11 Facts About Paul Gapp

Paul Gapp was an architecture critic for the Chicago Tribune.

Paul Gapp won the Pulitzer Prize for criticism in 1979.

From 1950 until 1956, Paul Gapp worked for The Columbus Dispatch.

From 1956 until 1966, Paul Gapp was a reporter and editor for the Chicago Daily News.

Between 1966 and 1972, Paul Gapp worked as an account executive for a Chicago public-relations firm and directed the Urban Journalism Fellowship Program at the University of Chicago.

Paul Gapp served as the executive director of both the Chicago Chapter and the Illinois Council of the American Institute of Architects.

In 1972, Paul Gapp joined the Chicago Tribune as its assistant city editor for urban affairs.

In one September 1978 column, Paul Gapp noted that despite Chicago's broad assortment of architecturally significant buildings, no tour existed that covered all 46 of Chicago's official landmarks and historic sites.

Paul Gapp spent three years battling cancer and emphysema before his death in Chicago on July 30,1992.

Paul Gapp is survived by their children, Leslie Sharp and Steve Gapp, and three grandchildren.

Paul Gapp was an avid philatelist, and from 1973 until 1981 wrote a column on stamp collecting for the Tribune under the pseudonym Helmuth Conrad.