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Robert Campbell, Architecture Critic
in Love With Boston, Dies at 88

By Penelope Green

May 27, 2025  Updated 1:44 p.m. ET

Robert Campbell, the Pulitzer Prize-winning architecture critic of The Boston Globe who for more than 40 years wrote with clarity, wit and, yes, love about a city in transition, died on April 29 at an assisted living facility in Cambridge, Mass. He was 88.

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Robert was an English major at Harvard and wrote his honors thesis on the poetry of Dylan Thomas. He went on to study journalism at Columbia University and then worked as a staff writer for Parade magazine. But what he really wanted to do was practice architecture, so he returned to Cambridge, where he attended Harvard’s Graduate School of Design. He graduated in 1967.