{"id":623827,"date":"2026-05-04T23:45:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T23:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/623827\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T23:45:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T23:45:08","slug":"mark-lamster-wins-2026-pulitzer-prize-in-criticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/623827\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Lamster wins 2026 Pulitzer Prize in Criticism"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mark Lamster<\/a> of The Dallas Morning News has been named the 2026 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Criticism. Lamster won the accolade for his ongoing series about saving Dallas City Hall<\/a> by I. M. Pei.<\/p>\n

Lamster beat out the other nominees Michael J. Lewis of The Wall Street Journal and The New Yorker\u2019s Vinson Cunningham. The jury commended Lamster for \u201chis rigorous and passionate architecture criticism, using wit and expertise to amplify his opinions and advocate for city residents<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

The jury was chaired by Betsy Morais, Columbia Journalism Review editor in chief, and included Lyndsay C. Green (Detroit Free Press), Wesley Morris (The New York Times), Emily Nussbaum (The New Yorker), and Pamela Paul (The Wall Street Journal).<\/p>\n

This is the second year in a row the Pulitzer Prize in Criticism has been awarded to an architecture critic<\/a>. Last year\u2019s Pulitzer Prize in Criticism Winner was Alexandra Lange<\/a> for her series in Bloomberg about public space and parenting.<\/p>\n

Lamster now joins an elite list of past architecture critics to have won the Pulitzer Prize in Criticism including Lange, Ada Louise Huxtable, Robert Campbell, Inga Saffron, Blair Kamin, Justin Davidson, Allan Temko, and Paul Goldberger.<\/p>\n

Early in his career Lamster was part of The Gutter, a group of anonymous architecture bloggers that had a \u201ctumultuous 18-month run<\/a>,\u201d Lamster said in 2009. Lamster first wrote for The Architect\u2019s Newspaper in 2010<\/a> and has maintained a relationship with AN over the years.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In 2014, Lamster joined the staff<\/a> at The Dallas Morning News. It wasn\u2019t exactly a warm welcome<\/a>: Lamster was criticized for \u201chis Yankee origin<\/a>.\u201d One critic, Charles Schultz, called Lamster a \u201cNew York Pinhead<\/a>\u201d in the Dallas Observer. (Schultz later apologized.)<\/p>\n

Lamster was awarded a Loeb Fellowship in 2017. More recently, he joined Saffron and Mabel Wilson on a panel<\/a> hosted by AN in 2025 to discuss the latest U.S. Pavilion at the 19th Biennale Architettura.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Dallas Morning News said Lamster\u2019s Pulitzer Prize is the Texas newspaper\u2019s tenth<\/a> win in its 140-year history.<\/p>\n

AN emailed Lamster for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mark Lamster of The Dallas Morning News has been named the 2026 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Criticism. Lamster…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":623828,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[228,226,227,229,88],"class_list":["post-623827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=623827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/623828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=623827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=623827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=623827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}