Peter Morgan Pennoyer

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(born on February 19, 1957) is an

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and the principal of Peter Pennoyer Architects, an architecture firm based in

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. Pennoyer, his four partners and his fifty associates have an international practice in

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and

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, or

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. Many of the firm's institutional and commercial projects involve historic buildings, and the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art has stated that the firm's strength is in "deftly fusing history and creative invention into timeless contemporary designs." The firm's projects have been featured in publications such as ''

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'', and '' House & Garden''. In October 2010, the Vendome Press published ''Peter Pennoyer Architects: Apartments, Townhouses, Country Houses'', which featured twenty of the firm's projects, and in 2016, Vendome published ''A House in the Country'', which chronicled the process used by Pennoyer and his wife, interior designer Katie Ridder, to design their own house and garden in

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Early life and education

Peter Pennoyer was born on February 19, 1957 in

, the son of Victoria (

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Parsons) Pennoyer (1928-2013), and Robert Morgan Pennoyer (born 1925). His father was a partner at Patterson Belknap, a former Assistant U.S. Attorney for the

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, and a former Assistant to the

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. Pennoyer graduated from St. Bernard's School in New York City and St. Paul's School in

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, received a Bachelor of Architecture degree from Columbia College in 1981, and a Masters of Architecture degree from Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation in 1984. His siblings include Russell Pennoyer, Christina Lee Pennoyer (the wife of R. Scott Greathead), and Dr. Tracy Pennoyer (the wife of John Auchincloss, a son of author

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). Pennoyer is the grandson of Frances (née Morgan) Pennoyer, and the lawyer Paul Geddes Pennoyer; a great-grandson of J.P. Morgan Jr.; and a great-great grandson of J.P. Morgan. Pennoyer's maternal grandfather, James R. Parsons, was a partner in Chubb & Son, and his great-grandfather

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was a founding partner of Chubb & Son.

Career

While in graduate school from 1981 to 1983, Pennoyer worked as a designer in the

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office of his Columbia professor,

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. He established his own practice in 1984, where he was a principal in the firm Pennoyer Turino Architects P. C. until 1990, after which he formed Peter Pennoyer Architects. One of his earliest projects was a retreat in the

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for his sister's father-in-law,

. Pennoyer is a trustee of

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, and president of the Whiting Foundation, which sponsors the

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, a literary awards program. He is Chairman of the Fellowship Committee for the Sir John Soane's Museum Foundation, a National Peer Reviewer of the U.S. General Services Administration, Washington D.C., and a lifetime member of the

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. He was chairman of the board of The Institute of Classical Architecture & Art from 2009 to 2013. Since 2011, Pennoyer has been an adjunct professor in the Department of Art History: Department of Urban Design and Architecture Studies at

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Published works

Pennoyer and historian Anne Walker co-authored five monographs of American architectural history: ''The Architecture of

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''; ''The Architecture of

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''; ''The Architecture of

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''; ''New York Transformed: The Architecture of

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''; and ''

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and the American Country House''. He and Walker also wrote the introduction to a reprint of Frank M. Snyder’s ''Building Details''.

Recognition

The Institute for Classical Architecture & Art (ICAA) gave Pennoyer's firm its Stanford White Award for the design of a house in

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(2012), its Stanford White Award, for the design of a new apartment building on Manhattan's Upper East Side and for a new house in Maine (2016), its Bulfinch Award (to Preserve and Advance the Classical Tradition in New England) for its design of a new classical house in Massachusetts (2017). In 2017, the College of Charleston awarded Pennoyer its

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Medal of Excellence. In 2017, the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art gave the firm the Arthur Ross Award for architecture. Peter Pennoyer Architects has been included regularly in

's AD100 List, a listing of outstanding talent in architecture and interior design. The firm is included in ''New York Spaces'' Top 50 Designers List, and in ''Ocean Home'' magazine's Top 50 Coastal Architects list. Pennoyer was elected to the College of Fellows of the

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in 2014, and to the General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen in 2016.

Representative projects

Peter Pennoyer Architects’ projects include the following: * Wolong Bay Development, Dalian, China * 151 East 78th Street, New York City * Classical Villas, The Peak, Hong Kong * Counter Proposal for the New York Public Library * The Metropolitan Opera Club, New York City *

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, New York City * The New York Stock Exchange Luncheon Club, New York City *

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* David Webb, New York City Flagship Store * The Mark Hotel, New York City * Hodsoll Mckenzie,

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, New York City *

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, The Monahan Gymnasium, Connecticut * Oakley Farm, Virginia * Diamond A Ranch, New Mexico * Moynihan Train Hall Clock

Personal life

In 1988, Pennoyer married Katherine Lee "Katie" Ridder, the daughter of Constance Ridder, a lawyer, and Paul Anthony Ridder, a director of

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, and the granddaughter of Bernard Ridder, the former chairman of Knight Ridder. They have three children: Jane, Anthony, and Virginia, and reside in

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, New York in a house designed in the 1920s by the architect Charles Lewis Bowman, a former

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draftsman.

References

External links

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