![]() He has authored many books, teaches at the New School, and lectures widely around the country on architecture, design, historic preservation, and cities. For 15 years, he was architecture critic for The New Yorker. Goldberger, a contributing editor at Vanity Fair, began his career at The New York Times, where he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished criticism for his writing on architecture. ![]() ![]() “So even though it was architecture, it was different.” “I had never written a biography before,” he said. ![]() Goldberger’s book before this one, a biography of the architect Frank Gehry, was also a departure from his other publications, mostly essays or histories, sometimes with a concentration on a particular modern master like Charles Gwathmey or Richard Meier, but without as much biographical material. “I felt like doing something different,” he said. But how to capture that magnificent moment when one first glimpses the outrageous, impossible green of the baseball diamond, when one emerges from a tunnel of dark alleys and asphalt urbanism into an area so colossal and all-encompassing that it is indescribable unless you’ve actually been there? Paul Goldberger, Pulitzer Prize winning author and architectural critic, has shed some light on the subject with his latest book, “Ballpark: Baseball in the American City,” a look not only at the game and the stadiums at which it is played, but at the psychological, sociological, and economic effect on the cities that are lucky enough to have their own team and arena. ![]()
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