Martin Filler is an architectural historian, critic, curator, filmmaker, and lecturer best known as a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books since 1985. He received degrees in art history from Columbia University, has written more than a thousand articles for numerous newspapers, magazines, scholarly journals, and exhibition catalogues, and is the author of the three-volume Makers of Modern Architecture series. A fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he has organized design exhibitions for the Whitney and Brooklyn museums and has collaborated on documentary films with his wife, the architectural historian Rosemarie Haag Bletter.