Draft:Wendy Evans Joseph

Wendy Evans Joseph, FAIA LEED AP, (born 1955) 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. Joseph's notable projects include the Rockefeller University’s Campus Community Pedestrian Bridge, her renovation of the Snug Harbor Music Hall, her "Americans" exhibition at the National Museum of the American Indian, and the "Nature—Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial" at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in 2019. She is the principal of Joseph Studio, which she founded in 1998. Joseph is the president of the National Academy of Design, and a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects (FAIA).

Early life and education
Joseph was born in 1955 to Melvin I. Evans and Fran R. Evans. 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 before getting into Harvard University Graduate School of Design where she was awarded the Henry Adams Medal and the James Templeton Kelley Thesis Prize and later graduated with a Master in Architecture in 1981.

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

Career
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. While working for Pei Cobb Freed & Partners, she was the senior designer for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum project.

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

In 1998, she launched her architectural practice, Joseph Studio, in New York.

In 2000, Joseph was hired by the National Jazz Museum in Harlem. 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.

Joseph designed the interiors of Inn at the Price Tower hotel.

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. She was the chairwoman of the board of overseers at the Graduate School of Fine Arts at the University of Pennsylvania

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

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

Awards

 * Rome Prize in architecture (1984)

Personal life
Joseph was married to Peter Joseph, a banker. In 2001, she married Jeffrey V. Ravetch, a professor of molecular genetics and immunology at Rockefeller University.