Paul Goldberger

1 month ago | nyra.nyc | Paul Goldberger

Serious, thoughtful writing about architecture is an increasingly scarce commodity in this age of Instagram and the platform formerly known as Twitter and the decline of legacy media. But the people at New York Review of Architecture don’t seem to know that architecture criticism is supposed to be a thing of the past, because they’re publishing pages and pages of it, as if we were still in its golden age.

Oct 11, 2024 | airmail.news | Paul Goldberger

The arc of an architect’s career tends to be long and slow to rise. Paul Rudolph’s was different.

Sep 6, 2024 | airmail.news | Paul Goldberger

Frank Lloyd Wright designed a handful of skyscrapers in his 70-year career. Only one of them was ever built, the H. C. Price Tower in the unlikely location of Bartlesville, Oklahoma. By the standards of today’s super-tall buildings, Price Tower’s 19 stories barely qualify it as a skyscraper, but it looms large in architectural history since, like so much of what Wright designed, it did not so much follow a common genre as re-invent it.

Apr 15, 2024 | palmbeachdailynews.com | Paul Goldberger

Why not look more closely at some of Palm Beach’s greatest places, like Major Alley and Root Trail, and use them as a model to weave new low-rise streets into downtown?

Oct 27, 2023 | airmail.news | Paul Goldberger

By some measures, the reconstruction of the old Domino Sugar refinery on the Williamsburg waterfront makes no sense at all. It was expensive to build. It contains not a single apartment, let alone anything affordable that might ameliorate New York City’s housing crisis.