Mark Lamster is the architecture critic of the Dallas Morning News, a Loeb Fellow at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, and former professor of practice in the architecture school at the University of Texas at Arlington. His biography of the late architect Philip Johnson, The Man in the Glass House (Little Brown, 2018), was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography.

Lamster’s writing has appeared frequently in national publications including The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and The Wall Street Journal. For many years, he was an editor at Princeton Architectural Press in New York, where he published a series of influential titles on architecture and graphic design. He is a native of New York, holds degrees from Johns Hopkins (B.A.) and Tufts (M.A.), and lives with his family in Dallas.