Michael Kimmelman (born May 8, 1958) is the architecture critic for The New York Times and has written about public housing, public space, landscape architecture, community development and equity, infrastructure and urban design. He has reported from more than 40 countries and twice been a Pulitzer Prize finalist, most recently in 2018 for his series on climate change and global cities. In March 2014, he was awarded the Brendan Gill Prize for his "insightful candor and continuous scrutiny of New York's architectural environment" that is "journalism at its finest." Life and career Kimmelman was born and raised in Greenwich Village, the son of a physician and a sculptor, both civil rights activists. He attended PS 41 and Friends Seminary in Manhattan, graduated summa cum laude from Yale College with the Alice Derby Lang prize in classics and a degree in history, and received his graduate degree in art history from Harvard University, where he was an Arthur Kingsley Porter Fellow. He was the New York Times''' longtime chief art critic. In 2007, Kimmelman created the Abroad column, as a foreign correspondent covering culture, political and social affairs across Europe and elsewhere. Based in Berlin, he covered the crackdown on cultural freedom in Vladimir Putin's Russia, life in Gaza under Hamas, the rise of the far-right in Hungary and Négritude in France, among other topics. He returned to New York from Europe in autumn 2011 as the paper's architecture critic, and his articles since then, on Hudson Yards, Penn Station, sound, climate change, the New York Public Library, the World Trade Center, transit and infrastructure, redevelopment after Hurricane Sandy, as well as on Syrian refugee camps as do-it-yourself cities, cultural identity in Baghdad and public space and protest in Turkey, Rio and post-revolutionary Cairo, among other issues at home and overseas, have helped to reshape policy and the public debate about urbanism, architecture and architectural criticism.Gus Delaporte "Sign of the Times: Michael Kimmelman on Madison Square Garden", The New York Observer, July 16, 2013. New York Magazine titled an article in 2013 about him "The People's Critic". As a pianist, he has performed as a soloist and with chamber groups in concert series in New York and around Europe. Early in his career, he was an editor at I.D. magazine and architecture critic for New England Monthly. Author of Portraits, The Accidental Masterpiece and The Intimate City, he has hosted various