The architecture writer, Inga Saffron, won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize.

Inga Saffron writes about architecture, design and planning issues for The Philadelphia Inquirer. Her popular column, "Changing Skyline" has been appearing on Fridays in the paper’s Home & Design section since 1999. In 2012, she completed a Loeb Fellowship at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design. She has been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize three times, in 2004, 2008, and 2009, and in 2010 received the Gene Burd Urban Journalism Award.

Pushing beyond the usual boundaries of architectural criticism, her columns focus on the buildings and public spaces that Philadelphians encounter in their daily lives. Saffron applies a reporter's skills and sensibility to explore the variety of forces - political, financial, cultural ¬- that shape the city. Her columns on waterfront development, zoning and parking issues have led to significant changes in city policy. This year, Saffron launched Built, an innovative new web page that allows her to curate Inquirer stories on architecture, development and transportation. By packaging this related content together and updating it daily, Saffron has focused attention on a group of inter-connected issues that are crucial to Philadelphia’s future.

Before assuming her current position, Saffron spent five years as a correspondent in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union for The Inquirer. She covered wars in the former Yugoslavia and in Chechnya, and witnessed the destruction of Sarajevo and Grozny. It was in part because of those experiences that she became interested in the fate of cities and began writing about architecture.

Saffron began her journalism career as a magazine writer in Ireland and worked for the Courier-News in Plainfield, N.J., before joining The Inquirer in 1985 as a suburban reporter. She is the author of "Caviar: The Strange History and Uncertain Future of the World's Most Coveted Delicacy," published by Broadway Books in 2002. She lives with her family in Philadelphia.