecture, and the Rebuilding of New York.
• The City Observed, New York, a Guide to the Architecture of Manhattan (1979). Vintage Books, .
• Why Architecture Matters (2009). Yale University Press, .
• Building Up and Tearing Down: Reflections on the Age of Architecture (2009). The Monacelli Press, .
• Building Art: The Life and Work of Frank Gehry (2015). Knopf
• Ballpark: Baseball in the American City (2019). Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group,

Articles

• Reports on a joint lecture by Harold Varmus and his son Jacob Varmus.

References

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8. Rao, Mallika. (April 2, 2012). "Paul Goldberger Moves to ''Vanity Fair'', Eulogies for Architecture Criticism Not Far Behind". [[The Huffington Post]].
9. Goldberger, Paul. [https://www.nytimes.com/1976/01/25/archives/new-jersey-weekly-the-palisades-beauty-and-the-beast-the-palisades.html "The Palisades: Beauty and the Beast; The Palisades: Beauty and the Beast"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', January 25, 1976. Accessed July 10, 2011. "Paul Goldberger, architect critic of The New York Times, grew up amid the low-rise buildings of Nutley."
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16. "Kenyon College Board of Trustees".
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