EP 39: Designing Cities | Inga Saffron

Inga Saffron has been the Philadelphia Inquirer’s architecture
critic since 1999. Her work has been recognized with numerous
awards, including the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism and a Loeb
Fellowship from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design. In
June 2020, Rutgers University Press published a selection of her
columns, "Becoming Philadelphia: How an old American city made
itself new again." She is also the author of a cultural history of
the sturgeon, "Caviar: The Strange and Uncertain Future of the
World’s Most Coveted Delicacy." Before becoming the Inquirer’s
architecture critic, she worked as a foreign correspondent for the
Inquirer in Russia and the former Yugoslavia, where she covered the
wars in Bosnia and Chechnya, and witnessed the destruction of
Sarajevo and Grozny. Bon asks Inga about her journey in becoming an
architecture critic, transforming public spaces through design and
why diseases are the most powerful architects.