Architecture Department | Arthur Edwin Wolf

Bud Wolf has offered courses in Professional Practice, Project Management, and Marketing for Architects in the Architecture Program during the last twelve years; during this Spring Semester he will be leading a design studio investigating pre-fabricated housing. Mr. Wolf currently leads his own strategic planning and project management consulting practice, while teaching at Temple. This semester he is also a Visiting Lecturer at the Community College of Philadelphia (CCP), offering courses including Introduction to the Design Professions, Construction Materials, and Architectural History; he has also taught two design studios at CCP. He also served as a Visiting Lecturer for a year at Mississippi State University (teaching Third Year Design studio) and leading the Small Town Center, MSU Architectural School’s very successful
community outreach program. He has served as a visiting juror and lecturer at Cornell University, the University of Pennsylvania, Hartford University in Connecticut, and here at Temple.

With over thirty years of professional practice, principally as a Project Manager, Mr. Wolf has worked for large (SOM) and small scale design firms along the mid-Atlantic seaboard, as well as public sector agencies such as the Philadelphia City Planning Commission and the New York State Urban Development Corporation (housing user needs design criteria and business and civic development). His projects have ranged from:

•The historic reconstruction of Soldiers’ Huts at Valley Forge through the award winning adaptive renovations at Philadelphia’s Thirtieth St. Station and Frank Furness’ Wilmington Train Station

•from small scale housing projects in and around Philadelphia through Trammell Crow’s Jefferson Court, a large multi-use office and commercial complex in Georgetown, Washington, DC.

•from streetscapes for the Bicentennial in Philadelphia and a feasibility study for the renovation of the Temple University – Columbia Avenue Subway Station through the environmentally sensitive master plan for the partial development of 35,000 acres of prized watershed in northern New Jersey.

He has also worked internationally, serving as the Professional Advisor for the Design Competition for 10,000 Units of Housing in Tianjin, the People’s Republic of China for Pei Group (Holdings), Ltd., based in New York City.