Blair Kamin was the architecture critic of the Chicago Tribune, for 28 years from 1992 to 2021.
13 Facts About Blair Kamin
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Blair Kamin serves as a contributing editor of Architectural Record.
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Blair Kamin won the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 1999, for a body of work highlighted by a series of articles about the problems and promise of Chicago's greatest public space, its lakefront.
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Blair Kamin has received numerous other honors, authored books, lectured widely, and served as a visiting critic at architecture schools including the Harvard University Graduate School of Design.
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Blair Kamin holds honorary degrees from Monmouth University and North Central College.
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Blair Kamin was a reporter and architecture writer for The Des Moines Register from 1984 to 1987.
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Blair Kamin had once worked as an office clerk for a San Francisco interior design and architecture firm.
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Blair Kamin has lectured in forums such as American Institute of Architects' National Convention, the annual meeting of the Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy, the Ravinia Festival and Steppenwolf Theatre.
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Blair Kamin has discussed architecture on programs ranging from ABC's Nightline, History Channel, National Public Radio to WTTW-Ch.
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Blair Kamin cites as his influences Paul Gapp, Paul Goldberger, Lois Wagner Green, Ada Louise Huxtable, Vincent Scully, Allan Temko, and Joel Upton.
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Blair Kamin's wife is the author and former Tribune reporter Barbara Mahany.
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Blair Kamin was part of the collaborative team that won the 2003 National Magazine Award for General Excellence for the Architectural Record.
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Blair Kamin has twice served as a Pulitzer Prize juror.