Peter Vanderwarker is an internationally-regarded architectural and editorial photographer.  His work appears regularly in Architectural Record and Architectural Digest magazines, among others. His photography work is found in the collections of the Boston Athenaeum, the MIT Museum, and the Boston University Art Gallery.   He is also the author /co-author and photographer of several books, and is a columnist for the Boston Sunday Globe’s Cityscapes.

Mr. Vanderwarker holds a bachelor’s degree in Architecture from the University of California, Berkeley. He was a Loeb Fellow at the Harvard Graduate School of Design from 1996-1997.

Two sets from Mr. Vanderwarker’s collections are found on the library’s fourth floor.  The first are sets of side-by-side photographs of building and street scenes of Boston’s Tremont Street, taken from the same location, separated by about 50 years.  The second includes photographs taken by Mr. Vanderwarker during Boston’s "Big Dig" construction project.   

From the "Big Dig" Collection: