Architectural historians and authors Andrew S. Dolkart and Anne Walker will join forces in this program on the architectural firms Warren & Wetmore and Schultze & Weaver. To an astonishing degree, the designers of these two firms, closely related in practice and projects, dominated the commissions in the Grand Central district's – often called Terminal City – first phase of development from c.1906 to 1931. They designed the better part of all the buildings erected above the railyard from 42nd to 50th Street, largely hotels and swank apartments. Stately on the exterior and opulent within, the collective effect of their architecture was to create a high-rise lifestyle for High Society.

Andrew S. Dolkart Andrew S. Dolkart is an architectural historian, preservationist, and Professor at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, where he was Director of the Historic Preservation Program from 2008-2016. He is the author of numerous books on the architecture and urban development of New York City, focusing in particular on the city’s everyday, vernacular building types. These include the award-winning volumes Morningside Heights: A History of Its Architecture and Development; Biography of a Tenement House in New York City: An Architectural History of 97 Orchard Street; and The Row House Reborn: Architecture and Neighborhoods in New York City 1908-1929. He wrote about the architecture of Schultze & Weaver in "Millionaires' Elysiums: The Luxury Apartment Hotels of Schultze and Weaver," for "The American Hotel" issue of The Journal of Decorative and Propaganda Arts in the 2005 issue (Vol. 25).

Anne Walker Anne Walker is a co-author with Peter Pennoyer on a series of stunning monographs on American architectural firms of the early twentieth century, including The Architecture of Delano & Aldrich (2003), The Architecture of Warren & Wetmore (2006), The Architecture of Grosvenor Atterbury (2009), New York Transformed: The Architecture of Cross & Cross (2014), and Harrie T. Lindeberg and the American Country House (2017). Anne is a graduate of the Chapin School and Middlebury College. She received her MS degree in History Preservation and Conservation from Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation.

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