Nicolai Ouroussoff (russian: Николай Владимирович Урусов; born October 3, 1962) is a writer and educator who was an architecture critic for the ''

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Biography

Born in

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, Massachusetts to a family from Russia, he received a bachelor's degree in Russian from

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and a master's degree in architecture from the

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. He is currently Adjunct Associate Professor of Architecture at

. A protégé of the late

Herbert Muschamp Herbert Mitchell Muschamp (November 28, 1947 – October 2, 2007) was an American architecture critic. Early years Born in Philadelphia, Muschamp described his childhood home life as follows: "The living room was a secret. A forbidden zone. ...

, Ouroussoff replaced his mentor as the ''New York Times'' architecture critic in 2004 after his stint at the ''Los Angeles Times''. He wrote the newspaper's obituary for Muschamp in 2007. Ouroussoff was a nominated finalist for the

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in criticism in 2003, 2004, 2006, and 2011. In 2011, it was announced that he would leave ''The New York Times'' to write a book. He was succeeded as architectural critic by

Michael Kimmelman Michael Kimmelman (born May 8, 1958) is the architecture critic for '' The New York Times'' and has written about public housing, public space, landscape architecture, community development and equity, infrastructure and urban design. He has repo ...

. He is married to the U.K.-born painter

Cecily Brown Cecily Brown (born 1969) is a British painter. Her style displays the influence of a variety of contemporary painters, from Willem de Kooning, Francis Bacon (artist), Francis BaconScott, Sue (2013). "Cecily Brown" in ''The Reckoning: Women Artis ...

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American male non-fiction writers Los Angeles Times people Critics employed by The New York Times Georgetown University alumni Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation alumni Living people American architecture critics Place of birth missing (living people) 1962 births 20th-century American journalists American male journalists {{US-journalist-1960s-stub