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Thomas Hine

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The United States

gender

male

website

http://www.thomashine.com/

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Nonfiction, Architecture and Design

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Thomas Hine is a writer on history, culture and design. He is the author of five books, and he contributes frequently to magazines, including The Magazine Antiques, Philadelphia Magazine, Atlantic Monthly, Martha Stewart Living, Architectural Record and others. He is a senior contributing writer to Home Miami and Home Fort Lauderdale.

He has been praised in the New Yorker by John Updike for his "mischievously alert sensibility, and was recently cited by House & Garden as "America's sharpest design critic." Populuxe--a word he coined as the title of his first book to describe the styles and enthusiasms of post-World War II America, has entered the language and is now included in the American Heritage and Random House dictionaries.

From 197...more Thomas Hine is a writer on history, culture and design. He is the author of five books, and he contributes frequently to magazines, including The Magazine Antiques, Philadelphia Magazine, Atlantic Monthly, Martha Stewart Living, Architectural Record and others. He is a senior contributing writer to Home Miami and Home Fort Lauderdale.

He has been praised in the New Yorker by John Updike for his "mischievously alert sensibility, and was recently cited by House & Garden as "America's sharpest design critic." Populuxe--a word he coined as the title of his first book to describe the styles and enthusiasms of post-World War II America, has entered the language and is now included in the American Heritage and Random House dictionaries.

From 1973 until 1996, he was the architecture and design critic for the Philadelphia Inquirer. In 1977 and 1978, he was a Ford Foundation fellow, traveling in Iran, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, the Soviet Union and elsewhere to study the impact of rapid political change on architecture and planning.

Recently, he was guest curator of Promises of Paradise, a groundbreaking exhibition on the design of post World War II South Florida. He also was an adviser to the Orange County Museum Art on its 2007-2009 touring exhibition Birth of the Cool and wrote an essay for its highly-praised, award-winning catalogue. Earlier, he was guest curator for the Denver Art Museum touring exhibition US Design: 1975-2000. He also wrote one of the essays in its catalogue. He worked with the National Building Museum on On the Job, a 2001 exhibition and catalogue about offices, and with the Fairmount Park Art Association on its New Landmarks exhibition and catalogue, which explored a new approach to public art. In 1989, he was an advisor to the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, on its exhibition, Landmarks for Modern Living, about the post World War II Case Study House program, and he contributed an essay to its prize-winning catalogue.

Other books to which he has contributed chapters include Volare(1999) and Material Man (2000),both created by the Fashion Engineering Unit of Florence Italy, and Life: A Century of Change (2000).

He has taught courses at both the University of Pennsylvania and Temple University. He has lectured at Yale, Syracuse, Drexel, and Michigan State Universities; museums including the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Museum of the City of New York, the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, and the Worcester Art Museum; and to professional and trade associations including the American Institute of Architects and the Canadian Pulp and Paper Association.

He was born in suburban Boston, grew up in Connecticut, and graduated from Yale. He has lived in Philadelphia since 1970. (less)

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Books by Thomas Hine

Average rating: 3.53 · 306 ratings · 47 reviews · 12 distinct works

	The Rise and Fall of the American Teenager 3.46 avg rating — 84 ratings — published 1999 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Populuxe: The Look and Life of America in the '50s and '60s, from Tailfins and TV Dinners to Barbie Dolls and Fallout Shelters 4.01 avg rating — 72 ratings — published 1986 — 5 editions	My rating:
	I Want That!: How We All Became Shoppers 3.02 avg rating — 64 ratings — published 2002 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Great Funk: Falling Apart and Coming Together (on a Shag Rug) in the Seventies 3.57 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 2007	My rating:
	The Total Package: The Evolution and Secret Meanings of Boxes, Bottles, Cans and Tubes 3.53 avg rating — 38 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Great Funk: Falling Apart and Coming Together (on a Shag Rug) in the Seventies 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2009	My rating:
	Coca Cola by Thomas Hine (Manufacturer), Christine Dell'Amore (Creator), N/A (Creator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2011	My rating:
	The Great Funk: Styles of the Shaggy, Sexy, Shameless 1970s 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2009	My rating:
	Facing Tomorrow: What the Future Has Been, What the Future Can Be 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1991	My rating:
	The Eames Lounge Chair: An Icon of Modern Design by Martin Eidelberg, Pat Kirkham, Thomas Hine 3.78 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2006	My rating: