# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michael-kimmelman
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:46:16.418Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michael-kimmelman"
name: "Michael Kimmelman"
slug: "michael-kimmelman"
description: "Michael Kimmelman is the architecture critic for The New York Times and has written about public housing and homelessness, public space, landscape architecture, community development and equity, infrastructure and urban design. He has reported from more than 40 countries and twice been a Pulitzer Prize finalist, most recently in 2018 for his series on climate change and global cities. In March 2014, he was awarded the Brendan Gill Prize for his \"insightful candor and continuous scrutiny of New York's architectural environment\" that is \"journalism at its finest.\" He is also a professional classical music pianist."
tagline: "American art and architecture critic"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Michael_Kimmelman_MAXXI.tif?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1958-05-08"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.11
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.285242666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/kimmelman"
    handle:    "kimmelman"
sources:
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    title: "Michael Kimmelman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "مايكل كيميلمان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Kimmelman"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikiquote.org/wiki/Michael_Kimmelman"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Kimmelman"
    title: "Michael Kimmelman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Kimmelman"
    title: "Michael Kimmelman"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump