Mark Lamster of The Dallas Morning Information has been named the 2026 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Criticism. Lamster received the accolade for his ongoing sequence about saving Dallas Metropolis Corridor by I. M. Pei.
Lamster beat out the opposite nominees Michael J. Lewis of The Wall Avenue Journal and The New Yorker’s Vinson Cunningham. The jury recommended Lamster for “his rigorous and passionate structure criticism, utilizing wit and experience to amplify his opinions and advocate for metropolis residents.”
The jury was chaired by Betsy Morais, Columbia Journalism Overview editor in chief, and included Lyndsay C. Inexperienced (Detroit Free Press), Wesley Morris (The New York Occasions), Emily Nussbaum (The New Yorker), and Pamela Paul (The Wall Avenue Journal).
That is the second 12 months in a row the Pulitzer Prize in Criticism has been awarded to an structure critic. Final 12 months’s Pulitzer Prize in Criticism Winner was Alexandra Lange for her sequence in Bloomberg about public area and parenting.
Lamster now joins an elite record of previous structure critics to have received the Pulitzer Prize in Criticism together with Lange, Ada Louise Huxtable, Robert Campbell, Inga Saffron, Blair Kamin, Justin Davidson, Allan Temko, and Paul Goldberger.
Early in his profession Lamster was a part of The Gutter, a bunch of nameless structure bloggers that had a “tumultuous 18-month run,” Lamster stated in 2009. Lamster first wrote for The Architect’s Newspaper in 2010 and has maintained a relationship with AN through the years.
In 2014, Lamster joined the employees at The Dallas Morning Information. It wasn’t precisely a heat welcome: Lamster was criticized for “his Yankee origin.” One critic, Charles Schultz, referred to as Lamster a “New York Pinhead” within the Dallas Observer. (Schultz later apologized.)
Lamster was awarded a Loeb Fellowship in 2017. Extra lately, he joined Saffron and Mabel Wilson on a panel hosted by AN in 2025 to debate the most recent U.S. Pavilion on the nineteenth Biennale Architettura.
The Dallas Morning Information stated Lamster’s Pulitzer Prize is the Texas newspaper’s tenth win in its 140-year historical past.
AN emailed Lamster for remark.
