Michael Kimmelman Named New York Times Critic of Architecture

Just shy of a month after the news broke that longtime architecture critic Nicolai Ouroussoff would be leaving his post at the NY Times to pursue writing a book, the paper has announced his soon-to-be replacement. Included as one of many names Architectural Record allowed its readers to vote on while the magazine joined in on the rampant speculation, the Gray Lady’s new critic is Michael Kimmelman. Not poached away from another paper, Kimmelman has been at the Times since his days as a freelance music critic starting in the late 80s, later stepping in as the paper’s lead art critic and most recent taking over the “Abroad” column, after having moved to Berlin in 2007.