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Wendy Evans Joseph
FAIA, LEED AP
Born1955 (age 68–69)[6]
NationalityUnited States
Alma materUniversity of Pennsylvania, Harvard University
Occupations
  • Architect
  • Interior designer
SpouseJeffrey V. Ravetch (2001—present)
AwardsRome Prize in Architecture, 1984[7]
PracticeJoseph Studio[1]
Projects
  • Greenporter Hotel and Spa
  • The Women's Museum[2]
DesignInn at Price Tower[3][4][2][5]

Wendy Evans Joseph, FAIA LEED AP,[8] (born 1955)[6] is an American architect. Her work spans architecture, placemaking and exhibition design, primarily for cultural and educational institutions, as well as private residences, and performance spaces.[9][10][11] Joseph's notable projects include the Rockefeller University’s Campus Community Pedestrian Bridge, her renovation of the Snug Harbor Music Hall,[12] her "Americans" exhibition at the National Museum of the American Indian,[13] and the "Nature—Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial" at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in 2019.[14] She is the principal of Joseph Studio, which she founded in 1998.[8] Joseph is the president of the National Academy of Design,[15] and a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects (FAIA).[16][17]

Early life and education edit

Joseph was born in 1955 to Melvin I. Evans and Fran R. Evans.[18][19] She studied at the University of Pennsylvania and graduated with Bachelor of Arts in 1977. She then worked for an architectural firm for a year[17] before getting into Harvard University Graduate School of Design where she was awarded the Henry Adams Medal[20] and the James Templeton Kelley Thesis Prize[21] and later graduated with a Master in Architecture in 1981.[19]

Projects edit

In the early eighties Joseph worked on the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum as a senior designer.[22] In 2000, she designed The Women's Museum.[23] And in 2003, she designed the interiors of Inn at Price Tower.[4] Her other notable projects include the Rockefeller University’s Campus Community Pedestrian Bridge,[1] the National Butterfly Center in Mission, Texas,[24] the renovation of the Music Hall of the Snug Harbor Cultural Center in Staten Island, NY,[25] Americans' exhibition at the National Museum of the American Indian that opened in 2017,[13] and Nature–Cooper Hewitt Triennial at the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum in 2019.[14]

Career edit

Fresh out of Harvard University Graduate School of Design, she worked with architect Henry N. Cobb for Pei Cobb Freed & Partners, where she eventually stayed for twelve years—seven of which as a senior associate.[17] While working for Pei Cobb Freed & Partners, she was the senior designer for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum project.[22]

She was a Fellow at the American Academy in Rome in 1984,[26] and the president of the New York chapter of the American Institute of Architects until 2000.[20][27]

In 1998, she launched her architectural practice, Joseph Studio, in New York.[1][19]

In 2000, Joseph was hired by the National Jazz Museum in Harlem.[28] Later in October that year, and as part of renovations for the former Dallas' Coliseum in the Fair Park Joseph designed The Women's Museum.[23][29][30][22][31]

Joseph designed the interiors of Inn at the Price Tower hotel.[4][32][33][34]

Joseph is a member of the board of American Ballet Theater and was a member of the board of the New York Hall of Science.[19] She was the chairwoman of the board of overseers at the Graduate School of Fine Arts at the University of Pennsylvania[19]

Joseph was the president of the Architectural League of New York,[35] and as of 2022 she still sits on its board of directors.[36]

In 2009, her architectural monograph Pop Up Architecture, to which Paul Goldberger contributed an essay, was published by Melcher Media.[10][37][38]

Bibliography edit

  • Pop Up Architecture (Melcher Media, 2009), with Paul Goldberger[a] ISBN 978-1595910608

Awards edit

Personal life edit

Joseph was married to Peter Joseph, a banker.[b][39] In 2001, she married Jeffrey V. Ravetch, a professor of molecular genetics and immunology at Rockefeller University.[19]

Notes edit

  1. ^ Goldberger contributed an essay.
  2. ^ Her second husband

References edit

  1. ^ a b c Gamolina, Julia (June 27, 2019). "Knees Bent: Wendy Evans Joseph on Making Architecture and Giving Back".
  2. ^ a b "Architecture". Price Tower Arts Center.
  3. ^ "Oklahoma NHL Price Tower". Retrieved November 7, 2022.
  4. ^ a b c Schmertz, Mildred (May 31, 2003). "AD Hotels: Inn at Price Tower". www.architecturaldigest.com. Architectural Digest. Retrieved August 25, 2022. Architect Joseph, by designing almost all the hotel's furnishings, as well as murals, throw pillows and rugs, understood that this effort would honor Wright's own tradition of total design.
  5. ^ Kahn, Eve M. (December 19, 2002). "CURRENTS: ARCHITECTURE; Frank Lloyd Wright's Quirky Oklahoma Tower Turns Into a Quirky Hotel". The New York Times. Retrieved August 16, 2022.
  6. ^ a b "Wendy Evans Joseph – National Academicians – eMuseum". National Academy of Design. Retrieved August 10, 2022.
  7. ^ a b "Wendy Evans Joseph – Price Tower Arts Center". Retrieved August 17, 2022. In 1984, she won the Rome Prize in Architecture and was a Fellow at the American Academy in Rome.
  8. ^ a b "Wendy Evans Joseph, Up From the People: Protest and Change in DC". Archived from the original on May 20, 2022. Retrieved December 20, 2022.
  9. ^ Louie, Elaine (August 17, 2011). "Ken Smith's Pod Planters Land on a Midtown Terrace". The New York Times – via NYTimes.com.
  10. ^ a b Louie, Elaine (October 7, 2009). "Rising Right Before Your Eyes". The New York Times. Retrieved August 25, 2022.
  11. ^ Brown, Brenda J. (June 2004). "The Poetry of Passages". Landscape Architecture Magazine. 94 (6): 102–113. JSTOR 44675126. Retrieved August 15, 2022. p. 111: Both these elements are part of a passage system by architect Wendy Evans Joseph that connects with the campus's tunnel system to the northeast and to the north-west points to the main campus allées.
  12. ^ "Winner: Snug Harbor Cultural Center Music Hall Addition by Studio Joseph". September 20, 2020.
  13. ^ a b Michelson, Alan (October 29, 2018). "Designing Americans: A Conversation with Wendy Evans Joseph".
  14. ^ a b "Nature—Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial SEGD". Retrieved November 27, 2022.
  15. ^ "NAD". nationalacademy.org.
  16. ^ "Wendy Evans Joseph, FAIA". www.themodern.org.
  17. ^ a b c "Wendy Evans Joseph". Newsmakers. Gale (publisher). March 1, 2006.
  18. ^ "Paid Notice: Deaths EVANS, MELVIN I." The New York Times. December 16, 1998.
  19. ^ a b c d e f "WEDDING; Wendy Joseph, Jeffrey Ravetch". The New York Times. October 28, 2001. The bride, 45, has an architectural practice in New York bearing her name. She was until last year the president of the New York chapter of the American Institute of Architects.
  20. ^ a b "Wendy Evans Joseph". Price Tower Arts Center Price Tower Arts Center.
  21. ^ "Architect Wendy Evans Joseph to Present 'Future of Community Learning' Lecture on Sept. 17". University of Arkansas. September 13, 2018. Retrieved November 26, 2022.
  22. ^ a b c Dillon, David (November 2001). "Women's Museum Fair Park, Dallas, Texas: Wendy Evans Joseph's New Museum Inside a 1909 State Fair Pavilion Respects the Past But Points to the Future as the Place to Be". Architectural Record. 189 (11). BNP Media: 158–160. ISSN 0003-858X. ProQuest 222159649.
  23. ^ a b Gregory, Mike (2009). Expo Legacies: Names, Numbers, Facts & Figures. AuthorHouse. p. 241. ISBN 9781438980737. In less than four years $30 million was raised, and with the help of architect Wendy Evans Joseph, the old Coliseum was renovated and redesigned as the Women's Museum, opening on September 29, 2000.
  24. ^ "National Butterfly Center". the Center now boasts an impressive, new Visitor's Pavilion, designed by Wendy Evans Joseph, principal architect of the Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC, and the Women's Museum in Dallas, Texas.
  25. ^ "Plans for expanding Snug Harbor Music Hall underway". October 29, 2015.
  26. ^ "Board of Trustees American Academy in Rome". American Academy in Rome. Retrieved August 10, 2022.
  27. ^ Spangler, Todd (November 23, 2001). "Wright classic endangered". Marysville Appeal Democrat. Retrieved November 23, 2001.
  28. ^ "Jazz Museum Hires Wendy Evans Joseph". New York Construction News. 49 (4). McGraw Hill Publications Company: 9. November 20, 2000. ISSN 0028-7164. ProQuest 228203081.
  29. ^ Threadgill, Kay MacCasland (November 16, 2009). Exploring Dallas with Children: A Guide for Family Activities. Taylor Trade Publications. p. 48. ISBN 9781589794337. Designed by New York architect Wendy Evans Joseph, the three-level museum celebrates the history and contributions of women in America.
  30. ^ "The Historic Heart of Fair Park - Old Coliseum_Former Women's Museum". www.watermelon-kid.com. The Watermelon Kid. Retrieved August 10, 2022. In October 2000, the old Coliseum became the Women's Museum after F. & S. Partners renovated both the exterior and the cavernous interior at a cost of about $25 million. Wendy Evans Joseph of New York was the project's design architect.
  31. ^ "Leaders kick off construction of national women's museum". The Port Arthur News. Dallas. March 9, 1999. p. 5.
  32. ^ Dillon, David (July 2003). "Wendy Evans Joseph turns an iconic work by Frank Lloyd Wright into THE INN AT PRICE TOWER with no edginess lost". Architectural Record. 191 (7): 118. ProQuest 222169048. Retrieved August 25, 2022.
  33. ^ Kaufman, David (2003). "Design at a price: Wright's historic Oklahoma tower dons a new interior". Hospitality Design. 25 (3): 4. ISSN 1062-9254. ProQuest 233472274. But for New York-based Wendy Evans Joseph, recently commissioned to install a new hotel and restaurant in Wright's legendary 1956 Price Tower Arts Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma, with just one previous hotel to her credit, the experience proved inspiring, not intimidating.
  34. ^ Kurt, Kelly (February 16, 2003). "Wright's Price Tower". Sandusky Sunday Register. Bartlesville, Oklahoma. p. 37.
  35. ^ "Wendy Evans Joseph". Retrieved August 25, 2022. She was the President of the New York Chapter of the American Institute of Architects, Chairman of the AIA National Committee on Design, and past-president of the Architectural League of New York.
  36. ^ "Board of Directors 2022–2023". The Architectural League of New York. Retrieved August 25, 2022.
  37. ^ McManus, David (February 5, 2010). "Pop Up Architecture Book: New York City Buildings". e-architect.
  38. ^ Shapiro, Gary (January 2010). "Buildings That Jump Off the Page". ARTnews. Vol. 109, no. 1. ISSN 0004-3273. ProQuest 195394703. Looking at the installation, he notes that Wendy Evans Joseph has found inventive ways to showcase intricate fragile works on paper by such artists as Kara Walker, Jane South, and Olafur Eliasson. Now, Joseph has applied that talent to making an elaborate paper artwork of her own: a pop-up book of her building projects, Wendy Evans Joseph: Pop-Up Architecture.
  39. ^ Brennan, Carol (2007). Newsmakers 2006 Cumulation. Gale. pp. 201–202. ISBN 978-1-4144-1886-5.



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