Herbert Muschamp

Herbert Muschamp ( born November 28, 1947 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, † October 3, 2007 in New York City ) was an American architecture critic.

Life

Muschamp graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, moved to two years in the studio, " The Factory " by Andy Warhol in New York City. Later, he studied architecture at the Parsons The New School for Design. After a stay at the AA in London, he returned to New York and taught at the " Parsons ". He was director of the graduate program for architecture and design criticism.

Since the mid- 1980s he wrote for publications such as Vogue, House & Garden and Artforum; In 1987, he became the first salaried architecture critic in the United States with the magazine The New Republic.

He succeeded Paul Goldberger in the New York Times in 1992. Muschamp was the most important critic of American architecture world. His writings and articles helped architects such as Frank Gehry, Rem Koolhaas, Zaha Hadid, Richard Meier and Jean Nouvel and young talents such as Greg Lynn, Lindy Roy, Jesse Reiser and Nanako Umemoto worldwide fame and reputation. In 2004 he resigned from his position and shifted to design columns for the Times Style Magazine.

Muschamp died in October 2007 at the age of 59 of complications from lung cancer.

Writings

• Herbert Muschamp: File Under Architecture, MIT Press 1975, ISBN 0-262-13110-2
• Herbert Muschamp: Man About Town: Frank Lloyd Wright in New York City, MIT Press 1985, ISBN 0-262-63100-8
• Herbert Muschamp: James Wines - Museum of Modern Art, Frankfurt, Architectural Association Publications, 1985, ISBN 0-904503-62-3
• Herbert Muschamp, Mark Perrott: Hope Abandoned: Eastern State Penitentiary, Pennsylvania Prison Society 2000, ISBN 0-9670455-0-9
• Herbert Muschamp, Russell Panczenko, Germano Celant: Richard Artschwager: Public, University of Wisconsin Press 2002, ISBN 0-932900-28-3
• Herbert Muschamp, Martin E. Marty, Edward Rothstein: Visions of Utopia, Oxford University Press 2004, ISBN 0-19-517161-6