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A Voice for Here and Now George Baird Architecture Record September 16, 2013 Makers of Modern Architecture (Volume II): From Le Corbusier to Rem Koolhaas By Martin Filler. New York Review Books, 2013, 336 pages, $30. Martin Filler's new collection of essays appears in the wake of a significant shift in the tenor of architectural criticism. Gone are such provocative, if “unstable” (Filler's word), figures as Herbert Muschamp, and such cheerleaders for the star system as Nicolai Ouroussoff. Instead, we have their more measured successor at  The New York Time s, Michael Kimmelman, as well as the similarly thoughtful Christopher Hawthorne at the  Los Angeles Times  and Blair Kamin at the  Chicago Tribune . But Filler can claim to have launched the new tone, and a new social orientation to architectural design. Since he began writing for  The New York Review of Books  in 1986, he has commented on historical figures as well a...

En este comentario publicado en ARCHITECTURAL RECORD, Christopher Hawthorne valora el pulso de la crítica de arquitectura surgida recientemente, desde su propia experiencia como crítico del periódico Los Angeles Times. What Happens to Architectural Criticism When Dailies Shrivel and Bloggers Take Over? : In 1998, the British critic Martin Pawley rather dramatically announced what he called “the strange death of architectural criticism.” Pawley lamented the disappearance of an aggressive, “take-no-prisoners” approach to critical writing about architecture, which he felt was being replaced by “wall-to-wall testimonials of praise.” I wonder what Pawley, who served as architecture critic for both the Guardian and Observer newspapers and died in 2008, would say about the state of the field today, particularly in this country.