Philip Ursprung
Biographical interview
SUMMARY
Philip talks about his extensive early work on art criticism and his interest in criticism as a form of writing at the outset of his scholarly career. He began writing about the Viennese critic Ludwig Hevesi and then moved to writing about the criticism in the Berlin secession magazine Das Atelier. He has then in his own career, interestingly, always engaged in writing about work in the making in architecture. He discusses how criticism is often the weaker part of the history, theory, criticism triad, yet it is the part we should protect and support the most.
BIOGRAPHY
Philip Ursprung is an art historian specializing in late 20th- and 21st-century European and North American art and architecture. Active as a historian, critic, and curator, Ursprung has taught at the University of Zurich, Hochschule der Künste Berlin, Columbia University, and Barcelona Institute of Architecture. He is a professor of history of art and architecture at the Department of Architecture at ETH Zurich, Switzerland, where he was dean of the department from 2017-19.
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