The LOEB Fellowship

A graduate of Yale College, Carter Wiseman earned a master’s degree in architectural history at Columbia University. He was the architecture critic for New York Magazine from 1980-1996 and has taught architectural history, criticism, and writing for many years at the Yale School of Architecture. He has written biographies of I. M. Pei  and Louis I. Kahn, as well as a history of twentieth-century American architecture and a handbook on architectural writing. He was a co-founder of the Loeb Fellowship alumni association and, from 1999 to 2010, president of the MacDowell Colony, the nation’s oldest retreat for creative artists. He currently oversees a tutorial program for middle- and high-school students in the humanities.