Cathleen McGuigan is an architecture critic and cultural journalist. A longtime contributor to Newsweek magazine, where she was also a senior editor for the arts, her articles have appeared as well in the Smithsonian, the New York Times Magazine, Art News, Rolling Stone and Harper’s Bazaar. A graduate of Brown University, McGuigan was a Loeb Fellow at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard and is an adjunct professor at Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism. She is at work on a biography of Aline Saarinen.

The famed architect’s futuristic concert hall, open this week in Miami Beach, is irresistible even to classical music novices. Cathleen McGuigan on Gehry’s latest masterpiece.