Thomas S. Hines

Thomas Spight Hines (born October 28, 1936 in Oxford, Mississippi ) is an American historian who has made a name for himself with his work on modern architecture and urban planning.

career

Hines graduated from the University of Mississippi ( BA 1958, MA 1960) and a doctorate in 1971 with a thesis on Daniel Burnham at the University of Wisconsin for Ph.D. ; the resulting book Burnham of Chicago (1974) was awarded the John H. Dunning Prize of the American Historical Association in 1976. Since 1968 Hines has taught at the University of California, Los Angeles , sometimes in the history department, sometimes in the history department; at the latter he was appointed full professor in 1980. In 1994 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . He retired in 2013.

Fonts

• Burnham of Chicago: Architect and Planner . Oxford University Press, Oxford and New York 1974, ISBN 0-19-501836-2 .
• Richard Neutra and the Search for Modern Architecture . Oxford University Press, Oxford and New York 1982; Reprint: Rizzoli, New York 2006 ISBN 0-8478-2763-1 .
• (With Franklin D. Israel ): Franklin D. Israel: Buildings and Projects . Rizzoli Press, New York 1992, ISBN 0847815390 .
• William Faulkner and the Tangible Past: The Architecture of Yoknapatawpha . University of California Press, Berkeley 1997, ISBN 0-520-20293-7 .
• Irving Gill and the Architecture of Reform . Monacelli Press, New York 2000, ISBN 1-58093-016-6 .
• Architecture of the Sun: Los Angeles Modernism, 1900-1970 . Rizzoli Press, New York 2010, ISBN 978-0-8478-3320-7 .

Web links

• Thomas S. Hines - Short profile on the UCLA website