Critics Robert Campbell and Inga Saffron Recognized with the 2018 Vincent Scully Prize

The National Building Museum celebrates the newspaper architecture critic.

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Two Pulitzer Prize–winning architecture critics, Robert Campbell, FAIA, and Inga Saffron, have been named this year’s recipients of the Vincent Scully Prize, an annual jury-selected award given for excellence in architecture and design-related fields presented by the National Building Museum. The prize’s namesake—and first honoree—died in December.

In the prize’s nearly two-decade history, it has been given to other critics (Witold Rybczynski, Hon. FAIA, a frequent contributor to this magazine, is one), architects (Robert A.M. Stern, FAIA, the recently deceased Robert Venturi, and Denise Scott Brown, Hon. FAIA, for three), as well as others working in related fields. Landscape architect Laurie Olin, Hon. AIA, received last year’s prize.

Campbell and Saffron are both newspaper architecture critics, he for the Boston Globe and she for the Philadelphia Inquirer—a crop of voices that is becoming an “endangered species.” Another member of this club, Blair Kamin of the Chicago Tribune, will be moderating a discussion between the two prize winners at the National Building Museum on Oct. 29.

About the Author

Sara Johnson

Sara Johnson is the former associate editor, design news at ARCHITECT. Previously, she was a fellow at CityLab. Her work has also appeared in San Francisco, San Francisco Brides, California Brides, DCist, Patchwork Nation, and The Christian Science Monitor.

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