Architectural critic and contributing editor at Vanity Fair magazine, he holds the Joseph Urban Chair in Design and Architecture at the New School in New York City; author of Building Art: The Life and Work of Frank Gehry; former architecture critic for the New Yorker (1997-2011)
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