Form Follows Finance Nr.1 / Carol Willis
Channel: schauraum-b
Date: 02/01/2023

Carol Willis, Art and Architecture Historian, Professor of Architecture at Columbia University, New York City

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CAROL WILLIS ist Gründerin, Direktorin und Kuratorin des Skyscraper Museum in New York. Als Architektur- und Stadthistorikerin hat sie über die Geschichte des amerikanischen Städtebaus geforscht, gelehrt und geschrieben. Seit der Gründung des Museums im Jahr 1997 zeigte sie dreissig Ausstellungen zu historischen und zeitgenössischen, lokalen und globalen Themen. Dazu gehören: Die Zwillingstürme und das zwanzigste Jahrhundert, The Rise of Wall Street, SKY HIGH & the Logic of Luxury, Ten & Taller: Manhattan 1874-1900, SKYLINE, Housing Density, und zuletzt SUPERTALL und Residential Rising: Lower Manhattan seit 9/11. 
 
CAROL WILLIS ist ausserordentliche Professorin für Urbanistik an der Columbia University, wo sie im Rahmen des Programms The Shape of Two Cities unterrichtet. Sie ist Autorin des preisgekrönten Buches Form Follows Finance: Skyscrapers and Skylines in New York and Chicago (Princeton Architectural Press, 1995) und Herausgeberin von Building the Empire State (W.W. Norton, 1998). Sie tritt regelmäßig in Dokumentarfilmen und Rundfunksendungen auf, unter anderem für The History Channel, PBS, BBC Television, NPR und BBC World Service Radio. Frau Willis lebt mit ihrem Mann Mark Willis, einem Wirtschaftswissenschaftler, in einem Wolkenkratzer mitten in Manhattan.

CAROL WILLIS is the founder, director, and curator of The Skyscraper Museum in New York CIty.  An architectural and urban historian, she has researched, taught, and written about the history of American city building. Since establishing the Museum in 1997, Ms. Willis has mounted thirty exhibitions on topics historical and contemporary, local and global. These include Giants: The Twin Towers and the Twentieth Century, The Rise of Wall Street, SKY HIGH & the Logic of Luxury, Ten & Taller: Manhattan 1874-1900, SKYLINE, Housing Density, and, most recently SUPERTALL and Residential Rising: Lower Manhattan since 9/11. 
 
CAROL WILLIS is an Adjunct Associate Professor of Urban Studies at Columbia University where she teaches in the program The Shape of Two Cities: New York and Paris in The Graduate School of Architecture, Planning. She is the author of the prize-winning book Form Follows Finance: Skyscrapers and Skylines in New York and Chicago (Princeton Architectural Press, 1995) and editor of Building the Empire State (W.W. Norton, 1998). She has written numerous introductions to monographs and collections, including Skyscraper Rivals, New York Architecture, Manhattan Skyscrapers, and New York Deco, and appears regularly in documentaries and broadcasts, including programs for The History Channel, PBS, BBC Television, NPR, and BBC World Service Radio. Ms. Willis lives in a skyscraper in the middle of Manhattan with her husband Mark Willis, an urban economist.