# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michael-sorkin
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:36:58.584Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michael-sorkin"
name: "Michael Sorkin"
slug: "michael-sorkin"
description: "Michael David Sorkin was an American architectural and urban critic, designer, and educator. He was considered to be \"one of architecture's most outspoken public intellectuals\", a polemical voice in contemporary culture and the design of urban places at the turn of the twenty-first century. Sorkin first rose to prominence as an architectural critic for the Village Voice in New York City, a post which he held for a decade throughout the 1980s. In the ensuing years, he taught at prominent universities around the world, practiced through his eponymous firm, established a nonprofit book press, and directed the urban design program at the City College of New York. He died at age 71 from COVID-19 complications."
tagline: "American architect (1948-2020)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Michael_Sorkin.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "architects"
profileType:
  name: "Architect"
  slug: "architect"
birthDate: "1948-08-02"
deathDate: "2020-03-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  historical:           10.95799333333333
  currentAttention:     61.90476190476192
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump