Description: Pulitzer Prize-winner Blair Kamin introduces twenty-five essays, covering each gate at Harvard Yard. Richly illustrated, this new edition includes the latest gate constructed at America's oldest university. The gates, mostly built over the past 125 years, prove to be sites of reminiscence and identity, reflecting Harvard's evolving sense of itself.
Brief description: Blair Kamin is a Pulitzer Prize-winning architecture critic, formerly on staff at the Chicago Tribune. A Nieman Fellow at Harvard University in 2012-13, he is a graduate of Amherst College and the Yale School of Architecture.
Review Quotes: 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.-- "New York Times"