Lee Gray

Background

About Lee Gray

Dr. Lee E. Gray is a Professor of Architectural History in the School of Architecture in the College of Arts + Architecture, and Interim Senior Associate Provost in the Division of Academic Affairs at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He received his Ph.D. in architectural history from Cornell University, his Masters in architectural history from the University of Virginia, and his undergraduate degrees in architecture from Iowa State University. He is the author of From Ascending Rooms to Express Elevators: A history of the Passenger Elevator in the 19th Century and since July 2003 he has written monthly articles on the history of elevators, escalators and moving sidewalks for Elevator World, the primary international trade journal for the vertical transportation industry. He served as the historian for the National Building Museum’s 2003 exhibit Up, Down, and Across: Elevators, Escalators and Moving Sidewalks and has appeared on the History Channel in Modern Marvels - Building a Skyscraper: The Human Environment, the National Geographic Channel in Big, Bigger, Biggest – Airport, and on PBS in NOVA: The Secret Life of Elevators.