Background
Hewitt, Mark Alan was born on March 31, 1953 in Berwyn, Illinois, United States. Son of William Arthur and Shirley Ruth Hewitt.
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Hewitt, Mark Alan was born on March 31, 1953 in Berwyn, Illinois, United States. Son of William Arthur and Shirley Ruth Hewitt.
He attended Sammamish High School in Bellevue, Washington, graduating in 1971. Graduating from Yale in 1975, he pursued his Master of Architecture degree at the University of Pennsylvania, studying with Allan Greenberg, Robert Master of Arts Stern, David Van Zanten, and Steven Izenour.
Hewitt went to Yale University to study acting and English literature, but a class with Vincent Scully convinced him to change his major to architecture. After graduating in 1978, he served a two-year apprenticeship with the firm of Venturi, Rauch and Scott Brown. While there, he taught a studio with Steve Izenour called Beach, Boardwalk and Boulevard: The Built Environment of Atlantic City, New Jersey that later became an exhibition at the Cooper-Hewitt Museum in New 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.
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. 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. Hewitt is a Fellow in 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.
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Active Township Planning Board, Hope, New Jersey, 1990-1992. Member board commissioners New Jersey Historic Trust, Trenton, since 1992. Board directors Preservation New Jersey, Belle Mead, since 1992.
Member American Institute of Architects, Society Architectural Historians, Association for Preservation Technology, Architectural League New York, New Jersey Society Architects, American Friends Attingham Summer School (board directors 1988-1991), Cultural Arts Council Houston (architecture panel 1985-1986), Rice Design Alliance (board directors 1984-1985).
Married Virginia Lynn Bensel, November 1, 1980 (divorced 1994). 1 child, Sarah Elizabeth.