Nicolai Ouroussoff is the architecture critic for The New York Times

The New York Times

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Biography

Born in Boston

Boston

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, Massachusetts United States, he received a bachelor’s degree in Russian from Georgetown University and a master’s degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture

The protégé of the late Herbert Muschamp

Herbert Muschamp

Herbert Mitchell Muschamp was an American architecture critic.- Early years :Born in Philadelphia, Muschamp described his childhood home life as follows: “The living room was a secret. A forbidden zone. The new slipcovers were not, in fact, the reason why sitting down there was taboo. That was...

, Ouroussoff replaced his mentor as New York Times architecture critic in 2004. He wrote the newspaper's obituary for Muschamp in 2007.

Previously, Ouroussoff had been the architecture critic for the Los Angeles Times

Los Angeles Times

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, for which he was a nominated finalist for a Pulitzer Prize

Pulitzer Prize

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 in 2004. He is married to the U.K.-born painter Cecily Brown

Cecily Brown

Cecily Brown, born 1969 in London, is a British painter. She has a great respect for art history and her works reveal her reverence and high regard for artists such as Francisco de Goya, Nicolas Poussin, Willem de Kooning, and Joan Mitchell while incorporating into her works her distinct female...

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External links

• http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/o/nicolai_ouroussoff/index.html
• http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/22/arts/design/22barn.html?pagewanted=1&ref=design
• http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2005/06/nicolai_ourouso.html