Mark Alan Hewitt Architects

Mark Alan Hewitt Architects is an award-winning architecture and preservation firm in central New Jersey. We specialize in compatible additions to historic houses, as presented in The Vintage House, Mark Hewitt & Gordon Bock's book on successful renovation approaches. Mr. Hewitt is an architectural historian and preservationist with over 30 years of experience in both practice and academia. Mark Alan Hewitt, FAIA, is one of America’s foremost scholar-architects. His research on American architecture of the Progressive Era has won awards and recognition from academic peers as well as the public at large. In six books and dozens of articles he has advanced knowledge and appreciation for the Arts & Crafts movement, the country life era, early 20th century American domestic architecture, the New York row house, and landscape architecture of the early 20th century, among other subjects. His book on the American country house is acknowledged as the standard work in the field. In addition to opening up a new avenue of research on the country house, Hewitt was the first scholar to seriously examine the architecture of Gustav Stickley and his Craftsman companies, shedding light on an often-misunderstood chapter in the American Arts & Crafts movement. He is known as one of the most prolific biographers of American architects. He contributed biographical articles to the Biographical Dictionary of African American Architects, the American National Biography, the Encyclopedia of New Jersey, the Encyclopedia of Architects, Design and Construction, and the Grove Dictionary of American Art, among other publications. Hewitt is well known among historians for his work on the history and theory of architectural representation, particularly his contributions to cognitive modes in the design process. As an active participant in historic preservation and regional history, the he continues to study and write about New Jersey’s built environment. He is one of three authors contributing to the forthcoming AIA-NJ book on 150 Great Buildings and Places in New Jersey.