I Was a Graphic Designer and I Found a Job in Design

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I just completely lucked into that job. I was by chance it changed my whole life. And it taught me how to edit and write. At that point, it was still very much a kind of old school, but high modernist publication. There was a graphic designer for it named David Sterling who found something called Devil Space. It was a grounding for me as well and a particular idea about the role of design.

Michael Kimmelman has been the architecture critic of The New York Times since 2011, writing about cities, public space, infrastructure, community development, public housing, equity, and the environment. He joins to talk about his extraordinary career in journalism and his new book, “The Intimate City: Walking New York.”