Peter M. Wolf

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Peter M. Wolf
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Born
New Orleans, Louisiana
OccupationsAuthor, educator, asset manager, land use authority
AwardsFord Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, Graham Foundation

Peter M. Wolf is an American author, land planning and urban policy authority, investment manager, and philanthropist. He lives in New Orleans, Louisiana.

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Early biography

Peter Michael Wolf was born in New Orleans. [1] He is the author of several books, including the biography The Sugar King: Leon Godchaux, A New Orleans Legend, His Creole Slave, and His Jewish Roots and his memoir, My New Orleans, Gone Away – A Memoir of Loss and Renewal. Wolf attended Metairie Park Country Day School, Phillips Exeter Academy, Yale University (BA), Tulane University (MA), and New York University Institute of Fine Arts (PhD). At Yale, he was elected to the Manuscript Society and the Elizabethan Club, and was a board member and the publicity manager of the Yale Daily News . [2] During his graduate studies, he was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship in Paris. His doctoral dissertation was published in 1968, Eugène Hénard and the Beginning of Urbanism in Paris 1900–1914. In 1969, it became the basis for a solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. [3]

Wolf has been awarded grants for his writing and scholarship by the Ford Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, and the National Research and Education Trust Fund. He has twice been a visiting artist/scholar at the American Academy in Rome. [4]

Wolf's career in urbanism began at Wilbur Smith Associates, where he engaged in land planning focused on transportation. He began teaching urbanism as an adjunct professor at the School of Architecture at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in 1971, and continued in that role through 1987. Wolf also began working for the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies in 1971, participating in a number of research initiatives, including: "The Street as a Component of the Urban Environment" (co-director with architect Peter Eisenman, 1971–1973); "Low-Rise High-Density Prototype" (co-director with professor Kenneth Frampton, 1971–1973); [5] and Union Square Redevelopment Program (director, 1972–1973). From 1972–1982 Wolf was chairman of the IAUS Board of Fellows and as a trustee.

Between 1965 and 1990, Wolf published studies and articles related to land use and open space planning for the Office of the Manhattan Borough President, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, Pan American World Airways, and private land owners across the US. [6] His study, "Shaker Heritage Historic District," commissioned by the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, the Shaker Central Trust Fund, and the Historical Society of the Town of Colonie, New York, was instrumental in saving the first Shaker settlement in America, a National Register of Historic Places property. [7] [ better source needed ] In 1987, as the consultant to the Village of East Hampton, New York, he rewrote the East Hampton Village Residential Zoning Ordinance and, in 2002, he was senior advisor to the Town of East Hampton Comprehensive Plan. [8] [ better source needed ]

Recent biography

In 2010, Wolf founded and became chairman of the Thomas Moran Trust, a nonprofit organization aiming to restore the Thomas Moran House, the studio house and gardens of painter Thomas Moran and printmaker Mary Nimmo Moran, a National Historic Property.

Wolf's memoir, My New Orleans, Gone Away, was published by Delphinium Books in 2013. [9] The book, which reached the New York Times e-book best seller list in 2016, celebrates New Orleans and explores growing up as a Jew in the South. [10] [11]

Public service

Wolf has served on the New York Cultural Council, the Executive Committee of the Architectural League of New York, and the Advisory Board of the National Academy of Design. He was chairman of the Van Alen Institute in New York, New York and a trustee of One to World, a program for Fulbright Fellows and other foreign students in the greater New York area. [12] He was appointed to the New York State Advisory Board of The Trust for Public Land. He is currently an Advisory Board member of the Tulane University School of Architecture, a trustee of Guild Hall and the Village Preservation Society, both in East Hampton where he was a Town-appointed member of the Airport Planning Committee, Noise Subcommittee. [13]

Bibliography

Books

Exhibitions

References

  1. ↑ See Weis, 1908; Godchaux, 1971; Westerbrook, 2001.
  2. ↑ 1957 Class Book, Yale Banner Publications.
  3. ↑ Museum of Modern Art, press release for the exhibition, Urban Anticipations: Eugène Hénard, 1849–1923, July 31, 1969.
  4. ↑ Roster of Residents, Visiting Artists & Scholars, May 2001 and June 2012, records of the American Academy in Rome, Rome, Italy
  5. ↑ Policy and Design for Housing: Lessons of the Urban Development Corporation 1968–1975
  6. ↑ See Kempner Study, 1969; Sugarland Industries Study, 1970; HUD Study, 1971; Pan American Study, 1971; Lower Midtown Manhattan Study, 1972; Watervliet-Shaker Study, 1973.
  7. ↑ "Shaker Heritage Historic District: South Family Property, Design and Implementation Program," 1973.
  8. ↑ See East Hampton Zoning Study; and East Hampton Comprehensive Plan
  9. ↑ Delphinium Books website, page for My New Orleans Archived 2015-02-04 at the Wayback Machine
  10. ↑ Yardley. "Rising above Bias in the Big Easy". Archived from the original on 2016-06-01. Retrieved 2019-02-16.
  11. ↑ Groom. "The Place He Was Once From".
  12. ↑ One to World website: "Fulbrighters: Conversations With World Leaders." "One to World - Conversations with World Leaders". Archived from the original on 2015-05-28. Retrieved 2015-05-08.
  13. ↑ "East Hampton Village Zoning Study: A Report to The Trustees of East Hampton Village" April 1987
  14. ↑ Peter M. Wolf; International Federation for Housing and Planning; Centre de recherche d'urbanisme (1968). Eugène Hénard and the beginning of urbanism in Paris, 1900-1914. International Federation for Housing and Planning.
  15. ↑ Internet Archive page on Another Chance for Cities; Some Approaches to Architecture, Technology, and Town Planning: The Current Program of the New York State Urban Development Corporation. , accessed May 4, 2015
  16. ↑ Peter M. Wolf; New York State Urban Development Corporation; Whitney Museum of American Art (1970). Another chance for cities: some approaches to architecture, technology, and town planning: the current program of the New York State Urban Development Corporation. Whitney Museum of American Art.
  17. ↑ Ulrich Franzen; Paul Rudolph; Peter M. Wolf (1974). The Evolving City: Urban Design Proposals. Whitney Library of Design.
  18. ↑ Peter M. Wolf (1974). The future of the city . Watson-Guptill Publications; For the American Federation of Arts. ISBN   9780823071821.
  19. ↑ Peter M. Wolf (12 June 1981). Land in America: its value, use, and control . Pantheon Books. ISBN   978-0-394-50437-7.
  20. ↑ Peter Wolf (1 August 2001). Hot Towns: The Future of the Fastest Growing Communities in America. Rutgers University Press. pp. 288–. ISBN   978-0-8135-3043-7.
  21. ↑ Peter M. Wolf (31 August 2010). Land Use and Abuse in America: A Call to Action. Xlibris Corporation. ISBN   978-1-4535-5294-0. (self-published)
  22. ↑ Peter M. Wolf (9 July 2013). My New Orleans, Gone Away: A Memoir of Loss and Renewal. Delphinium Books. ISBN   978-1-4804-1345-0.
  23. ↑ Museum of Modern Art, press release for the exhibition, Another Chance for Housing, Low-Rise Alternatives, June 12, 1973.

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