of the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge, saying that both the single-tower cable-stayed scheme (favored by T.Y. Lin) and the single-masted self-anchored suspension design ultimately chosen were incapable of being "a world-famous work of engineering art." Temko was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 1990. He died of apparent congestive heart failure at the Orinda Convalescent Hospital in Orinda, California, in 2006. References External links Obituary and interview New York Times obituary San Francisco Chronicle obituary Armand Vaillancourt Fountain 360 image (JAVA) Armand Vaillancourt Fountain 360 image (QTVR Full screen) American architecture critics Writers from San Francisco 1924 births 2006 deaths Pulitzer Prize for Criticism winners California State University, East Bay faculty University of California, Berkeley faculty Columbia College (New York) alumni University of California, Berkeley alumni Architects from San Francisco Architecture in the San Francisco Bay Area 20th-century American non-fiction writers 21st-century American non-fiction writers 20th-century American male writers American male non-fiction writers United States Navy personnel of World War II United States Navy officers 21st-century American male writers Military personnel from California