Jayne Merkel

Jayne Merkel is an art historian and critic who writes for Architectural Design/AD magazine in London, Architectural Record and The Architects Newspaper in New York. She is the author of Eero Saarinen, several books on contemporary architects and architecture, and numerous museum catalogues. Her script for the documentary film “The Gateway Arch, A Reflection of America” received an Emmy in 2007. A former editor of Oculus magazine in New York and former Architecture Critic of The Cincinnati Enquirer, her writing has appeared in Art in America, Artforum, Connoisseur, Design Book Review, Harvard Design Magazine, Landscape Architecture, Progressive Architecture, the New York Times, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Wilson Quarterly, and other periodicals. She has taught writing, criticism, and art history at various colleges and worked as a curator at the Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center, Taft Museum, and University of Michigan Museum of Art.