Christopher Hawthorne is an architecture critic and educator. He is Senior Critic at the Yale School of Architecture, with a secondary appointment at Yale in English. He writes the weekly Punch List architecture newsletter and is a regular contributor to the New York Times and the New York Review of Architecture. His writing has also appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Harvard Design Magazine, and many other publications. He is the author, with Alanna Stang, of The Green House: New Directions in Sustainable Architecture (Princeton Architectural Press). He served from 2018 to 2022 as the first Chief Design Officer for the city of Los Angeles, a position appointed by Mayor Eric Garcetti. From 2004 to 2018 Hawthorne was the architecture critic for the Los Angeles Times. His earlier teaching appointments include positions at the University of Southern California, Occidental College, the Southern California Institute of Architecture, and UC Berkeley. A frequent collaborator with KCET-TV, the PBS affiliate in Los Angeles, Hawthorne wrote and directed the documentary “That Far Corner: Frank Lloyd Wright in Los Angeles,” for which he received an LA-area Emmy Award. From 2015 to 2022, first at Occidental and then at USC, he led the Third Los Angeles Project, a series of public conversations about architecture, urban planning, mobility, and demographic change in Southern California. He has been a Mid-Career Fellow at Columbia University’s National Arts Journalism Program and a Resident in Criticism at the American Academy in Rome.