Mark Alan Hewitt

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Mark Alan Hewitt (born March 31, 1953) [1] is an American architect, preservationist and architectural historian, known for his work on architectural history and the history of architectural drawing "as a medium of thought." [2] [3] [4]

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Biography

Born in Berwyn, Illinois, Hewitt attended Sammamish High School in Bellevue, Washington, graduating in 1971. [5] He went to Yale University to study acting and English literature, but after taking a class with architectural historian Vincent Scully, changed his major to architecture. After graduating from Yale in 1975, he pursued a Master of Architecture degree at the University of Pennsylvania, studying with Allan Greenberg, Robert A.M. Stern, David Van Zanten, and Steven Izenour.

After graduating from Penn in 1978, Hewitt apprenticed for two years with the architecture firm Venturi, Rauch and Scott Brown. While there, he taught a studio at Penn with architect Steve Izenour called Beach, Boardwalk and Boulevard: The Built Environment of Atlantic City, NJ that later became an exhibition at the Cooper-Hewitt Museum in New York.

Hewitt has taught architecture and historic preservation at Rice University, Columbia University, New Jersey Institute of Technology, and, most recently, as a visiting faculty member at Rutgers University. [6]

Hewitt was the recipient of an NEH Fellowship at the Winterthur Museum in 1996, and was honored with the Arthur Ross Award in 2009 for his writing on classical architecture. He lives and practices in Sutton, New Hampshire.

Hewitt is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects. He sings with a number of choral and a cappella groups, including Ridge Light Opera, the Alumni of the Yale Russian Chorus, and Harmonium: A Classical Choral Society.

Work

Hewitt's research and writing has addressed American architecture and architects from 1880 to 1940, American country houses and domestic architecture, classical architecture and treatises on the orders, the work of Gustav Stickley, and architectural conservation. His latest research, on the neuroscience of design, resulted in the publication of the first cognitive history of architectural design in 2020. [7]

Hewitt currently practices architecture under the name Mark Alan Hewitt Architects. The firm primarily addresses historic preservation and residential architecture with projects including restoration and renovation, new additions and some entirely new buildings.

Selected publications

Articles, a selection

Filmography

Television

YearTV SeriesRoleNotes
2021Drive By HistoryHimselfEpisode 5.03 [8]

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References

  1. Who's Who In The East, 1995-96 (Marquis, New Providence, NJ: 1996).
  2. Hewitt (1985), as cited in Ellen Yi-Luen Do (2000)
  3. Herbert, Daniel M. Architectural study drawings. John Wiley & Sons, 1993.
  4. Do, Ellen Yi-Luen, et al. "Intentions in and relations among design drawings." Design studies 21.5 (2000): 483-503.
  5. US School Yearbooks 1880-2012 Ancestry Record, Sammamish High School, 1971.
  6. List of Previous Lecturers, Rutgers School of Arts and Sciences, 2017. Accessed 02-06-2017.
  7. Hewitt, Mark Alan, Draw In Order to See: a cognitive history of architectural design (San Francisco, ORO Editions: 2020).
  8. Drive By History | Roadside Novelty Architecture + History of Covered Bridges. | Season 2021 | PBS , retrieved 2022-10-05