Carol Willis is the founder, director, and curator of the Skyscraper Museum.
[1] She is also adjunct associate professor of Urban Studies at Columbia University.
[2] Herbert Muschamp described Willis in The New York Times as the “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.”[3] Willis graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Boston University (B.A Art History, 1971.)
)[4] Willis is the author of Form Follows Finance: Skyscrapers and Skylines in New York and Chicago.
[5] Willis is married to Mark Willis, a banker and adjunct professor of urban planning at NYU.