Architecture Critic Mark Lamster Of Dallas Morning News Wins Pulitzer Prize For Criticism

Pulitzers Land, Institutions Wobble

Good Morning, This year’s Pulitzers were announced. Bess Wohl’s Liberation took Drama (Playbill). Gabriela Lena Frank’s Picaflor, premiered last year by the Philadelphia Orchestra, won Music (Philadelphia Inquirer). Mark Lamster of the Dallas Morning News won Criticism for his architecture columns about downtown Dallas (Dallas Morning News). The book prizes went to Lepore, Li, Vaill, Kraus, Goldstone, and Spahr (Literary Hub). The wobbles, meanw…

DMN Architecture Critic Mark Lamster Wins Pulitzer Prize in Criticism

Dallas Innovates, Every Day: Here's what's new + next in North Texas. Dallas Morning News architecture critic Mark Lamster has been awarded the 2026 Pulitzer Prize in Criticism, marking the 10th Pulitzer overall won by the 140-year-old newspaper. Lamster, a 2017 Loeb Fellow at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, was cited “for his rigorous and passionate architecture criticism, using wit and expertise to amplify his opinions and advocate for …

Architecture Critic Mark Lamster Of Dallas Morning News Wins Pulitzer Prize For Criticism

“Lamster won for a series of columns about downtown Dallas that sparked civic debate and revealed how past decisions have shaped the present. A focus of his criticism has been the fate of Dallas City Hall, a celebrated yet controversial work of brutalist design by architect I.M. Pei.” – The Dallas Morning News (MSN) The post Architecture Critic Mark Lamster Of Dallas Morning News Wins Pulitzer Prize For Criticism appeared first on ArtsJournal.