Reporter and Cultural Producer
Stephen Zacks is a reporter, theorist and cultural producer, and a Flint, MI native, based in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. A Liberal Studies M.A. graduate from the New School for Social Research, he has reported on art, architecture and urbanism around the world for the New York Times, Village Voice, Print, Monocle, Architectural Record, Blueprint and Metropolis. His international reporting includes coverage of Israeli colonial architecture in the West Bank, the logic of development in Dubai, landmarks preservation in Kosovo, the no-man's land in Nicosia, public art in Panama, the graphic resistance in Serbia, and political art in South Korea. As a Metropolis editor from 2004 to 2008, he reported on Steven Holl's museum addition in Kansas City, affordable housing policy in New York, Stefan Behnisch's high-performance architecture in Germany, and profiled regional architects like Rand Elliott in Oklahoma City, Jeanne Gang in Chicago, Phil Freelon in North Carolina, MC2 in Houston, and Peter Gluck in New York. He is currently writing a book on New York's recovery after the mid-70s fiscal crisis, reporting, producing cultural projects, and writing commentary at Heroes & Charlatans.