Arfaa Lecture Series Presents Inga Saffron

Inga Saffron is the architecture critic for The Philadelphia Inquirer. Having begun her career as a municipal reporter and then a foreign correspondent, for more than two decades she been a forceful advocate for meaningful design, quality public spaces, affordable housing, historic preservation, and policies that make cities more livable and climate resilient. Her work has been recognized with numerous awards, including the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Vincent Scully Prize from the National Building Museum, and a Loeb Fellowship from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design. In 2020, Rutgers University Press published a selection of her Inquirer columns in Becoming Philadelphia: How an old American City Made itself New Again. Her current project on the American newspaper building is tentatively titled Building News: How American Newspapers used Architecture to Communicate with Readers and Sell Papers.