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Criticism

“When one looks back over the years of Wolf’s practice one cannot be struck by the way his architecture has matured through to complex layered civic works, such as the Center of Regional Government in Toulouse. As he has grown older, his work has deepened ... Perhaps, in the last analysis, the most singular quality of his expression resides in it's sublime attitude towards light ... hermetic skin-like material appears quite literally to suffuse with the light that emanates from its surface.”

Kenneth Frampton
Critic and Historian, Ware Professor of Architecture at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation at Columbia University





“Harry Wolf is one of the most gifted architects today, indeed in the context of the world only a relatively small number of people know how important he is to architecture. He is a big talent, a rationalist with poetic impact to his work. Not just meat and potatoes functionalism but a major spiritual commitment.”

Allen Temko
San Francisco Chronicle





“...to a modern society that is full of errant energy, Wolf offers his quietly platonic buildings as ameliorates. They absorb rather than reflect chaos and exude harmonious order. Most important perhaps is Wolf’s preoccupation with the physical measure of man – a concern that Le Corbusier also expressed in his modular system – as the basis for creation of a structure that will appeal to human emotions, intellect and psyche.

“Wolf is an architect in search of a platonic essence ... in his drawings for 747 South Flower Street he seeks to unify a massing, plan, structural system and human proportion through geometric solution that, like a genetic code will give form and meaning to every part of the building."

Carol McMichael Reese
Favrot IV Professor of Architecture, Tulane University





“The surprising work of Harry Wolf, an architect pursuing his own patient search ... finding a language of geometry and silence in several works achieve an unusual, singular richness”

Vittorio Lampugnani
Casabella Magazine





“Indeed, the whole project pursues at the various scales the objective of re-establishing a relationship between man and nature, at the same time creating a new sense of space and time; all this is communicated in a subtle and hardly perceptible way. Not a clear sign, but a symbol, something revealing itself slowly and in the course of time.”

            Mirko Zardini
                Casabella Magazine












Publications

& Lectures







                     Click here to view a lecture given by Harry Wolf at ESAD School of Art and Design in Porto, Portugal

2016           HAROLD PINTER, ORTEGA & GASSET AND OTHER ROLLING STONES LECTURE APRIL

2013             NCNB / RIVERGATE TOWER LECTURE NOVEMBER

2002           UNITED STATES COURTHOUSE

2001           ARCHITECTURE   FEBRUARY

1999           DAN KILEY: AMERICA’S MASTER LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT   MAY

1998           HISTORY OF THE NORTH CAROLINA CHAPTER OF THE A.I.A:
                    1913-1998
                    THE ARCHITECTURE OF DIPLOMACY

1996           DICTIONNAIRE DE L’ARCHITECTURE DU XXÈME SIÈCLE
                    KOREAN ARCHITECTS   JUNE

1995           MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: LIGHT CONSTRUCTION

1995           CATALOGOS DE ARQUITECTURA CONTEMPORÁNEA

1993           PROCESS ARCHITECTURE
                    ARCHITECTURE AND ENVIRONMENT
                    WATERFRONTS: CITIES RECLAIM THEIR EDGE
                    EDICIONES GG: THE ARCHITECTURE OF HARRY WOLF     
                    KOREAN ARCHITECTS   JULY
                    L’INDUSTRIA ITALIANA DEL CEMENTO   OCTOBER

1992          ARCHITECTURE CREE   SEPTEMBER
                    MODERN ARCHITECTURE, A CRITICAL HISTORY   KENNETH FRAMPTON

1991           100 CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECTS
                    FLORIDA ARCHITECT
                    DENATURED VISIONS   MUSEUM OF MODERN ART NEW YORK
                    DOMUS   MARCH

1990          CONTROSPAZIO, ARCHITETTURA URBANISTICA   MARCH
                    ARQUITECTURA DE NUEVA YORK
                    NEW YORK ARCHITECTS   VOL 3
                    ARCHITETTURE PER IL TERZO MILLENNIO
                    ARCHITECTURE MAGAZINE   JANUARY
                    CIVIL ENGINEERING   APRIL
                    CASABELLA   MARCH
                    OCULUS
                    COMPTON YEARBOOK
                    ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA

1989           NEW YORK ARCHITEKTUR   JUNE
                    PROGRESSIVE ARCHITECTURE   FEBRUARY
                    ARCHITECTURE MAGAZINE   MAY

1988          NEW YORK ARCHITECTS   VOL 2
                    LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE   DECEMBER

1987           CASABELLA   DECEMBER
                    JOURNAL OF ARCHITECTURAL EDUCATION
                    ARCHITETTURE DI PIETRA

1986           ARCHITECTURAL RECORD   FEBRUARY
                    THE NEW YORK TIMES    FEBRUARY
                    PROGRESSIVE ARCHITECTURE    FEBRUARY
                    ELLE MAGAZINE    NOVEMBER

1985           A+U ARCHITECTURE+URBANISM    AUGUST

1983           NORTH CAROLINA ARCHITECT    MAY
                    PERSPECTA 20
                    CASABELLA    APRIL

1982          ARCHITECTURAL RECORD    JANUARY

1980          GUIDE TO US ARCHITECTURE 1940-1980
                    EXECUTIVE STYLE

1979           ARCHITECTURAL RECORD    MARCH
                    ARCHITECTURAL RECORD    MAY

1978           CONTRACT INTERIORS   AUGUST
                    NORTH CAROLINA ARCHITECT   MARCH

1976          NORTH CAROLINA ARCHITECT    NOVEMBER
                    NORTH CAROLINA ARCHITECT   MARCH

1975           NORTH CAROLINA ARCHITECT    SEPTEMBER
                   ARCHITECTURAL RECORD   MARCH
                    ARCHITECTURAL RECORD    FEBRUARY

1974          THE NEW YORK TIMES    JUNE

                    AIA JOURNAL    MAY

1973           ARCHITECTURAL RECORD   JUNE

1972           ARCHITECTURAL RECORD    JANUARY

1971           PROGRESIVE ARCHITECTURE    NOVEMBER
                    AIA JOURNAL    JUNE
                    ARCHITECTURAL RECORD    MAY
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