About Blair Kamin:

Mr. Kamin is the 1999 Pulitzer-Prize-winning architecture critic for the Chicago Tribune.  A graduate of the Yale University School of Architecture, he has recieved many awards including the George Polk Award for criticism, the American Institute of Architects' Institute Honor for Collaborative Achievement and the Peter Lisagor Award for Exemplary Journalism, which he has won eight times.

Books:

Kamin, Blair.  Why architecture matters : lessons from Chicago.   University of Chicago Press, 2001.  On order.
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Articles:  (Selected from 1988 — 2002)

“Architect do no harm: tales of moral decrepitude from the notebook of an ever more cynical architecture critic. Metropolis 2002 Aug.-Sept., v.22, n.1, p.78,80.

“The great American exaggeration.”  [book review] Julie Lasky. Metropolis 2002 Jan., v.21, n.5, p.78-79.

“Santiago Calatrava marries sculpture and structure, and molds a new identity for the Milwaukee Art Museum, his first building in the United States.” Blair Kamin.  Architectural record 2002 Mar., v.190, n.3, p.[92]-105,[224].

“Fussing with the cityscape: Mayor Daley presides over the Martha Stewarting of Chicago.” Blair Kamin.
Metropolis 2001 Mar., v.20, n.7, p.64,66,68.

“Public housing in 1999: a hard assessment.”  Architectural record 1999 Nov. v.187, n.11, p.77-83,200,[202].

“At the urging of a mayor intent on leaving his mark, the city where the skyscraper was born is piling up public works.”  Blair Kamin. Architectural record 1998 July, v.186, n.7, p.25,[27].

“Chicago development moves out of The Loop.”   Blair Kamin.  Architecture 1992 Oct., v.81, n.10, p.26-27.

“The Chicago Public Library Competition: results and opinions.”  Blair Kamin,...[et al.].  Inland architect 1988 July-Aug., v.32, no.4, p.58-65.

Web Sites:

Chicago Tribune Web site: www.chicagotribune.com/features/chi-blairkamin.storygallery
Read a number of Kamin’s  articles on this site back to 1999.