Editing Herbert Muschamp (section)

== Career ==
During this period, he began writing architectural criticism for various magazines, including ''[[Vogue (magazine)|Vogue]]'', ''[[House & Garden (magazine)|House & Garden]]'', and ''[[Art Forum]]''. He was appointed the architecture critic for ''[[The New Republic]]'' in 1987.

Muschamp became the architecture critic for ''[[The New York Times]]'' in 1992, succeeding [[Paul Goldberger]]. During his controversial tenure at the ''Times'', Muschamp rose, according to [[Nicolai Ouroussoff]],<ref>Nicolai Ouroussoff. [https://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/03/arts/design/04muschamp.html?_r=1&ref=obituaries&oref=slogin ''Herbert Muschamp, 59, Architecture Critic, Dies'']. The New York Times. Published: October 3, 2007. Retrieved on October 6, 2007.</ref> to preeminence as the nation's foremost [[judge]] of the architecture world. His writing championed now-famous architects such as [[Frank Gehry]], [[Rem Koolhaas]], [[Zaha Hadid]] and [[Jean Nouvel]], as well as architects that he regarded as rising talents, including [[Greg Lynn]], Lindy Roy, Jesse Reiser, Nanako Umemoto and [[Casagrande & Rintala]].<ref>Herbert Muschamp. [https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B05E3DF113BF930A15754C0A9669C8B63&sec=technology&spon=&pagewanted=3 ''Architecture's Claim on the Future: The Blob '']. The New York Times. Published: July 23, 2000</ref>

His detractors, noted the ''[[New York Observer]]'', argued that his conflicts of interest, from socializing with his subjects frequently, and his "iconoclasm and obscurantism, his unapologetic dilettantism" were along with his "very public break downs" a source of a "fall from grace."<ref>Clay Risen. [https://web.archive.org/web/20071013053743/http://www.observer.com/node/49446 ''As Muschamp Goes, Angry Adversaries Ready for Revenge'']. New York Observer. Published: June 27, 2004.</ref>

Muschamp was a lover of cities. One of his most often quoted lines came from a 2004 review: "A city is never more fully human than when expertise – our own or someone else's – allows us access to ebullience, lightness and delight."<ref>Herbert Muschamp. [https://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/03/nyregion/an-appraisal-for-lower-manhattan-tower-offers-a-residential-stairway-to-the-sky.html ''An Appraisal - For Lower Manhattan, Tower Offers a Residential Stairway to the Sky'']. The New York Times. Published: March 3, 2004</ref> He spent a 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."<ref>Herbert Muschamp. [https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B05E5DD163BF935A35751C0A9659C8B63 ''Balancing Reason and Emotion in Twin Towers Void'']. The New York Times. Published: February 6, 2003</ref>

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 [[coming out|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.<ref name="archpaper1"/>