number of columns criticizing the new master plan for the World Trade Center site, calling the plan produced by Daniel Libeskind an embodiment of the "Orwellian condition America's detractors accuse us of embracing: perpetual war for perpetual peace." He stepped down as the architecture critic of The New York Times in 2004 to write the "Icons" column for the Times''' T Style Magazine, among other features. He was replaced by his protégé, Nicolai Ouroussoff. Muschamp was openly gay, and the centrality of gay men in the cultural life of New York City was central to his writing. He continued to write until his death from lung cancer in Manhattan in 2007. A book collection of Muschamp's writings, Hearts of the City: The Selected Writings of Herbert Muschamp,'' was published by Alfred A. Knopf in 2010. References 1947 births 2007 deaths American male non-fiction writers LGBT people from Pennsylvania Deaths from lung cancer in New York (state) Critics employed by The New York Times Writers from Philadelphia People from New York City American architecture critics Journalists from Pennsylvania People associated with The Factory 20th-century American journalists American male journalists