Pulitzer Prize-winning Chicago Tribune architecture critic Blair Kamin is one of the nation’s leading writers on architecture and urban design. A graduate of Amherst College and the Yale School of Architecture, Kamin was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University in 2012-13; during the fellowship, he co-taught a Harvard Wintersession course on the gates of Harvard Yard that led to this project. Kamin’s previous books include two collections of his columns published by the University of Chicago Press; Why Architecture Matters: Lessons from Chicago and Terror and Wonder: Architecture in a Tumultuous Age.
"here we have a book that's more than just a good read.it's time to
open up all of Harvard's gates, restore their meaning and revel in
their beauty." - Huffington Post
"As Kamin and his co-authors reveal in a series of essays, these
gates contain meaning far beyond their simple iron shapes and
symbols. " - Curbed
"From their architectural makeup to the range of people who funded
their construction, Kamin and his co-authors work to convey the
gates' historic beauty, which goes beyond their entrance, exit, and
prohibitive purposes." - Boston Magazine
"Gates are for getting through, but Kamin, his fellow instructors,
and their students ask us to pause and contemplate. From gates, the
neo-Georgian style spread to buildings and made much of the Harvard
we know today." - Harvard Magazine
"Many endearing details and quirks of history emerge from the pages
of this small, delightful book." - Architecture Boston
"To Blair Kamin.the wrought-iron gates that ring the campus green
at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., are. storytellers
through design and time capsules of university history, which he
and the students he taught.explore in the book "Gates of Harvard
Yard".Its thoughtful essays examine the 25 gates surrounding the
yard." - The New York Times
"Until this publication, the story of the gates had never been
fully told..[a] revealing study." - Design New England
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