Ζητήματα ηθικής στην αρχιτεκτονική δημοσιογραφία: Ο ρόλος της κριτικής στα περιοδικά Architectural Record και Architectural Forum στη δεκαετία του ’50

By the end of the 1950s, the US periodicals Αrchitectural Forum and Architectural Record restructured their editorial policies relating to their uses of pieces of architectural criticism. From the one side, Architectural Forum published by Time Inc., was attempting a widening of their readership through the use of flagrant architectural criticism under the supervision of the enthusiastic editor-in-chief Douglas Haskell, who assembled a team of talented journalists with foremost being the name of Jane Jacobs, acclaimed critic and writer. One the other side, Architectural Record, published by the informative organization F. W. Dodge Co. was led by Emerson Goble, a conservative editor who was openly opposed to architectural criticism and who paradoxically sustained a stable collaboration with Lewis Mumford whose articles in the magazine dealt with issue of social restructuring, morality, technological progress, and the development of the contemporary mega-cities. The current study will refer to the role and uses that the two intellectual critics held in the two respective magazines in the context of professional architectural journalism of the mid-20th century USA.