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Joseph was born in 1955[1] to Melvin I. Evans and Fran R. Evans.[2][3] She studied at the University of Pennsylvania[4] and graduated with Bachelor of Arts in 1977. She then worked for the architectural firm Architectural Resources Cambridge[5] for a year[6] before getting into Harvard University Graduate School of Design where she was awarded two prizes for her thesis: the Henry Adams Medal from the American Institute of Architects[6] and the James Templeton Kelley Thesis Prize. She graduated with a Master in Architecture in 1981.[7]
Career
After graduate school Joseph she worked with Pei Cobb Freed & Partners, where she stayed for twelve years, inclduing seven years as a senior associate.[4] In 1984 she was a fellow at the American Academy in Rome.[8] In 1996,[9] she launched her architectural practice, Joseph Studio.[5][10]
In 2003, she designed the interiors of Inn at Price Tower,[16][17] which is located inside the Frank Lloyd Wright skyscraper, Price Tower.[18][19] This work was honored with a Business Week/Architectural Record award in 2003.[20]: 95 Other projects led by Joseph include the Rockefeller University’s Campus Community Pedestrian Bridge,[5][21] the National Butterfly Center in Mission, Texas,[22] the renovation of the Music Hall of the Snug Harbor Cultural Center in Staten Island, NY,[23] Americans' exhibition at the National Museum of the American Indian that opened in 2017,[24] and Nature–Cooper Hewitt Triennial at the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum in 2019.[25]
Selected publications
Joseph, Wendy Evans; Goldberger, Paul (2009). Pop Up Architecture. New York: Melcher Media, Inc. ISBN978-1-59591-060-8.[26]
Awards and honors
Joseph received the Rome Prize in architecture from the American Academy in Rome in 1984.[5] She was elected a fellow of the American Institute of Architects[6][20]: 234 in 2013.[7] In 2012 she was elected academician of the National Academy of Design.[7]
Joseph's second husband, Peter Joseph, died in 1998;[27] they lived in Long Island.[28] In 2001, she married Jeffrey V. Ravetch, a professor of molecular genetics and immunology at Rockefeller University;[3] as of 2011 they lived in Manhattan.[29] In 2002 Joseph designed an observatory for Ravetch's son, Ethan.[30]
^ ab"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.
^"Off the Record". Architectural Record. Internet Archive. New York City : The Record and Guide. October 2002. p. 32.{{cite magazine}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
^Gregory, Mike (2009). Expo Legacies: Names, Numbers, Facts & Figures. AuthorHouse. p. 241. ISBN9781438980737. 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.
^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.
^Kaufman, David (2003). "Design at a price: Wright's historic Oklahoma tower dons a new interior". Hospitality Design. 25 (3): 4. ISSN1062-9254. ProQuest233472274. 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.
^Brown, Brenda J. (June 2004). "The Poetry of Passages". Landscape Architecture Magazine. 94 (6): 102–113. JSTOR44675126. 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.
^Hernandez, Martha L. (January 21, 2010). "Keep them coming". The Monitor. pp. A26. Retrieved February 2, 2025.
Shapiro, Gary (January 2010). "Buildings That Jump Off the Page". ARTnews. Vol. 109, no. 1. ISSN0004-3273. ProQuest195394703. 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.
