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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Infobox person Inga Saffron (born November 9, 1957) is an American journalist and architecture critic. She won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism while writing for The Philadelphia Inquirer.[1]

Early life and education

Saffron was raised in Levittown, New York and attended New York University.[2] She studied abroad in France for one year, then decided not to return to school and moved to Dublin.

Career

In Ireland, she wrote for local publications and worked as a freelancer with Newsweek.[3] Upon returning to the United States, Saffron wrote for the Courier-News in Somerville, New Jersey.[1]

The Philadelphia Inquirer

In 1984, she joined The Philadelphia Inquirer as the InquirerШаблон:'s Moscow correspondent, and served in this capacity until 1998. Saffron covered the Yugoslav Wars and First Chechen War.[4] Beginning in 1999, she became the InquirerШаблон:'s architecture columnist, writing "Changing Skyline", an architecture column.[2]

Saffron gained notoriety for a 2020 article entitled "Buildings Matter, Too," in which she said destruction of property was not a valid response to the George Floyd incident. Saffron still writes for The Philadelphia Inquirer, which she joined in 1985 as a suburban reporter. She spent five years in Eastern Europe as a correspondent for the Inquirer.

Havard University Graduate School of Design

She was a Loeb Fellow at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design in 2012.[5][6]

Awards

Since becoming The Philadelphia InquirerШаблон:'s resident architecture critic in 1999, Saffron has won many awards for her insightful and pointed critiques of architecture, planning, and urbanism in her city.

In 2010, she was awarded the Gene Burd Urban Journalism Award.[7]

In 2014, Saffron won the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism after receiving nominations for the prize in 2004, 2008, and 2009.[5]

In 2018, Saffron was one of two architecture critics to be honored with the Vincent Scully Prize, awarded by the National Building Museum; her fellow honoree was Robert Campbell, the architecture critic at The Boston Globe.[8]

Partial bibliography

Personal life

Saffron is married to writer Ken Kalfus,[9] with whom she has a daughter, Sky.[10]

References

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External links

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