Philip Nobel Explained

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 and is divorced with children.^[8]

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".^[9]

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.^[10]

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^{[11] [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]

External links

• Interview with Nobel and Greg Pasquarelli
• Article by Nobel and a photo of him at Designobserver.com

Notes and References

1. Web site: Philip Nobel, Author at Metropolis.
2. https://observer.com/2012/05/a-nobel-prize-curbed-adds-not-one-but-two-architecture-critics/ A Nobel Prize: Curbed Adds Not One But Two Architecture Critics | Observer
3. Web site: Philip Nobel. April 2, 2010.
4. Web site: Conversations in Context: Gregg Pasquarelli + Philip Nobel. Bustler.
5. Web site: The Eternal City. Bookforum.
6. News: Reviewer's Remorse, Not Philip Nobel. Boston.com .
7. Web site: Design for the real world: diapers. Public Radio International.
8. Web site: Majikthise : World's Worst Person: Philip Nobel. majikthise.typepad.com.
9. Web site: SIXTEEN ACRES by Philip Nobel | Kirkus Reviews. www.kirkusreviews.com.
10. Book: Kolb, David. Sprawling Places. registration. 156. philip nobel.. January 1, 2008. University of Georgia Press. Internet Archive.
11. Web site: Philip Nobel | Authors | Macmillan. US Macmillan.
12. Web site: Perusall. app.perusall.com.
13. Web site: NEW NEW YORK. Jake. Rajs. Philip. Nobel. May 5, 2011. New York, New York : THE MONCELLI PRESS. Trove.
14. Book: The Future of the Skyscraper. Philip. Nobel. Tom. Vanderbilt. Matthew. Yglesias. Diana. Lind. Will. Self. Emily. Badger. Dickson D.. Despommier. Michael. Govan. May 5, 2015. Metropolis Books. 9781938922787. Google Books.
15. Web site: Philip Nobel. thamesandhudson.com.