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Carol Willis
The Skyscraper Museum, President | New York City, United States
About
Carol Willis is the founder, director, and curator of The Skyscraper Museum. An architectural and urban historian, she has researched, taught, and written about the history of American city building. She is the author of Form Follows Finance: Skyscrapers and Skylines in New York and Chicago (Princeton Architectural Press, 1995: 2008), which received an AIA book award and was named ""Best Book on North American Urbanism, 1995"" by the Urban History Association. Critic Herbert Muschamp has praised Ms. Willis in The New York Times as ""the brilliant and energetic 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.""
Ms. Willis is an Adjunct Associate Professor of Urban Studies at Columbia University where since 1989 she has taught in the program The…
CTBUH Roles
Annual Conference, Presenter (Chicago 2009; New York 2015; China 2016; Chicago 2019)
Awards Jury (2005; 2008)
Annual Conference, Keynote Speaker (Shanghai 2014)
Annual Conference, Session Chair (2016)
CTBUH Initiatives
CTBUH 2019 Global Walking Tour: 50 Forward | 50 Back
27 June 2019
18 August 2017
Skyscraper Summit Warms Sydney Up for CTBUH 2017
18 August 2017
Videos
20 December 2016
CTBUH 2016 China Conference - Plenary 7: Technical & Social Issues Q&A
Thursday October 20, 2016. Hong Kong, China. Vijay Jayachandran of Otis Elevator Company; Carol Willis of The Skyscraper Museum in New York City; Ada Y.S....
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Research
28 October 2019
World’s Biggest (Tall) Buildings
Carol Willis, The Skyscraper Museum
In both professional circles and in the public eye, the subject of the World’s Tallest Building (WTB) has held the spotlight for more than a...
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Research
17 October 2016
Singularly Slender: Sky Living in New York, Hong Kong, and Elsewhere
Carol Willis, The Skyscraper Museum
This paper highlights a new 21st-century skyscraper typology – the very tall and slender residential tower – and analyzes the economic, engineering, and urbanistic forces...
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