Brooklyn
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New York
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) is an American
architectural historian
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.
She graduated from
Erasmus Hall High School
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, studied at
Smith College
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(1957 BA) and
New York University
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In 1832, th ...
, (Ph.D. 1965). Krinsky is a professor of twentieth-century
architectural history
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at New York University and a former President of the
Society of Architectural Historians
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Books
* ''Contemporary Native American Architecture'': ''Cultural Regeneration and Creativity'', Oxford University Press, 1996
* ''Synagogues of Europe: Architecture, History, Meaning'',
MIT Press
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, 1985; revised edition, MIT Press, 1986; Dover Publications reprint, 1996
* ''Europas Synagogen: Architecktur, 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 ntati: & 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