Michael Kimmelman

Michael Kimmelman is the architecture critic for The New York Times and has focused on issues of public housing, public space, infrastructure, urbanism, environmentalism and community development. Born and raised in New York City, he received degrees from Yale and Harvard, was the Times’ longtime chief art critic and, based in Berlin for several years, created the Abroad column, covering culture, political and social affairs across Europe and the Middle East. The magazine New York recently titled an article about him “The People’s Critic.” He was the Annie Sonnenblick Visiting Writer at Wesleyan University in 2016 and in 2014 the Franke Visiting Fellow at The Whitney Humanities Center at Yale. Most recently he has been focusing on global cities and climate change. He contributes regularly to The New York Review of Books.