Philip Nobel

American architect

Philip Nobel
Nationality	American
Genre	Non-fiction
Subject	Architecture

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]

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

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

^ "Philip Nobel, Author at Metropolis".
^ A Nobel Prize: Curbed Adds Not One But Two Architecture Critics | Observer
^ "Philip Nobel". April 2, 2010.
^ "Conversations in Context: Gregg Pasquarelli + Philip Nobel". Bustler.
^ "The Eternal City". Bookforum.
^ "Reviewer's Remorse, Not Philip Nobel".
^ "Design for the real world: diapers". Public Radio International.
^ ^a ^b "Philip Nobel | Authors | Macmillan". US Macmillan.
^ "Majikthise : World's Worst Person: Philip Nobel". majikthise.typepad.com.
^ "SIXTEEN ACRES by Philip Nobel | Kirkus Reviews" – via www.kirkusreviews.com.
^ Kolb, David (January 1, 2008). Sprawling Places. University of Georgia Press. p. 156 – via Internet Archive. philip nobel.
^ "Perusall". app.perusall.com.
^ Rajs, Jake; Nobel, Philip (May 5, 2011). "NEW NEW YORK". New York, New York : THE MONCELLI PRESS – via Trove.
^ 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.
^ "Philip Nobel". thamesandhudson.com.