Philip Nobel is an architect, architectural critic, and author who has written about architecture at the New York Times, Curbed, Metropolis,[1][2] Artforum, Architectural Digest and other publications.[3][4][5][6] He discussed disposable diaper design on Public Radio International.[7] He lives in Brooklyn[8] and is divorced with children.[9]

Philip Nobel
NationalityAmerican
GenreNon-fiction
SubjectArchitecture

A Kirkus Reviews writeup described his book Sixteen Acres about redevelopment efforts at the World Trade Center site known as Ground Zero as "unsparingly showing New York City’s power brokers taking a nation-bending hole in the ground and mixing into it a witch’s brew of ego, politics, greed, and amnesia".[10]

Nobel has stated that protest and organizing have moved online. He stated malls are becoming a place of civic engagement and training grounds for future urbanism.[11]

Bibliography

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  • Sixteen Acres : Architecture and the Outrageous Struggle for the Future of Ground Zero (2005), about the redevelopment of Ground Zero, the site of the World Trade Center[8][12]
  • New New York (2011), essay accompanying photographs by Jake Rajs.[13]
  • The Future of the Skyscraper : SOM Thinkers Series, 2015 Edition, one of several authors[14]
  • SHoP, introduction[15]

References

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  1. ^ "Philip Nobel, Author at Metropolis".
  2. ^ A Nobel Prize: Curbed Adds Not One But Two Architecture Critics | Observer
  3. ^ "Philip Nobel". April 2, 2010.
  4. ^ "Conversations in Context: Gregg Pasquarelli + Philip Nobel". Bustler.
  5. ^ "The Eternal City". Bookforum.
  6. ^ "Reviewer's Remorse, Not Philip Nobel". Boston.com.
  7. ^ "Design for the real world: diapers". Public Radio International.
  8. ^ a b "Philip Nobel | Authors | Macmillan". US Macmillan.
  9. ^ "Majikthise : World's Worst Person: Philip Nobel". majikthise.typepad.com.
  10. ^ "SIXTEEN ACRES by Philip Nobel | Kirkus Reviews" – via www.kirkusreviews.com.
  11. ^ Kolb, David (January 1, 2008). Sprawling Places. University of Georgia Press. p. 156 – via Internet Archive. philip nobel.
  12. ^ "Perusall". app.perusall.com.
  13. ^ Rajs, Jake; Nobel, Philip (May 5, 2011). "NEW NEW YORK". New York, New York : THE MONCELLI PRESS – via Trove.
  14. ^ Nobel, Philip; Vanderbilt, Tom; Yglesias, Matthew; Lind, Diana; Self, Will; Badger, Emily; Despommier, Dickson D.; Govan, Michael (May 5, 2015). The Future of the Skyscraper. Metropolis Books. ISBN 9781938922787 – via Google Books.
  15. ^ "Philip Nobel". thamesandhudson.com.
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