Kristen Richards, who as the editor of the website ArchNewsNow (ANN) for almost 20 years helped architects, architecture buffs, and her fellow architecture writers keep tabs on what was happening around the world, died yesterday. She was 69. The cause was cancer, according to her husband, George Yates, a software engineer.
At its peak, ANN had some 15,000 subscribers, including writers like this one, who got some of his best story ideas by seeing what was making news in other countries. The free publication became essential reading and meant that writers who had been known only locally were now read globally. When Richards applied for honorary membership in the AIA, in 2010, Blair Kamin, then the architecture critic of the Chicago Tribune, wrote, “It is perhaps an exaggeration to say that Kristen Richards has changed the way that the architectural world communicates, but not much of one.” San Francisco Chronicle critic John King wrote: “She is the water cooler, the town pump, the back fence.”
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