Robert Campbell

Robert Campbell studied at Harvard University, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and Harvard Graduate School of Design. Employment is recorded with University of Michigan. Distinctions recorded are Rome Prize, Pulitzer Prize for Criticism and Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

• Name — Robert Campbell • Birth Name — Robert Douglas Campbell Jr. • Born — 31 March 1937 • Birthplace — Buffalo, New York, U.S. • Died — 29 April 2025 • Place of death — Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S. • Occupation — Architect, architecture critic, writer, poet, photographer • Known for — Architecture critic for The Boston Globe; Pulitzer Prize for Criticism (1996) • Education — Harvard College Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism Harvard Graduate School of Design • Awards — Pulitzer Prize for Criticism (1996) Fellow of the American Institute of Architects Vincent Scully Prize (2018)

Robert Douglas Campbell Jr. was born March 31, 1937, in Buffalo, New York. His father was an accountant; his mother, Amy (Armitage) Campbell, was a homemaker. He was a graduate of Harvard College, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa, the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, and the Harvard Graduate School of Design, where he received the Appleton Traveling Fellowship and Francis Kelley Prize.

Beginning in 1973 Campbell was the architecture critic for the Boston Globe. His last piece for the Globe ran in 2017. Though best known as a writer he was also a practicing architect. After a period working for the firms of Cambridge architects Earl Flansburgh and Josep Lluís Sert he went into independent practice in 1975. Much of his work was as a consultant for the improvement or expansion of cultural institutions, including the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and the Boston Symphony Orchestra. He was an urban design consultant to cities and was an advisor to the Mayors' Institute on City Design, which he helped found. In 1997 he was architect-in-residence at the American Academy in Rome. In 2002 he helped plan and appeared in a television series, "Beyond the Big Dig".

Campbell died at an assisted living home in Cambridge, on April 29, 2025, at the age of 88.

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