Carol Willis (architectural historian)

Carol Willis
Born1949
NationalityAmerican
Alma materColumbia University (M.A., M.Phil.)
Boston University(B.A.)
OccupationArchitect
Signature
Architectural History
Urban History
Art History

Carol Willis is the founder, director, and curator of the Skyscraper Museum.[1] She is also adjunct associate professor of Urban Studies at Columbia University.[2] Herbert Muschamp described Willis in The New York Times as the “woman who created the Skyscraper Museum in 1996 from nothing but her imagination, her passion for New York architecture, and her belief in the importance of history and the value of the public realm.”[3]

Life

Willis graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Boston University (B.A Art History, 1971.) She studied architectural history at Columbia University in the Department of Art History and Archaeology (M.A., 1976, M.Phil.,1979.)[4]

Willis is the author of Form Follows Finance: Skyscrapers and Skylines in New York and Chicago. The book received an AIA book award and the "Best Book on North American Urbanism" in 1995 by the Urban History Association.[5]

Willis is married to Mark Willis, a banker and adjunct professor of urban planning at NYU.[6]

Selected works

  • Form Follows Finance: Skyscrapers and Skylines in New York and Chicago (Princeton Architectural Press, 1995: 2008)
  • Building the Empire State (W.W. Norton, 1998)
  • Introduction to Skyscraper Rivals by Daniel M Abramson (Princeton Architectural Press, 2000)
  • The Lower Manhattan Plan Paperback, edited by Carol Willis, introduction by Ann Buttenwieser (Princeton Architectural Press, 2002)
  • Introduction to New York Architecture: A History, photographs by Richard Berenholtz, text by Amanda Johnson (New York:Universe, 2003)
  • Introduction to New York Deco by photographer Richard Berenholtz (Welcome Books, 2009)

References

  1. ^ "New York: The Center of the World . Bonus Video . American Experience . WGBH | PBS". pbs.org. 2013. Retrieved October 9, 2013.
  2. ^ "Carol Willis". ctbuh.org. 2013. Archived from the original on February 17, 2015. Retrieved October 10, 2013. Adjunct Associate Professor of Urban Studies
  3. ^ "Municipal Art Society of New York". Archived from the original on 2013-03-11.
  4. ^ "CTBUH". Archived from the original on 2015-02-17. Retrieved 2013-10-09.
  5. ^ "The Urban History Association". University of Dayton. 2012. Archived from the original on 2012-12-10. Retrieved October 9, 2013.
  6. ^ Wadler, Joyce (May 30, 2002). "The New York Times".