After the World Trade Center: The Struggle to Make a City for Our Time
Architectural Foundation of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
May 6th, 2004
LECTURES
Does Architecture Matter? Thoughts on Buildings, Design, and the Quality of Life
Fixed Income Forum, Chicago, IL
March 25th, 2004
Architecture, Museums and Authenticity
The Morgan Library, New York, NY
November 14th, 2003
Architecture Criticism: Does It Matter?
Butler University, Indianapolis, IN
November 12th, 2003
On Historic Preservation
National Trust for Historic Preservation
May 29th, 2003
Does Architecture Matter? Thoughts on Social Responsibility, Buildings, and the World After September 11th
Baltimore AIA, Baltimore, MD
October 8th, 2002
RPA Regional Assembly Keynote Address
April 26th, 2002
New York and the New Urbanism
Congress for the New Urbanism, New York, NY
June 9th, 2001
Frank Lloyd Wright at Hull House: On "The Art and Craft of the Machine"
Hull House Museum, Chicago, IL
March 1st, 2001
Cities, Place and Cyberspace
University of Calilfornia, Berkeley
February 1st, 2001
Design Lessons from the Late 20th Century
Seattle Design Center, Seattle, WA
March 2nd, 2000
Tribute to Vincent Scully
National Building Museum, Washington D.C.
November 12th, 1999
Delivered at the presentation of the Vincent Scully Medal.
Is There Still a Reason for Cities?
Henry Hart Rice Urban Policy Forum, New York University, New York, NY
April 12th, 1999
For William H. Whyte
January 19th, 1999
Technology, Community, and Common Ground
Columbia University School of Social Work, New York, NY
June 13th, 1998
Does Design Matter? Thoughts at College Commencement
Center for Creative Studies,
May 14th, 1998
For Brendan Gill
April 14th, 1998
On the Four Seasons Restaurant
The Four Seasons Restaurant, New York, NY
September 24th, 1997
Delivered at the celebration of the restaurant's landmark designation.
Tribute to Ada Louise Huxtable
Museum of the City of New York, New York, NY
March 25th, 1996
Eulogy for Charles Moore
January 22nd, 1994
Society of Architectural Historians Keynote Address
Buffallo, New York
October 30th, 2024
Architecture, Sacred Space and the Challenge of the Modern
Chautauqua Institution
August 12th, 2010
Architecture and New Haven
International Festival of Arts and Ideas, New Haven
June 24th, 2010
Tribute to Jeanne-Claude
Metropolitan Museum of Art
April 26th, 2010
Delivered at the memorial service for Jeanne-Claude, where Paul was the closing speaker.
Forty-Five Years of Landmarks in New York
Historic Landmarks Preservation Center
April 19th, 2010
Preservation: Where Do We Go From Here?
Indiana State Preservation Conference
April 8th, 2010
Delivered as the keynote address at the Indiana State Preservation Conference.
Classicism, Modernism and the Idea of Invention
University of Notre Dame
February 1st, 2010
Building Up and Tearing Down: Reflections on the Life of an Architecture Critic in New York
Colony Club
January 20th, 2010
Remarks delivered at the 50th anniversary celebration of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Beth Sholom Synagogue
Congregation Beth Sholom
November 15th, 2009
On the 50th Anniversary of the Guggenheim Museum
Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
June 17th, 2009
2008 National Planning Conference
Las Vegas, NV
May 1st, 2008
Address to the American Planning Association's 100th National Planning Conference at the Paris and Bally's Hotels in Las Vegas.
From a Symposium on Architecture for Worship in the 21st Century
Institute for Sacred Music, Yale University, New Haven, CT
October 25th, 2007
Writing About Architecture
Yale School of Architecture
October 8th, 2007
On Historic Preservation in Nantucket
Nantucket Preservation Trust , Nantucket, MA
July 27th, 2007
Yale and the Promise of the Modern
Yale Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
December 9th, 2006
Delivered at the re-opening of Louis Kahn's Yale Art Gallery.
Tribute to Jane Jacobs
Balthazar Restaurant, New York
October 3rd, 2006
Presented at the Greenwich Village Historic Preservation Society.
Philip Johnson’s Glass House
National Trust for Historic Preservation, Board of Trustees Meeting at The Glass House, New Canaan
May 24th, 2006
Presented at the National Trust for Historic Preservation's Board of Trustees Meeting.
Tribute to Allan Greenberg
Driehaus Prize Presentation, Chicago, IL
March 25th, 2006
Speech at the presentation of the Driehaus Prize to architect Allan Greenberg.
On Growing Up in Nutley, New Jersey
Nutley Hall of Fame, Nutley, NJ
November 20th, 2005
Remarks on being inducted to the Nutley Hall of Fame.
Tribute to Christo and Jeanne-Claude
American Society of Landscape Architects, New York Chapter, New York, NY
November 3rd, 2005
Landmarks Preservation at Forty
April 26th, 2005
New School University Convocation
New School University, New York, NY
September 9th, 2004
Architecture Criticism in the Age of Twitter
MIT
September 26th, 2017
Unity Temple Rededication Ceremony
Unity Temple
June 17th, 2017
Nantucket: The Golden Age
Nantucket Preservation Trust
June 6th, 2017
Jane Jacobs Centennial Lecture
The Center for the Living City
September 14th, 2016
The Creative City-Hitchcock Lecture 2
UC Berkeley, California
April 21st, 2015
The Generic City: Hitchcock Lecture 1
UC Berkeley, California
April 20th, 2015
School of Architecture, University of Southern California 2013 Commencement Address
University of Southern California
May 17th, 2013
Modernist Preservation: A Battle Far from Won
Cincinnati Preservation Assocation
April 25th, 2013
Tribute to Oscar Niemeyer
United Nations, New York, NY
April 24th, 2013
Woolworth Building Centennial
Woolworth Building, New York, NY
April 24th, 2013
Society of Architectural Historians, Plenary Session
Buffalo, NY
April 11th, 2013
Scully Prize Lecture, National Building Museum
National Building Museum, Washington DC
November 15th, 2012
Criticism Today
Dallas Museum of Art
April 26th, 2012
Delivered as the keynote address on the state of architectural criticism today at the David Dillon Symposium organized by the University of Texas at Arlington School of Architecture.
Santiago Calatrava and the Milwaukee Art Museum
Milwaukee Art Museum
November 30th, 2011
Talk given in commemoration of tenth anniversary of Calatrava's building, Milwaukee Art Museum.
Zoning and the Physical City
Lincoln Institute of Land Planning - NYC Department of City Planning, New York
November 15th, 2011
Plenary talk in Zoning the City conference, Lincoln Institute of Land Planning-NYC Department of City Planning, New York.
Islamic Architecture, Modernism, and I.M. Pei: The Challenge of the Museum of Islamic Art
Hamad bin Khalifa Symposium on Islamic Art, Doha, Qatar
October 29th, 2011
Delivered as the keynote address at the Hamad bin Khalifa Symposium on Islamic Art in the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, Qatar.
Ground Zero Ten Years Later: What Have We Wrought?
Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, Rutgers University
September 12th, 2011
Is There a Jewish Architecture?
Jewish Center of the Hamptons
August 21st, 2011
The Next American City
National Trust For Historical Preservation
October 27th, 2010
Delivered as the keynote address at the Annual Preservation Conference at the National Trust For Historic Preservation in Austin, Texas.
Density and the Future of Reston, Virginia
Reston Town Center
October 5th, 2010
Why Architecture Matters
Cleveland Museum of Art
September 15th, 2010