6/29/2009
Architecture Critic Paul Goldberger wins Award
Architecture Critic Paul Goldberger wins the 2009 Gene Burd Urban Journalism Award.
The Urban Communication Foundation is pleased to bestow the 2009 Gene Burd Urban Communication Journalism Award to Paul Goldberger, architecture critic for the New Yorker. This prestigious $5000 award will be presented on August 7th at the annual convention of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication to be held at the Sheraton Boston Hotel.
Paul Goldberger has been writing the New Yorker’s “Sky Line” column since 1997. He holds the Joseph Urban Chair in Design and Architecture at the New School in New York City. His career started at the New York Times where he won the Pulitizer Prize for Distinguished Journalism in 1984. Paul Goldberger is the contemporary extension of Lewis Mumford, Jane Jacobs, and Ada Louise Huxtable.
In his letter supporting Paul Goldberger’s nomination Kent Barwick, President of the Municipal Art Society of New York said “Paul’s greatest contribution is his writing about cities. How architecture hits the pavement, how projects relate to their surroundings, how physical change affects how we feel about places is his genius.”
Darren Walker of the Rockefeller Foundation said that Goldberger is “a great journalist whose writing has been invaluable in promoting a deeper and more intelligent understanding of urbanism, city making and sustainable urban development.”
Blair Kamin, architecture critic for the Chicago Tribune describes Goldberger’s criticism as “at once elevated and street smart, able to convey sweeping cultural meaning yet precise in its description of architectural detail.”
Previous winners of the Gene Burd Urban Journalism Award are Peter Applebome, New York Times; Stewart Brand, Whole Earth Catalog; Joel Garreau, Washington Post; and John King, San Francisco Chronicle.
The Urban Communication Foundation is pleased to bestow the 2009 Gene Burd Urban Communication Journalism Award to Paul Goldberger, architecture critic for the New Yorker. This prestigious $5000 award will be presented on August 7th at the annual convention of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication to be held at the Sheraton Boston Hotel.
Paul Goldberger has been writing the New Yorker’s “Sky Line” column since 1997. He holds the Joseph Urban Chair in Design and Architecture at the New School in New York City. His career started at the New York Times where he won the Pulitizer Prize for Distinguished Journalism in 1984. Paul Goldberger is the contemporary extension of Lewis Mumford, Jane Jacobs, and Ada Louise Huxtable.
In his letter supporting Paul Goldberger’s nomination Kent Barwick, President of the Municipal Art Society of New York said “Paul’s greatest contribution is his writing about cities. How architecture hits the pavement, how projects relate to their surroundings, how physical change affects how we feel about places is his genius.”
Darren Walker of the Rockefeller Foundation said that Goldberger is “a great journalist whose writing has been invaluable in promoting a deeper and more intelligent understanding of urbanism, city making and sustainable urban development.”
Blair Kamin, architecture critic for the Chicago Tribune describes Goldberger’s criticism as “at once elevated and street smart, able to convey sweeping cultural meaning yet precise in its description of architectural detail.”
Previous winners of the Gene Burd Urban Journalism Award are Peter Applebome, New York Times; Stewart Brand, Whole Earth Catalog; Joel Garreau, Washington Post; and John King, San Francisco Chronicle.
6/29/2009
Gene Burd Urban Journalism Award at AEJMC
The Gene Burd Urban Journalism Award is for excellence in reporting, analysis, commentary and criticism that explains and facilitates the resolution and solution of urban issues and problems.
Entries must have a clear urban focus and show an understanding of urban forms, functions, space and place; a keen knowledge of the social, economic and political culture of the city; an impressive professional skill in communication; and evidence that active citizens and public policy-makers were reached and reacted to content of mass, specialized, inter-personal, non-verbal, electronic or print media.
Send entries, reasons for the nomination, and two letters of support by April 1, 2010 to:
The Urban Communication Foundation
6 Fourth Road
Great Neck, NY 11021
or contact listra@optonline.net
The award will be presented at a special ceremony held during the annual meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC). The 2010 meeting will be held in Denver at the Sheraton Denver Hotel, August 4-7.
The jury includes Foundation officers, AEJMC representatives, media and urban policy professionals. Entries will be judged on cumulative record and body of work. Special consideration will be given to urban design writers and architectural critics who bridge scholarship, policy and quality of life issues. The award carries with it a $5000 prize.
Entries must have a clear urban focus and show an understanding of urban forms, functions, space and place; a keen knowledge of the social, economic and political culture of the city; an impressive professional skill in communication; and evidence that active citizens and public policy-makers were reached and reacted to content of mass, specialized, inter-personal, non-verbal, electronic or print media.
Send entries, reasons for the nomination, and two letters of support by April 1, 2010 to:
The Urban Communication Foundation
6 Fourth Road
Great Neck, NY 11021
or contact listra@optonline.net
The award will be presented at a special ceremony held during the annual meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC). The 2010 meeting will be held in Denver at the Sheraton Denver Hotel, August 4-7.
The jury includes Foundation officers, AEJMC representatives, media and urban policy professionals. Entries will be judged on cumulative record and body of work. Special consideration will be given to urban design writers and architectural critics who bridge scholarship, policy and quality of life issues. The award carries with it a $5000 prize.
6th Annual UCF NCA Pre-Conference Announced
We are pleased to announce the 6th Annual Urban Communication Foundation Seminar, which will be scheduled as part of the pre-conference seminar series kicking off the 95th National Communication Association Convention. The convention will be held in Chicago this coming November (November 11-15). Inspired in part by the NCA Convention theme, we hope that participants in this year’s seminar will focus their attention on the multiple forces and discourses of stability and change in the urban ecology. Please check under Seminars for more details.