Blair Kamin Archives | Architects + Artisans

Blair Kamin’s newest book, “Amherst College: The Campus Guide,” paints a telling picture of his alma mater – with the buildings that populate it.

February 7, 2020 by Mike Welton

An Architectural History of Amherst College

Since 1821, the college has evolved from South Hall, built by local townspeople, to Italianate and Gothic structures, to a classical Palladian scheme, to a soon-to-come 21st-century campus center by Herzog & de Meuron.

February 5, 2020 by Mike Welton

From Blair Kamin, a Tour of Amherst College

In his new book, “Terror and Wonder: Architecture in a Tumultuous Age,” the Pulitzer Prize-winning critic strives mightily to define architecture during an epoch bracketed by “two great thunderclaps in the sky” – the destruction of the World Trade Center in 2001 and the completion of the world’s tallest building, the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, in 2010.

October 15, 2010 by Mike Welton

The Chicago Tribune’s Blair Kamin on ‘Terror and Wonder’