
Carol Krinsky
Professor Of Art History
Publications:
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, l969. Essay, index.
Rockefeller Center, New York, Oxford University Press, 1978. Parts reprinted in
Johanna Gibson, ed., Case Studies in Academic Writing, Addison-Wesley-
Longman, 2002
Synagogues of Europe: Architecture, History, Meaning. New York/ Cambridge MA
Architectural History Foundation/ MIT Press, l985, rev. ed. New York, Dover
Publications, l996
Gordon Bunshaft of Skidmore Owings & Merrill, New York/Cambridge MA,
Architectural History Foundation/MIT Press, 1988
Europas Synagogen: Architektur, Geschichte, Bedeutung, Stuttgart, Deutsche
Verlags-Anstalt, l988
Contemporary Native American Architecture: Cultural Regeneration and Creativity,
New York, Oxford University Press, l996
Co-editor (with Kathryn A. Smith) Studies in Manuscript Illumination: A Tribute to
Lucy Freeman Sandler, London/Turnhout, Harvey Miller/Brepols, 2008
CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
“St. Petersburg-on-the-Hudson: The Albany Mall,” Art the Ape of Nature (Essays in
Honor of H.W. Janson), ed. L.F. Sandler and M. Barasch, New York, Abrams/
Prentice-Hall, l98l, pp. 771 -787
“Chicago and New York: Plans and Parallels,” Centennial Lectures. The Art Institute
of Chicago, Chicago, Contemporary Books, l983, pp. 219-235. Translated and
published in Boletin del Posgrado de Historia, Universidad Torcuato di Tella,
Buenos Aires, vol. 8, May, 2016
“Sister Cities: Architecture and Planning in the Twentieth Century,” Chicago and New
York: Architectural Interactions ed. J. Zukowsky, Chicago, l984, pp. 50-76
“Rockefeller Center,” Artistic Strategy and the Rhetoric of Power, ed. D. Castriota,
Carbondale/Edwardsville, l986, pp. l45-156
“Architecture,”New York, l940-l965, ed. L. Wallock, Fribourg/New York, Rizzoli/Office
du Livre, l988, pp. 88-121
“Ethnicity and Architecture: Native Americans’ and Others’,” Icon to Cartoon: A
Tribute to Sixten Ringbom, ed. M. Terttu Knapas and A. Ringbom (Studies
in Art History, 16), Helsinki, Taidehistorian Seura, 1995, pp. 109-124..
“Between Europe and the New World: Britain’s Place in Synagogue aArchitecture,"
Building Jerusalem: Jewish Architecture in Britain, ed. Sharman Kadish,
London/Portland OR, Vallentine/Mitchell, 1996, pp. 18-33
“Inventing Ethnic Architecture: American Indians and Others,” Architectural Studies
in Honor of Richard Krautheimer, ed. C. L. Striker, Mainz, Ph. von Zabern,
l996, pp. 87-90.
“Boltanski at Hellerau: Alltage. So it Goes,” in BauKunst/KunstBau. Festschrift zum
65 Geburtstag von Professor Jurgen Paul, ed., Gilbert Lupfer, Konstanze Rudert, Paul Sigel, Dresden, Hellerau-Verlag, 2000, pp. 162-169
“Solving Problems in Three Dimensions,” Kohn Pedersen Fox:Architecture and
Urbanism, New York, Rizzoli, 2002, pp. 18-23
“German Influence on Architecture in New York City between the World Wars,”
Dauer und Wechsel (Festschrift fur Harold Hammer-Schenk zum 60 Geburtstag),
Ed. Xenia Riemann, Christiane Salge, et al., Berlin, Lukas, 2004, pp.201-213
“The Skyscraper Ensemble in its Urban Context: Rockefeller Center,” The American
Skyscraper: Cultural Histories, ed. Roberta Moudry, New York, Cambridge
University Press, 2005, pp. 201-213
“New York City: How Its Port Shaped Its Architecture,” Port Cities: Dynamic Land-
Scapes and Global Networks, ed Carola Hein, London, Routledge, 2011, pp.
198-213
“Is There a Jewish Architecture?” Jewish Architecture in Europe, ed. A. Cohen-Mushlin,
H. Thies, B. Narkiss, Petersberg, Imhof, 2010 (Proceedings of the International Conference in Braunschweig, 8-11 October 2007), pp. 353-364
“New York City: How its Port Shaped its Streets and Building Locations,” Port Cities:
Dynamic Landscapes and Global Networks, ed. Carola Hein, London, Routledge,
2011,
“New York,” Typology—Hong Kong, Rome, New York, Buenos Aires (Review 11), ed.
Emanuel Christ and Christoph Gantenheim,Zurich, Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule and Park Books, 2012
“The Office Building Architecture of the Early 20th Century in New York,’” Stadtent-
wicklung zur Moderne, ed. Frank Pieter Hesse, Hamburg, ICOMOS, 2012 also
posted on ICOMOS Website 2012 as “New York’s Skyscrapers 1880-1940”
“Religious Architecture and Art in New York City, ca. 1965-85,” Religion and Art in the Heart of Modern Manhattan: St. Peter’s Church and the Louise Nevelson Chapel,
Ed. Aaron Rosen, London/Burlington, Ashgate (now Informa), 2015 pp.43-71
Selected Articles
“Romanesque Architecture and Some Eighteenth Century Critics,” Gesta l964 #1-2,
pp. 20-21
“Seventy-Eight Vitruvius Manuscripts,” Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld
Institutes 30, l967, pp. 36-70
“A View of the Palazzo Medici,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians
28, l969, pp. 133-135
“Representations of the Temple of Jerusalem before 1500,” Journal of the Warburg and
Courtauld Institutes 33, l970, pp. 1-19
“Cesariano and the Renaissance without Rome,” Arte Lombarda 16, 1971, pp. 211-218
“Rockefeller Center,” Antiques l07, July-August, l979, pp. 478-486
“The Chrysler Preserved,” Art in America 67, July-August l979, pp. 80-87.
“The Movement to Preserve Architectural Records,” Journal of the American Institute
of Architects 68, March, l9979, pp l40+
“Hector Guimard’s Art Nouveau Synagogue in Paris,” Journal of Jewish Art 6, l979,
pp. l05-111
“American Architectural Records: Creating Order and Organization,” Restorator 4,
1980, pp. 115-ff/. (with Catha G. Rambusch)
“l50 Years of NYU Buildings,” New York University Education Quarterly 12 #3,
l98l, pp. l8-28
“The Fred F. French Building: Mesopotamia in Manhattan,” Antiques 121 #1, l982,
pp. 284-291.
“Preservation of Jewish Monuments,” Jewish Ethnology and Folklore Newsletter
6 #1-4, l983-84, pp. ll-12
“The Gates of the Grove Synagogue,” Easthampton Star 12/17/87 reprinted in Faith
and Form l990 and excerpted in Kunst und Kirche Jan., l99l, pp. 20-23
“Cultural Identity in Modern Native American Architecture: A Case Study, “ Journal
of Architectural Education, 49 #4, May, 1996, pp. 237-245. (with Tony Atkin)
“The Sculpture at Rockefeller Center,” Sculpture Review. XLVIII #l, l999, pp. 8-15
“Karl May’s Western Novels and Aspects of their Continuing Influence, “ American Indian Culture and Research Journal XXIII 2, August, l999, pp.53-72
“Native Americans: Contemporary Architecture,” Encyclopedia of the Great Plains,
ed. David Wishart, Lincoln, University of Nebraska Press, 2004
“…And Architecture of Washington’s Newest Museum,” Wall Street Journal, Dec. 6,
2004 (about the National Museum of the American Indian)
“State of the Field: Studies of Identity in Modern Architecture,” Anales de
investigaciones estéticas, 26, #85, 2004, pp. 31-45
“The Synagogues of Poznan,” Polin: East European Jewish Affairs 20, 2007, pp. 431-445
“Synagogue Architecture,” YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe 2008
“19th Century Synagogues” Cambridge Dictionary of the Jewish Religion, ed., Judith
Baskin, Cambridge University Press, 2008
“How Wallace Harrison and Gordon Bunshaft Became Famous,” DoCoMoMo
Conference Proceedings, VIII International Conference, 2004, 2008
“Art Deco Aboard Normandie,” Seaport 45 #2, 2010, pp. 28-35
“Stieglitz and the New Architecture,” Seaport 45 #4, 2010, pp. 16-19
“Religious Architecture in Modern Times: Against the Art Historical Mainstream,” La
Imagen sagrada y sagralizada II (XXVIII Coloquio internacional de Historia del
Arte II), ed. Peter Krieger, Mexico City, Universida Nacional Autonoma, Instituto
de Investigaciones Esteticas, 2011, pp. 385-403
“Windows for Abstract and Representational Devotion: Glass in Religious Buildings of
The United States ca 1945-1980,” Kunstlicht, 2014, pp.
“The Turin-Milan Hours: Revised Dating and Attribution,” in Journal
of the Historians of Netherlandish Art, 2014 #2 (online, unpaged)
“Why Hand G of the Turin-Milan Hours was not Jan van Eyck,” Artibus et Historiae
#71, 2015, pp. 31-60
“Reception of the Baroque in US university textbooks in art history,”Journal of Art
Historiography,” 15, Dec. 2016 10 pages, https://arthistoriography.wordpress.
com/2016/12/01 l5/ CHK1
“The Empire State Plaza, Revisited,” MŌD, 2, 2017, pp. (in press, spring 2017)
Contact Information
Carol Krinsky
Professor Of Art History chk1@nyu.edu 303 Silver Center100 Washington Square E
New York, NY 10003
Phone: (212) 998-8186