Business & Labor
New York Times Architecture Critic Herbert Muschamp to Leave
His Post
(archrecord.construction.com - 06/11/04)
By Sam
Lubell
New York Times architecture critic
Herbert Muschamp will be moving to a new beat, confirms sources
within the newspaper.
Culture Editor Jonathan Landman told
RECORD that Muschamp has decided “he’s been
doing it long enough, and he wants to do something else.”
Landman assured that Muschamp’s
move was of his own volition, and that he was not at all displeased
with the critic’s performance. “I thought he was
a great critic who engaged a lot of people in the subject
who never knew they were interested in it. The thing about
critics is that some people agree with them, and some don’t.”
Landman did not know when the move would
take place. He also said that Muschamp had been thinking of
the change for some time, although Landman could not remember
the first time they had spoken about the topic. The last conversation
came the week of June 7. At press time, New York Magazine
reported that the Times was in correspondence with Nicolai
Ouroussoff, currently the Los Angeles Times architecture
critic, to take the post from Muschamp in the fall. The magazine
also noted that Muschamp would be writing primarily for the
New York Times Magazine. Neither Muschamp nor Ouroussoff
could yet be reached for comment.
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