Inga Saffron

Inga Saffron (born November 9, 1957) is an American journalist and architecture critic. She won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism while writing for The Philadelphia Inquirer.

Early life and education Saffron was raised in Levittown, New York, and attended New York University. Upon returning to the United States, Saffron wrote for the Courier-News in Somerville, New Jersey. Beginning in 1999, she became the Inquirers architecture columnist, writing "Changing Skyline", an architecture column.

Saffron gained notoriety for a 2020 article entitled "Buildings Matter, Too," in which she said destruction of property was not a valid response to the George Floyd incident.

Harvard University Graduate School of Design She was a Loeb Fellow at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design in 2012.

Awards Since becoming The Philadelphia Inquirers resident architecture critic in 1999, Saffron has won many awards for her insightful and pointed critiques of architecture, planning, and urbanism in her city.

In 2010, she was awarded the Gene Burd Urban Journalism Award.

In 2014, Saffron won the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism after receiving nominations for the prize in 2004, 2008, and 2009.

Partial bibliography 2002: Caviar: The Strange History and Uncertain Future of the World's Most Coveted Delicacy, Broadway Books 2020: Becoming Philadelphia: How an Old American City Made Itself New Again, Rutgers University Press

Personal life Saffron is married to writer Ken Kalfus, with whom she has a daughter, Sky.