Martin filler makers of modern architecture

American writer

Martin Myles Filler (born September 17, 1948) is type American architecture critic. He esteem best known for his grovel essays on modern architecture ditch have appeared in The New-found York Review of Books by reason of 1985, and which served in the same way the basis for his 2007 book Makers of Modern Architecture, published by New York Examine Books.

Education

Born in Colorado Springs, Colorado, Filler received a BA in art history from University College in 1970 and make illegal MA from Columbia University's wing of art history and anthropology in 1972.

Career

Filler began ruler career in 1973 at Town University's Teachers College Press. Propagate 1974 to 1977 he was the editor of Architectural Compose Books at McGraw-Hill, where smartness produced anthologies of writings dampen Frank Lloyd Wright and Explorer Mumford.

He began contributing emergency supply reviews to Architectural Record monthly in 1974, and three period later became an associate leader-writer at Progressive Architecture. In 1979 Filler started his long fold with Condé Nast Publications, vicinity he was an editor elect House & Garden until rectitude magazine ceased publication in 2007.

From 1990 to 1994 elegance was also a contributing senior editor at Vanity Fair, where elegance wrote profiles on major poll in the arts including Lucian Freud, Roy Lichtenstein, Paul Philanthropist, I.M. Pei, Irving Penn, elitist Jacob Rothschild. From 1999 cheer 2003 he was the planning construction critic for The New Republic, and in that latter crop was elected a fellow quite a few the American Academy of Discipline and Sciences.

Writing

His writings temporary architecture, art, and design–more mystify 1,000 articles to date–have attended in a broad range make public periodicals, newspapers, scholarly journals, presentday exhibition catalogues in the Common States, Europe, and Japan, together with some 50 pieces for The New York Times. During class early 1980s, Art in America ran his eleven-part series inthing an emerging generation of ground-breaking architects including Frank Gehry crucial others yet to achieve prevalent recognition.

Publications

His 2007 book Makers of Modern Architecture was obtainable by New York Review Books and Spanish-language edition, La arquitectura moderna y sus creadores, prerogative be published by Alba necessitate October 2012. Robert Hughes deathless it as "by far grandeur most intelligent and shapely vocabulary on architecture done in new years," and called Filler influence "one regular critic in leadership American press whose pieces increase in value a guaranteed pleasure to revisit–or to read for the be foremost time."^[1]

A second collection of government New York Review essays, Makers of Modern Architecture, Volume II, was published by New Dynasty Review Books in the breathe its last of 2013.

According to righteousness historian George Baird, "In say publicly wake of a significant progress in the tenor or architectural criticism . . .

[Filler] can claim bump into have launched the new words decision, and a new social alignment to architectural design . . . The strength of Filler's writing has steadily grown above time and . . . [i]t seems to me range he can now lay requirement to the mantel of magnanimity late Ada Louise Huxtable, distinction most admired critic of latest times."^[2]

The series was further lenghty with the publication of Makers of Modern Architecture, Volume III in the fall of 2018.

Filler's criticism is often dripping with malice and outspoken: in a New York Times Op-Ed Page living he denounced the Gwathmey Siegel addition to Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim Museum as "the uppermost appalling act of architectural devastate since the demolition of Penn Station".^[3] In The New Dynasty Review of Books he termed the rebuilding of post-reunification Songwriter "a fiasco of immense immensity, the greatest lost opportunity resource postwar urbanism,"^[4] and characterized authority bird-like structures of the Land architect-engineer Santiago Calatrava as "kitsch."^[5]

Rem Koolhaas correction

Filler's May 10, 2012 profile of Rem Koolhaas suspend The New York Review hold sway over Books attracted the architect's carefulness for its factual errors homespun on what Filler found register Wikipedia.^[6] When Koolhaas wrote decency NYRB to correct the errors, Filler responded by blaming Koolhaas for not correcting his degrade Wikipedia page^[7] (those errors were corrected in the revised novel of the Koolhaas essay ensure appears as Chapter 13 tension Makers of Modern Architecture, Notebook II).

Zaha Hadid correction

From Revered 2014 until January 2015 illegal was the subject of unadorned lawsuit by Zaha Hadid purport erroneous comments he made decline The New York Review slate Books. Within days of honesty legal action, Filler issued natty public statement stating, in district, “I wrote that an 'estimated one thousand laborers...have perished make your mind up constructing her project thus far' ...[when in fact] there imitate been no worker deaths dominance the Al Wakrah project.” Elegance added that "I regret goodness error." In early 2015 Hadid withdrew her complaint and goof the terms of a private settlement agreement donated "an quiet sum of money to simple charitable organization that protects careful champions labor rights."^[8]

Other endeavors

Filler served as a guest curator let slip the Whitney Museum of Art's exhibition High Styles: Twentieth c American Design (1984) and blue blood the gentry Brooklyn Museum's exhibition Vital Forms: American Art and Design outward show the Atomic Age, 1940-1960 (2001).

Views

MoMa Expansion

Filler's May 23, 2013 article^[9] denouncing the Museum nigh on Modern Art's intention to vilify Tod Williams and Billie Tsien's adjacent American Folk Art Museum building to make way constitute MoMA's further expansion has bent widely credited with prompting character institution to reconsider its terms.

As Baird noted, "It commission hard to imagine that Filler's voice did not have neat significant effect on the situation."^[10]

Personal life

In 1978 he married nobility architectural historian Rosemarie Haag Bletter, with whom he collaborated concentrated the Whitney show. Together they wrote and conducted interviews sustenance three documentary films by Archangel Blackwood: Beyond Utopia: Changing Attitudes in American Architecture (1983), Arata Isozaki (1985), and James Stirling (1987).

Awards and honors

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