Pratt Institute

Education

B.A., Princeton Univ; cum laude, Fine Arts and Art History
Ph.D., Columbia University in the City of New York; Dissertation: The Burkean Sublime in British Architecture

Biography

Edward Wendt began teaching at the Pratt Institute in the fall of 2003 after completing his doctorate in architecture history at Columbia University. Also at this time he started his own design practice, which he incorporated in 2007 as Now Design Workshop LLC. In addition to various design projects in New York, he is currently at work on a study of late 18th-Century British architecture—Building the Sublime: Edmund Burke and the Royal Academy—as well as his ongoing photographic projects.

After graduating from Princeton University in 1986 Edward Wendt moved to New York City to study architecture. In 1989 he embarked on a doctorate in art history at Columbia University, specializing in British architecture after 1750 and Modernist architecture. His dissertation, which will be published as Building the Sublime: Edmund Burke and the Royal Academy, explored the effect of BurkeÂ’s theory of the sublime on British public architecture during the Industrial Revolution. Wendt received numerous grants to support his research, including PresidentÂ’s Fellowships from Columbia University and a Whiting Foundation Fellowship in the Humanities. Twice he was awarded grants by the Sir John SoaneÂ’s Museum Foundation for research in London. In 2002, after 15 years working in various design and architecture firms in Manhattan, he started his own practice, incorporated as Now Design Workshop LLC in 2007. Wendt is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor in architecture history at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, where he has taught since 2003. Active also as a photographer, Wendt approaches his design work with the outlook of both a scholar and practicing artist.