Anne Walker

A native New Yorker, architectural historian and author Anne Walker graduated from Middlebury College and holds a Master's Degree in Historic Preservation from Columbia University. In 2000, she joined the firm of Peter Pennoyer Architects and has since collaborated with Peter Pennoyer on several books on the history of twentieth-century American architecture, including The Architecture of Delano & Aldrich, The Architecture of Warren & Wetmore, The Architecture of Grosvenor Atterbury, New York Transformed: The Architecture of Cross & Cross and, most recently, Harrie T. Lindeberg and the American Country House. She is the author of Peter Pennoyer Architects: Apartments, Townhouses and Country Houses, and co-author of The Finest Rooms in America with Thomas Jayne, A House in the Country with Pennoyer and Katie Ridder and Life at the Top: New York’s Most Exceptional Apartment Buildings with Kirk Henckels. Anne is an adjunct professor at New York University and has appeared as a commentator in National Geographic’s television series “American Mansion.” She is a winner of the 2007 and 2009 Architectural Monograph Publication Award from the Victorian Society in America, Metropolitan Chapter and received an Honorable Mention from the American Society of Interior Designers Educational Foundation/Joel Polsky Prize in 2003. She and Pennoyer also received a special citation of merit at the 2014 New York City Book Awards for their series of books on New York architecture. She currently lives in New Canaan with her husband and three kids.