Blair Kamin is the architecture critic of the Chicago Tribune, a post he has held since 1992.
Kamin has held other jobs at the Tribune and previously worked for The Des Moines Register.
He also serves as a contributing editor of Architectural Record.
He 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.
He 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.