Peter Waldman

Peter Waldman is an architect and educator. He believes architecture frames, with the help of celestial sources and essential gravity, the flows of this changing world. Waldman studied architecture from 1961-69, first at Princeton University, and later as a Peace Corps volunteer architect in Arequipa, Peru. He served his apprenticeship in the studios of Richard Meier briefly and more substantially with Michael Graves. Since the 1970s, he has been an architect and educator teaching first at Princeton, briefly at the University of Cincinnati, then at Rice University, and currently at the University of Virginia. The climatic condition has been the subject of built projects including the Parasol and Hurricane Houses in Houston; an Oasis for the Stegosaurus and the Trojan Horse in Galveston; and Parcel X, a Satyric campsite in North Garden, Virginia.

Published internationally in Global Architecture, Area, Architecture and, recently, the Yale Perspecta, Waldman was recognized by the Architectural League of New York as an Emerging Voice in 1983 and as a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome in 2000. His teaching has always benchmarked the beginning and the end and views architecture as a covenant with the world, again collaged in his forthcoming seminal folio, The Word Made Flesh.