Philip Nobel

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Philip Nobel
NationalityAmerican
GenreNon-fiction
SubjectArchitecture

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]

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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]

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