Anne Walker (born May 21, 1973,

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) is an

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and author in New York City. She graduated from the

Chapin School Chapin School is an all-girls independent day school in New York City's Upper East Side neighborhood in Manhattan. History Maria Bowen Chapin opened "Miss Chapin's School for Girls and Kindergarten for Boys and Girls" in 1901. The school origi ...

, from

Middlebury College Middlebury College is a private liberal arts college in Middlebury, Vermont. Founded in 1800 by Congregationalists, Middlebury was the first operating college or university in Vermont. The college currently enrolls 2,858 undergraduates from all ...

, and received a master's degree in

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from

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. In 2000, she joined Peter Pennoyer Architects in New York City, where she has collaborated with

Peter Pennoyer Peter Morgan Pennoyer FAIA (born on February 19, 1957) is an architect and the principal of Peter Pennoyer Architects, an architecture firm based in New York City. Pennoyer, his four partners and his fifty associates have an international practice ...

on several books regarding the history of twentieth-century American architecture. Walker serves as a

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Emeritus of the

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Books

* ''Peter Pennoyer Architects: Apartments, Townhouses, Country Houses'', The Vendome Press, 2010. * ''The Finest Rooms in America'', Rizzoli, 2010, with Thomas Jayne. * ''The Ford Plantation Architectural Pattern Book'', 1999, co-author, with Donald M. Rattner. * ''The Architecture of

Delano & Aldrich Delano & Aldrich was an American Beaux-Arts architectural firm based in New York City. Many of its clients were among the wealthiest and most powerful families in the state. Founded in 1903, the firm operated as a partnership until 1935, when Ald ...

'', W. W. Norton, 2003, co-author, with Peter Pennoyer. * ''The Architecture of

Warren & Wetmore Warren and Wetmore was an architecture firm in New York City which was a partnership between Whitney Warren (1864–1943) and Charles Delevan Wetmore (June 10, 1866 – May 8, 1941), that had one of the most extensive practices of its time and ...

'', W. W. Norton, 2006, co-author, with Peter Pennoyer. * ''Frank M. Snyder’s Building Details'', W. W. Norton, 2007, co-author, with Peter Pennoyer, of an introduction. * ''The Architecture of

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'', W. W. Norton, 2009, co-author, with Peter Pennoyer.

Awards

* Winner, Victorian Society in America's Metropolitan Chapter Annual Publication Award, 2010. * Winner, Victorian Society in America's Metropolitan Chapter Annual Publication Award, 2007. * Honorable Mention,

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Educational Foundation/Joel Polsky Prize, 2003.

References

External links

Peter Pennoyer Architects website

ICA & CA website
1973 births Middlebury College alumni Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation alumni Living people American architectural historians American women historians Chapin School (Manhattan) alumni Historians from New York (state) American art historians Women art historians 21st-century American women {{US-arch-historian-stub