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Peter M.Wolf
Peter M. Wolf' is an American author, land planning and urban policy authority, investment manager, and philanthropist. He has been awarded honors and grants for his writing and scholarship by the National endowment for the Arts, Ford Foundation,  Graham Foundation,  Fulbright Commission, New York State Council on the Arts, and National Research and Education Trust Fund. He has been elected to serve on the Executive Committee of the Architectural League of New York, New York Cultural Council, as Chairman of the Board of Fellows of the Institute for Architecture and Urban studies, Chairman of the Van Alen Institute, National Academy of Design Advisory Board, and Founder and first Chairman of The Thomas Moran trust, Inc. He serves as a Trustee of Guild Hall and The Village Preservation Society in East Hampton, a director of the Franklin Realty Company in New Orleans, and has been a Visiting Scholar at the American Academy in Rome. A former member of the Museum of Modern Art Contemporary Arts Council, he is currently a member of the Whitney Museum of American Art Library Fellows and the Institute for Private Investors. He lives in New York.

EARLY BIOGRAPHY
Peter wolf was born in New Orleans. He attended Metairie Park Country Day, Phillips Exeter Academy, Yale University (B.A.), Tulane University (M.A.) and New York University's Institute of Fine Arts (PhD). 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. ==References== Wolf, Peter, Eugène Hénard and the Beginning of Urbanism in Paris 1900-1914, International Federation for Housing and Planning, Paris, and Centre de Recherche d'Urbanisme, The Hague, 1968. In 1969 it became the basis for a solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. .

His career in urbanism began at Wilbur Smith Associates, where he engaged in land planning focused on issues related to transportation. He became an independent consultant, then Chairman of the Board of Fellows of The Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies.

During the the period of 1970 to 1982 he was primarily active as a professor at Cooper Union, and as a board member and project participant at the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies.

The Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies was founded in 1967 as a non-profit independent agency concerned with research, education, and development in architecture and urbanism, chartered by the Board of Regents of the State University of New York. During this period, besides independent writing, consulting and IAUS management, he participated in numerous Institute studies including: co-director with Peter Eisenman of Phase II, "The Street as a Component of the Urban Environment" (1971-1973);  co-director with Kenneth Frampton, "Low Rise High Density Prototype" (1971-1973); co-director with Arthur Baker, and Kenneth Frampton of "Application of the Prototype to Community Board 2, Fox Hills, Staten Island, New York" (1971-1973); and director, Union Square Redevelopment Program (1972-1973).

As an Adjunct Professor at the Cooper Union in the School of Architecture (1971-1987) he taught architects in a lecture/seminar format about the issues of urbanism, wih special emphasis on encouraging innovative thinking and clarity in presentation. During this time he authored numerous studies related to lad use, open spacce planning, reinvention of the suburban street, and published magazine articles of architectural and land use planning analysis and criticism in venues as diverse as Marsyas, Art in America , the Architectural Forum, , Design Quarterly , The Amacus Journal , American Planning Association Journal.

His professional studies and writing were commissioned by communities, corporations, and non-profit entities including Pan American World Airways, the town of Colonie, New York, New York State Council on the Arts, National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on Architecture, Shaker Central Trust, Fund, Historical Society of Colonie, New York, the town of East Hampon, New York, Manhattan Community Board 5, Manhattan Borough President, United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, and for various large private land owners in Houston, Aspen, and Bucks County, Pennsylvania.

Recent Biography & Books

Since the 1970's wolf has continued a simultaneous career of professional work, writing, and philanthropic endeavors; while he continues to write professional studies, his primary publications have been books.

As owner of Peter Wolf Associates, he continued representing private land owners and communities in land studies and land investment management projects in the 1970s and 1980s. Thereafter his practice evolved into an investment management firm. He is now certified as a General Registered Representative (series 7), a Registered Securities Agent (series 63), and a Registered Investment Advisor (Series 65), as well as a licensed real estate broker.