Nicolai Ouroussoff
Born	Cambridge, Massachusetts
Education	Georgetown University,Columbia University
Spouse	Cecily Brown

Nicolai Ouroussoff (Russian:Николай Урусов) is a writer and educator who was an architecture critic for theLos Angeles Times andThe New York Times.

Born inCambridge, Massachusetts to a family from Russia, he received a bachelor's degree in Russian fromGeorgetown University and a master's degree in architecture from theColumbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation.^[1] He is currently Adjunct Associate Professor of Architecture atColumbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation.^[2]

A protégé of the lateHerbert Muschamp, Ouroussoff replaced his mentor as theNew York Times architecture critic in 2004 after his stint at theLos Angeles Times. He wrote the newspaper's obituary for Muschamp in 2007.^[3]

Ouroussoff was a nominated finalist for thePulitzer Prize in criticism in 2003, 2004, 2006, and 2011.

In 2011, it was announced that he would leaveThe New York Times to write a book. He was succeeded as architectural critic byMichael Kimmelman.^[4]

He is married to the U.K.-born painterCecily Brown.

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