
Sarah Williams Goldhagen is the New Republic’s architecture critic and a scholar and theorist of modern and contemporary architecture. The author of Louis Kahn’s Situated Modernism (Yale University) and editor, with Rejean Legault, of Anxious Modernisms: Experimentation in Postwar Architectural Culture (MIT), Goldhagen has published widely, in edited collections, scholarly, and popular journals and periodicals, including the New York Times, Art in America, Art News, and the Harvard Design Magazine. She has written on a broad array of topics, including the work of architects such as Santiago Calatrava, Rem Koolhaas, Jean Nouvel, Moshe Safdie, and Peter Zumthor, and themes such as infrastructure, historic preservation, architectural education, and urban design, landscape architecture, and landscape urbanism. Goldhagen is currently writing a book for Harper/Collins on how people experience the contemporary built environment.