Blair fireplace
Blair Kamin (born August 6, 1957 in Red Bank ) is a Pulitzer Prize- winning architecture critic of the Chicago Tribune .
Life
Blair was born in Red Bank, New Jersey , where he attended Amherst College , which he graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1979. He then attended Yale University , where he earned his master's degree in environmental design. He began his journalistic career at the Des Moines Register as a reporter and architecture critic. In 1987 he moved to the Chicago Tribune , where he has been working as an architecture critic since 1992.
He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1999 for his work on the Chicago Lake Front . He has received numerous other awards such as the George Polk Award for criticism , the Institute Honor for Collaborative Achievement of the American Institute of Architects, and the Peter Lisagor Award for Exemplary Journalism , which he has received eight times.
Individual evidence
- ^ A b The 1999 Pulitzer Prize Winners, Criticism - Blair Kamin. In: pulitzer.org. Retrieved July 20, 2014 .
- ↑ About Blair Fireplace. In: Chicago Tribune. August 28, 2013, accessed July 20, 2014 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fireplace, Blair |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American architecture critic |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 6, 1957 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Red Bank |