Mark Lamster

Book Board Member / Critic; Writer / United States /

Mark Lamster is the architecture critic of the Dallas Morning News and a professor in the architecture school at the University of Texas at Arlington. He is currently at work on a biography of the late architect Philip Johnson, to be published by Little Brown. A contributing editor to Architectural Review and Design Observer, his work has appeared in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Wall Street Journal, and many national magazines.

For more than a decade, Lamster served as an editor at Princeton Architectural Press, in New York. Prior to that, he was an editor at George Braziller, the distinguished publisher of illustrated books. He is the author of numerous books, including Master of Shadows (2009), a political biography of the painter Peter Paul Rubens, and Spalding's World Tour (2006), the story of a group of all-star baseball players who circled the globe in the 19th century. His research papers from that book are available at the National Baseball Hall of Fame, in Cooperstown. He lives in New York City.

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By Mark Lamster December 13, 2013

The book that best says who Dallas Morning News architecture critic is just might be Woody Allen’s Without Feathers. More of Mark’s answers to The Proust Questionnaire—Book Edition.

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