Peter M. Wolf
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| Born | New Orleans, Louisiana |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Author, educator, asset manager, land use authority |
| Awards | Ford 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 York City.
Peter Michael Wolf, a sixth-generation member of the Godchaux-Weis family, was born in New Orleans. He is the author of several books, including the 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 served as a board member and the publicity manager of the Yale Daily News. During his graduate studies, he was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship in Paris. His doctoral dissertation was published internationally 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.
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.
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); and Union Square Redevelopment Program (director, 1972–1973). From 1972–1982 Wolf served as chairman of the IAUS Board of Fellows and as a trustee.
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