Background
Blake, Peter Jost was born on September 20, 1920 in Berlin. Came to the United States, 1940, naturalized, 1944.
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Blake, Peter Jost was born on September 20, 1920 in Berlin. Came to the United States, 1940, naturalized, 1944.
Student, University London, 1938. Student in architecture, Regent St. Polytechnic, London, 1939. Student in architecture, University Pennsylvania, 1941.
Bachelor of Architecture, Pratt Institute, 1949.
Apprentice to, Serge Chermayeff, Architect, London, 1938-1939;
Apprentice to, George Howe, Oskar Stonorov and Louis Kahn, Architects, Philadelphia, 1940-1942;
curator department architecture and industrial design, Museum Modern Art, New York City, 1948-1950;
associate editor, Architectural Forum, New York City, 1950-1961;
managing editor, Architectural Forum, New York City, 1961-1964;
editor-in-chief, Architectural Forum, New York City, 1965-1972;
partner, Peter Blake & Julian Neski, Architects, New York City, 1956-1960;
partner, James Baker & Peter Blake, Architects, New York City, 1964-1971;
contributing editor, New York magazine, New York City, 1968-1976;
editor-in-chief, Architecture Plus, New York City, 1972-1975;
chairman, School Architecture, Boston Architectural Center, 1975-1979;
department chairman architecture and planning, Catholic U. American, Washington, 1979-1986;
professor architecture, Catholic U. American, Washington, 1986-1991;
principal, Peter Blake Architect, Washington, 1979-1993;
professor emeritus, Catholic U. American, Washington, since 1991. Visiting critic, lecturer Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Yale University, New Haven, Cornell Univercity, Ithaca, New York, Washington University, St. Louis, Tulane University, New Orleans, Pratt Institute, Cooper Union, New School for Social Research, Bennington College, Columbia University, New York City, Illinois Institute Technology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, also schools of architecture in Hamburg, Aachen, Hanover, Braunschweig, and West Berlin, Federal Republic of Germany, Vienna, Zurich, Halifax, Nova Scoti, Canada, Maracaibo, Venezuela, Milan, and Hong Kong. Chairman AlcoaConf. on Future of Housing, Boca Raton, Florida, 1957.
Chairman International Design Conference, Aspen, Colorado, 1962, board directors, 1965-1973, advisor to board,1974-1991. Chairman advisory panel on quality of Iranian housing, urban development and new town planning Shah of Iran, 1976. Member United States delegate International Conference on Theater Design, Berlin, 1960.
Participant International Conference onUrban Design, New Delhi, 1965, United States/Yugoslav Conference on Housing, Zagreb, 1974, Iran International Congress on Architecture, Persepolis, 1974, United States delegate Helsinki Cultural Forum, Budapest, Hungary, 1985. Speaker at seminar in Chandigarh, India, 1994.
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Served with Army of the United States, 1943-1947, European Theatre of Operations. Fellow American Institute of Architects (Architecture Critics medal 1975).