Carol Herselle Krinsky (born 1937 Brooklyn, New York) is an American architectural historian.
She graduated from Erasmus Hall High School, studied at Smith College (1957 BA) and New York University, (Ph.D. 1965). Krinsky is a professor of twentieth-century architectural history at New York University and a former President of the Society of Architectural Historians.
Books Contemporary Native American Architecture: Cultural Regeneration and Creativity, Oxford University Press, 1996 Synagogues of Europe: Architecture, History, Meaning, MIT Press, 1985; revised edition, MIT Press, 1986; Dover Publications reprint, 1996 Europas Synagogen: Architektur, Geschichte, Bedeutung, Stuttgart, Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1988. Gordon Bunshaft of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, MIT Press, 1988 Rockefeller Center, Oxford University Press, 1978 Di Lucio Vitruvio Pollione 'De architectura.' Libri dece traduti de latino in Vulgare Affigurati: Com[m]entati: & con mirando ordine insigniti: Nachdruck der kommentierten ersten italienischen Ausgabe von Cesare Cesariano, Como, 1521, Munich, Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 1969. Essay. index. co-editor (with Kathryn A. Smith) Studies in Manuscript Illumination: A Tribute to Lucy Freeman Sandler, London/Turnhout, Harvey Miller/Brepols, 2008
Awards
1986: National Jewish Book Award in the Visual Arts category for Synagogues of Europe
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