The transition from print to online journalism has led to "chaos" within architecture criticism that has upsides as well as downsides, author Paul Goldberger tells Dezeen in this exclusive interview.
Pulitzer Prize-winner Goldberger served as the in-house architecture critic for The New York Times in the 1970s and '80s during the zenith of postmodernism.
He spoke to Dezeen about the changing priorities within architecture discourse in recent decades, including a greater focus on social responsibility.
"There is a greater willingness to deal with issues and to deal with architecture as a symbol of social inequity," he said.
As an example, he pointed to the conversation surrounding recently built skyscrapers on the Manhattan street colloquially known as Billionaire's Row. Read: Japanese architects have rejected the starchitect system says MoMA curator

Goldberger has written widely about the importance of criticism in the work of preservation, and believes there can be a balance between a chorus of voices and rigorous critique on these kinds of issues.
"Like the slow food movement, there's absolutely a need for a slow reading movement," he said.
"I know the audience is smaller, but I think [criticism] is real and serious ? not every building is worth that, plenty of buildings are just fine to talk about on X, because they're not worth more than 280 characters, but other things are."
"I don't want to sound li...