Thomas Spight Hines (born 1936) is a professor emeritus of history and architecture at the
University of California, Los Angeles
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, where he taught cultural, urban and architectural history for many years.
Hines received his Ph.D. at the
University of Wisconsin–Madison
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in 1971.
Hines is the author of ''Burnham of Chicago: Architect and Planner'', which won the
Dunning Prize in 1972. Other works include ''Richard Neutra and the Search for Modern Architecture'', ''William Faulkner and the Tangible Past: The Architecture of Yoknapatawpha'', ''Irving Gill and the Architecture of Reform'', and "Architecture of the Sun: Los Angeles Modernism, 1900-1970" as well as numerous articles in a wide variety of periodicals.
Hines has held Guggenheim, Fulbright, NEH and Getty fellowships and was elected to the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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in 1994.
Books
* Hines, Thomas S., ''Burnham of Chicago: Architect and Planner'', Oxford University Press, Oxford and New York 1974,
* Hines, Thomas S., ''Irving Gill and the Architecture of Reform'', Monacelli Press, New York 2000,
* Hines, Thomas S., ''Richard Neutra and the Search for Modern Architecture'', Oxford University Press, Oxford and New York 1982; Rizzoli, New York 2006
* Hines, Thomas S., ''William Faulkner and the Tangible Past: The Architecture of Yoknapatawpha'', University of California Press, Berkeley 1997,
* Hines, Thomas S. "Architecture of the Sun: Los Angeles Modernism, 1900-1970" Rizzoli Press, 2010,
External links
UCLA Dept. of History Faculty Profile*Finding aid for
Thomas S. Hines interviews regarding Richard J. Neutra.
Getty Research Institute
The Getty Research Institute (GRI), located at the Getty Center in Los Angeles, California, is "dedicated to furthering knowledge and advancing understanding of the visual arts". , Los Angeles. Accession No. 2010.M.58. Interviewees include Neutra's family, friends, business associates, clients, and Los Angeles architects.
1936 births
Living people
University of Wisconsin–Madison alumni
American architecture writers
American male non-fiction writers
American architectural historians
University of California, Los Angeles faculty
American art historians
Historians from California
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