Here’s an idea: I’m going to go back and read every Critic’s Notebook and Architecture Review written by Michael Kimmelman since he took over as the New York Times’ architecture critic in 2011.

Kimmelman is very well respected, and I don’t miss Herbert Muschamp, his predecessor, in the least. Nonetheless, something has always bothered my about the slant Kimmelman stated as starting point upon becoming an architecture critic—a sort of anti-professionalism that assumed that the obsession of popular culture in the '00s with starchitecture was somehow a reflection of the internal state of the profession.

At some point a few articles ago, I realized that he has drifted into a much more conventional platform since that September of 2011, and I wondered how he got there. Time to re-read the articles.