The influential US architect, urbanist and writer Michael Sorkin has died after contracting coronavirus. He was 71.

Tributes poured in from around the world, with the architect Jeremy Till, head of Central Saint Martins, calling him a “brave and brilliant critic”.

The news was confirmed tonight by Lesley Lokko, dean of the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture at the City College of New York where Sorkin was a professor and director emeritus of Graduate Urban Design Programme.

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