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Martin Myles Filler (September 17, 1948) is a prominent American architecture critic. Born in Colorado Springs, CO, Filler received a BA in Art History from Columbia College in 1970 and an MA from Columbia University's Department of Art History and Archaeology in 1972. He is best known for his long essays on modern architecture that have appeared in ''The New York Review of Books'' since 1985, and which served as the basis for his 2007 book ''Makers of Modern Architecture'', published by New York Review Books. A Spanish-language edition, ''La arquitectura moderna y sus creadores'', will be published by Alba in October 2012. Robert Hughes praised it as "by far the most intelligent and shapely writing on architecture done in recent years," and called Filler the "one regular critic in the American press whose pieces are a guaranteed pleasure to revisit–or to read for the first time."〔Robert Hughes. (''Master Builders'' ). ''The New York Review of Books''. Published: September 27, 2007, p.46-48〕 A second collection of his ''New York Review'' essays, ''Makers of Modern Architecture, Volume II'', was published by New York Review Books in the fall of 2013. According to the historian George Baird, "In the wake of a significant shift in the tenor or architectural criticism . . . () can claim to have launched the new tone, and a new social orientation to architectural design . . . The strength of Filler's writing has steadily grown over time and . . . ()t seems to me that he can now lay claim to the mantel of the late Ada Louise Huxtable."〔George Baird, ("A Voice for Here and Now," ) ''Architectural Record'', September 2013, p.47〕 His writing for the Review of Books ensures his books are positively reviewed. He never wrote a single review of a female architect, so that the libel lawsuit filed by Iraqi Architect Zaha Hadid in 2014 underline his long promotion of the male architects. Filler began his career in 1973 at Columbia University's Teachers College Press. From 1974 to 1977 he was the editor of ''Architectural Record Books'' at McGraw-Hill, where he produced anthologies of writings by Frank Lloyd Wright and Lewis Mumford. He began contributing book reviews to ''Architectural Record'' magazine in 1974, and three years later became an associate editor at ''Progressive Architecture''. In 1979 Filler started his long association with Condé Nast Publications, where he was an editor of ''House & Garden'' until the magazine ceased publication in 2007. From 1990 to 1994 he was also a contributing editor at ''Vanity Fair'', where he wrote profiles on major figures in the arts including Lucian Freud, Roy Lichtenstein, Paul Mellon, I.M. Pei, Irving Penn, and Jacob Rothschild. His writings on architecture, art, and design–more than 1,000 articles to date–have appeared in a broad range of periodicals, newspapers, scholarly journals, and exhibition catalogues in the United States, Europe, and Japan, including some 50 pieces for ''The New York Times''. During the early 1980s, ''Art in America'' ran his eleven-part series on an emerging generation of avant-garde architects including Frank Gehry and others yet to achieve widespread recognition. From 1999 to 2003 he was the architecture critic for ''The New Republic'', and in that latter year was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Filler's criticism is often acerbic and outspoken: in a ''New York Times'' Op-Ed Page piece he denounced the Gwathmey Siegel addition to Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim Museum as "the most appalling act of architectural vandalism since the demolition of Pennsylvania Station".〔Martin Filler. ''Playing 'Beat the Clock' With the Guggenheim''. ''The New York Times''. Published: July 30, 1988, p.25〕 In ''The New York Review of Books'' he termed the rebuilding of post-reunification Berlin "a fiasco of immense proportions, the greatest lost opportunity in postwar urbanism,"〔Martin Filler. (''Berlin: The Lost Opportunity'' ). ''The New York Review of Books''. Published: November 1, 2001, p.28-31〕 and characterized the bird-like structures of the Spanish architect-engineer Santiago Calatrava as "kitsch."〔Martin Filler. (''The Bird Man'' ). ''The New York Review of Books''. Published: December 15, 2005, p.28-34〕 Filler's May 10, 2012 profile of Rem Koolhaas in the New York Review of Books attracted the architect's attention for its factual errors based on what Filler found on Wikipedia.〔Martin Filler. (''The Master of Bigness'' ). ''The New York Review of Books''. Published: May 10, 2012〕 When Koolhaas wrote the NYRB to correct the errors, Filler responded by blaming Koolhaas for not correcting his own Wikipedia page〔Martin Filler. (''The Master of Bigness'' ). ''The New York Review of Books''. Published: July 12, 2012〕 (those errors were corrected in the revised version of the Koolhaas essay that appears as Chapter 13 in ''Makers of Modern Architecture, Volume II''). Filler's May 23, 2013 article〔Martin Filler, ("MoMA: A Needless Act of Destruction," ) ''The New York Review of Books'', May 23, 2013, pp. 4-6〕 denouncing the Museum of Modern Art's intention to demolish Tod Williams and Billie Tsien's adjacent American Folk Art Museum building to make way for MoMA's further expansion has been widely credited with prompting the institution to reconsider its plans. As Baird noted, "It is hard to imagine that Filler's voice did not have a significant effect on the situation."〔Baird, ''op cit''.〕 Filler served as a guest curator for the Whitney Museum of Art's exhibition ''High Styles: Twentieth Century American Design'' (1984) and the Brooklyn Museum's exhibition ''Vital Forms: American Art and Design in the Atomic Age'', 1940-1960 (2001). In 1978 he married the architectural historian Rosemarie Haag Bletter, with whom he collaborated on the Whitney show. Together they wrote and conducted interviews for three documentary films by Michael Blackwood: ''Beyond Utopia: Changing Attitudes in American Architecture'' (1983), ''Arata Isozaki'' (1985), and ''James Stirling'' (1987). From August 2014 until January 2015 he was the subject of a lawsuit by Zaha Hadid for erroneous comments he made in The New York Review of Books. Within days of the legal action, Filler issued a public statement stating, in part, “I wrote that an 'estimated one thousand laborers...have perished while constructing her project thus far' ...(in fact ) there have been no worker deaths on the Al Wakrah project.” He added that "I regret the error." In early 2015 Hadid withdrew her complaint and under the terms of a confidential settlement agreement donated "an undisclosed sum of money to a charitable organization that protects and champions labor rights."〔Suzanne Stephens and Anna Fixsen. ("Case Closed: Zaha Hadid v. New York Review of Books and Martin Filler," ) ''Architectural Record,'' January 23, 2015〕 == References == 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Martin Filler」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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