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Mark Alan Hewitt, FAIA is an architect, teacher and architectural historian. He has taught architecture at Rice, Columbia, the University of Pennsylvania and the New Jersey Institute of Technology. His numerous publications on architecture and historic preservation include the award-winning The Architect and The American Country House (Yale University Press, 1990) and Gustav Stickley’s Craftsman Farms: The Quest for an Arts & Crafts Utopia (Syracuse University Press, 2001). He was the recipient of Graham Foundation Fellowships in 1985 and 2004, an NEH/Winterthur senior fellowship in 1996, and won first prize in the 1995 Great American Home Awards sponsored by the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Devoted to community advocacy for historic preservation and environmental conservation, he has served on the Board of Preservation New Jersey, the Stickley Museum at Craftsman Farms and the AIA Historic Resources Committee, and received 2002 and 2003 New Jersey Historic Preservation awards. In 2008 he received the Arthur Ross Award from the Institute for Classical Architecture for his writing and research. He is currently on the faculty of the art history department at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, in addition to running his own architectural firm, Mark Alan Hewitt Architects, in Bernardsville, New Jersey.