Praise for Nicolai Ouroussoff

Nicolai Ouroussoff's two recent articles on Toyo Ito - on the man and his recent work, and his new stadium in Taiwan - are really good. Another I liked, on the Israeli barriers in Gaza, was both effective and courageous. He seems to realize that while he's a major critic, the architecture and architects are why people read him. His discernment is on display, but he's not vying for equal billing. He seems genuinely interested in his subject matter, too, and willing to go wherever to get the story. He must be selling papers (as Allan Temko put it), because the Ito articles both got excellent placement.