View the FULL PROGRAM with Carol Willis's introduction and dialogue with Gail Fenske and Kathryn Holliday. An Adjunct Associate Professor of Urban Studies at Columbia University's GSAPP, she teaches in the program Shape of Two Cities: New York and Paris. She is the author of Form Follows Finance: Skyscrapers and Skylines in New York and Chicago (Princeton Architectural Press, 1995), among other publications. in the history, theory, and criticism of architecture from MIT.Ĭarol Willis is the founder, director, and curator of The Skyscraper Museum. She is also a licensed architect and has practiced architecture in Boston and New York. She is Professor of Architecture in the School of Architecture, Art & Historic Preservation at Roger Williams University and has taught as a visiting professor at Cornell, Wellesley, and MIT.
Gail Fenske is author of The Skyscraper and the City: The Woolworth Building and the Making of Modern New York (University of Chicago Press, 2008) and co-editor of Aalto and America (Yale University Press, 2012). Gail Fenske, The Woolworth Building: Highest in the World (2013) Speakers Gail Fenske, The Skyscraper and the City: the Woolworth Building and the Making of Modern New York (2008) Those seven radiating arches, with an exterior of shiny stainless steel that brilliantly reflects sunlight, have made the Chrysler a permanent grande dame of the Manhattan skyscraper set even. This discussion builds on several past lectures at The Skyscraper Museum by each speaker: the videos of these previous talks are highly recommended as background. But, as Willis argues, most “corporate” buildings included a significant portion of rental space, and from the 1890s, speculative real estate drove both the height and volume of high-rise construction. Certainly, corporate headquarters, “branding,” and competition played a role in the inspiration and investment in early skyscrapers, as Fenske illustrates. and especially in New York City in the last decades of the 19th century. The idea of “corporate architecture” as applied to skyscrapers needs new scrutiny, especially in the early age of the rise of the corporation in the U.S. Yet, one can argue that the most basic commonality in the vast majority of skyscrapers is that they are buildings erected to produce space for rent: i.e., all these uses are urban commercial architecture. The program focuses on use, which architects generally call “program.” Office, residential, manufacturing, and commercial (meaning rental) are the terms that generally describe the different uses of high-rise buildings. commercial – and ask: “What do those words mean, and how do they apply to skyscraper history?” 43-25 43rd Street, Queens, 1940 63-45 Wetherole Street, Queens, 1936 135-18 Northern Boulevard, Queens, 1937 166-02 Jamaica Avenue, Queens, 1938 Astoria. Two scholars of the skyscraper, Gail Fenske and Carol Willis address an opposition that has long characterized the framework for understanding the history of tall buildings – corporate vs.
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