Martin Filler

Martin Filler is the architecture critic of House & Garden and a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books and The New Republic. He is the co-author, with Olivier Bossiere, of The Vitra Design Museum: Frank Gehry, Architect.

From the Review

March 20, 2008: Broad-Minded Museum

The Broad Contemporary Art Museum at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2008

Renzo Piano Museums by Renzo Piano, with an essay by Victoria Newhouse

Collecting Collections: Highlights from the Permanent Collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

January 17, 2008: Miracle on the Bowery

April 12, 2007: Half the Fun (letter)

November 16, 2006: The Getty: For Better and Worse

The Getty Villa by Marion True and Jorge Silvetti, with an introduction by Salvatore Settis

March 9, 2006: 'The Bird Man' (letter)

December 15, 2005: The Bird Man

Santiago Calatrava: Sculpture into Architecture

Santiago Calatrava: Clay and Paint, Ceramics and Watercolors

Santiago Calatrava: The Bridges by Alexander Tzonis and Rebeca Caso Donadei

Santiago Calatrava: The Complete Works by Alexander Tzonis

Santiago Calatrava: The Athens Olympics by Alexander Tzonis and Rebeca Caso Donadei

Santiago Calatrava: Milwaukee Art Museum, Quadracci Pavilion by Cheryl Kent

February 24, 2005: Filling the Hole

Imagining Ground Zero: Official and Unofficial Proposals for the World Trade Center Site by Suzanne Stephens with Ian Luna and Ron Broadhurst, and with a foreword by Robert A. Ivy

Sixteen Acres: Architecture and the Outrageous Struggle for the Future of Ground Zero by Philip Nobel

Up from Zero: Politics, Architecture, and the Rebuilding of New York by Paul Goldberger

Breaking Ground by Daniel Libeskind with Sarah Crichton

October 23, 2003: Victory at Bunker Hill

Symphony: Frank Gehry's Walt Disney Concert Hall with an introduction by Frank Gehry and a preface by Deborah Borda; essays by Richard Koshalek and Dana Hutt, Carol McMichael Reese, Michael Webb, and Esa-Pekka Salonen; and photographs by Grant Mudford

Frank O. Gehry: Work in Progress

November 1, 2001: Berlin: The Lost Opportunity

City of Architecture, Architecture of the City: Berlin 1900–2000 edited by Thorsten Scheer, Josef Paul Kleihues, and Paul Kahlfeldt

Rebuilding the Reichstag by Norman Foster

The Reichstag: The Parliament Building by Norman Foster by Bernhard Schulz

Architektur in Berlin: Jahrbuch 2000 edited by the Architectenkammer, Berlin

November 18, 1999: Not Basque (letter)

October 21, 1999: Ghosts in the House

Frank O. Gehry: The Complete Works by Francesco Dal Co, by Kurt W. Forster

Frank O. Gehry: Guggenheim Museum Bilbao by Coosje van Bruggen

Frank O. Gehry: Guggenheim Bilbao Museoa text by Kurt W. Forster, photographs by Ralph Richter

Gehry Talks: Architecture + Process edited by Mildred Friedman, with an essay by Michael Sorkin, commentaries by Frank O. Gehry

Frank O. Gehry: Kurt W. Forster Art Publishers) edited by Christina Bechtler, in collaboration with Kunsthaus Bregenz

February 4, 1999: High Wire Acts

Logbook by Renzo Piano

Renzo Piano Building Workshop: Complete Works in three volumes, by Peter Buchanan

Technology, Place & Architecture: The Jerusalem Seminar in Architecture edited by Kenneth Frampton

September 24, 1998: Aalto and Hitler (letter)

April 9, 1998: Giant in the Woods

Alvar Aalto: Between Humanism and Materialism exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, February 19-May 19, 1998., Catalog of the exhibition edited by Peter Reed

Finnish Modern Design: Utopian Ideals and Everyday Realities, 1930-1997 Arts, February 27-June 14, 1998. exhibition at the Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative, Catalog of the exhibition edited by Marianne Aav, by Nina Stritzler-Levine

Alvar Aalto in His Own Words by Göran Schildt

Alvar Aalto: Master Works by Göran Schildt

The Alvar Aalto Guide by Michael Trencher

February 19, 1998: L.A. Art (letter)

December 18, 1997: The Big Rock Candy Mountain

Building the Getty by Richard Meier

The J. Paul Getty Museum and Its Collections: A Museum for the New Century by John Walsh, by Deborah Gribbon

Making Architecture: The Getty Center by Harold M. Williams, by Ada Louise Huxtable, by Stephen D. Rountree, by Richard Meier

October 23, 1997: Fantasia

Iconography and Electronics upon a Generic Architecture: A View from the Drafting Room by Robert Venturi

February 20, 1997: Big Mack

Charles Rennie Mackintosh 1996-February 16, 1997; The Art Institute of Chicago, March 29-June 22; and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, August 3-October 12 (previously at the Glasgow Museums, McLellan Galleries, May 25-September 30, 1996) Exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, November 19,

Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868-1928) by Charlotte Fiell, by Peter Fiell

Charles Rennie Mackintosh catalog of the exhibition,, edited by Wendy Kaplan

Mackintosh's Masterwork: Charles Rennie Mackintosh and the Glasgow School of Art by William Buchanan, by James Macaulay, by Andrew MacMillan, by George Rawson, by Peter Trowles, foreword by Eckart Muthesius

June 20, 1996: All About Eames

Charles and Ray Eames: Designers of the Twentieth Century by Pat Kirkham

Eames House: Charles and Ray Eames by James Steele

Eames House by Marilyn Neuhart, by John Neuhart

The Films of Charles and Ray Eames, Volumes I-IV

May 25, 1995: 'Prince of the City' (letter)

December 22, 1994: Prince of the City

Philip Johnson: Life and Works by Franz Schulze

Philip Johnson: The Glass House edited by David Whitney, edited by Jeffrey Kipnis

The Oral History of Modern Architecture: Interviews with the Greatest Architects of the Twentieth Century by John Peter

Philip Johnson: The Architect in His Own Words by Hilary Lewis, by John O'Connor

January 13, 1994: He'd Rather Be Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright by Meryle Secrest

Frank Lloyd Wright: Collected Writings: edited by Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer, Introduction by Kenneth Frampton

Wright Studies, Volume I: Taliesin, 1911–1914 edited by Narciso G. Menocal

Frank Lloyd Wright: The Lost Years 1910–1922: A Study of Influence by Anthony Alofsin

Frank Lloyd Wright: The Masterworks edited by David Larkin, by Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer, text by Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer

Frank Lloyd Wright, Hollyhock House and Olive Hill by Kathryn Smith

Frank Lloyd Wright's Hollyhock House by Donald Hoffmann

Barnsdall House: Los Angeles, 1920 by James Steele

The Wright Style by Carla Lind

Frank Lloyd Wright Companion by William Allin Storrer

About Wright: An Album of Recollections by Those Who Knew Frank Lloyd Wright by Edgar Tafel

Frank Lloyd Wright: Architect 20–May 10, 1994) catalog of the exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art (February, edited by Terence Riley

February 11, 1993: He's the Top

The Paintings and Sketches of Louis I. Kahn by Jan Hochstim, Introduction by Vincent Scully

Louis I. Kahn: Writings, Lectures, Interviews edited and with an introduction by Alessandra Latour

Louis I. Kahn: In the Realm of Architecture 1991–January 5, 1992), Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (March 5–May 4, 1992), the Museum of Modern Art, New York (June 14–August 18, 1992), the Museum of Modern Art, Gunma, Japan (September 26–November 3, 1992), the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (March 7–May 30, 1993), Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth (July 3–October 10, 1993), Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio State University, Columbus (November 17, 1993–February 1, 1994) an exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (October 20,

Louis I. Kahn: In the Realm of Architecture catalog of the exhibition by David B. Brownlee, by David G. De Long

The Art Museums of Louis I. Kahn University Museum of Art by catalog of an exhibition at the Duke Patricia Cummings Loud, foreword by Michael P. Mezzatesta

February 1, 1990: House Hunting

The Most Beautiful House in the World by Witold Rybczynski

December 17, 1987: Thoroughly Modern Master

Towards a New Architecture by Le Corbusier, translated and with an introduction by Frederick Etchells

The Villas of Le Corbusier: 1920–1930 by Tim Benton

Le Corbusier: Architect of the Century

Journey to the East by Le Corbusier, edited and annotated by Ivan Zaknić, translated by Ivan Zaknić, in collaboration with Nicole Pertuiset

The Le Corbusier Guide by Deborah Gans

Le Corbusier: 5 Projects 26, 1987) An exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York (March 26–May

Le Corbusier: Une encyclopédie Catalog of the exhibition "L'Aventure Le Corbusier: 1887–1965" at the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (October 6, 1987–January 3, 1988), edited by Jacques Lucan

Le Corbusier: Ideas and Forms by William J.R. Curtis

Le Corbusier edited by H. Allen Brooks

Le Corbusier: The City of Refuge, Paris, 1929–1933 by Brian Brace Taylor

Pessac de Le Corbusier: 1927–1985, Etude socio-architecturale by Philippe Boudon, preface by Henri Lefebvre

Le Corbusier: Early Works by Charles-Edouard Jeanneret-Gris with contributions by Geoffrey Baker, by Jacques Gubler

Le Corbusier: La progettazione come mutamento Catalog of the exhibition at the Università Statale, Milan (December 15, 1986–January 31, 1987), edited by Cesare Blasi, by Gabriella Padovano

Le Corbusier: Pittore e scultore Catalog of the exhibition at the Museo Correr, Venice (September 6–November 30, 1986)

Le Corbusier Secret: Dessins et collages de la collection Ahrenberg Lausanne Catalog of the exhibition at the Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts (April 2–May 10, 1987)

The Decorative Art of Today by Le Corbusier, translated and introduced by James I. Dunnett

L'Esprit Nouveau: Le Corbusier und die Industrie, 1920–1925 Catalog of the exhibition at the Museum für Gestaltung, Zürich (March 28–May 10, 1987)

January 29, 1987: The Master Builder

Louis Sullivan: His Life and Work by Robert Twombly

The Curve of the Arch: The Story of Louis Sullivan's Owatonna Bank by Larry Millett

Louis Sullivan: The Function of Ornament by David Van Zanten, by William Jordy, by Wim de Wit, by Rochelle Elstein

Louis Sullivan and the Polemics of Modern Architecture: The Present against the Past by David S. Andrew

June 12, 1986: Building & Nothingness

Mies van der Rohe: A Critical Biography Modern Art by Franz Schulze. in association with the Mies van der Rohe Archive of the Museum of

Mies van der Rohe by David Spaeth, preface by Kenneth Frampton

Mies van der Rohe: The Villas and Country Houses by Wolf Tegethoff

Mies van der Rohe: Architect as Educator (distributed by University of Chicago Press) Catalog for Exhibition at S. R. Crown Hall, June 6–July 12, 1986.

Mies van der Rohe Centennial Exhibition Museum of Modern Art, New York February 10–April 15, 1986. Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago May 9–August 10, 1986

Mies van der Rohe: Drawings Max Protetch Gallery, New York February 5–March 1, 1986

Mies A film produced and directed by Michael Blackwood

December 5, 1985: Tall Stories

The Tall Building Artistically Reconsidered: The Search for a Skyscraper Style by Ada Louise Huxtable

Ada Louise Huxtable: An Annotated Bibliography by Lawrence Wodehouse

From New York Review Books

Makers of Modern Architecture Through the remarkable stories of their lives and his incisive judgments about their works, Martin Filler describes how these modern architects have transformed our sense of buildings, interiors, and the urban environment.