Carol Herselle Krinsky (born 1937 Brooklyn, New York) is an American architectural historian.

She graduated from Erasmus Hall High School,^[1] studied at Smith College (1957 BA) and New York University, (Ph.D. 1965). Krinsky is a professor of twentieth-century architectural history at New York University^[2] and a former President of the Society of Architectural Historians.

Books

• Contemporary Native American Architecture: Cultural Regeneration and Creativity, Oxford University Press, 1996
• Synagogues of Europe: Architecture, History, Meaning, MIT Press, 1985; revised edition, MIT Press, 1986; Dover Publications reprint, 1996
• Europas Synagogen: Architektur, 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[m]entati: & 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

Awards

• 1986: National Jewish Book Award in the Visual Arts category for Synagogues of Europe^[3]