Gary Wolf Architects, Inc.



			June 2007 The Boston Globe Magazine's recent "Your Modern Home" issue features Gary Wolf Architects' renovation of one of Henry Hoover's modern homes. In the article, Andrew Caffrey discusses the challenges of the design and how Gary Wolf approached them. The photography by Greg Premru illustrates the article. The issue appeared on June 10, 2007.


			November 2006 On November 15, Secretary of State William Galvin, representing the Massachusetts Historical Commission, presented a 2006 Preservation Award for Gary Wolf Architects' rehabilitation of the Fitts Buildings in downtown Framingham. Attendees at the ceremony included members of the Fitts and Hulme families that have owned the buildings since they were originally constructed, preservation tax consultant Dianne Siergiej of Commonweal Collaborative and Gary Wolf, AIA. The buildings are contributing structures in the Concord Square Historic District, a National Register Historic District. NER Construction Manager served as the general contractor for this project.


			March 2006 "Structures", a supplement to the Banker and Tradesman and The Commercial Record, has published Gary Wolf's article "Feeling at Home with Modern Design" in their March 2006 "Residential Design" issue. In this article, Gary discusses some of the principles found in modern architecture in Massachusetts, and explores GWA's designs for an existing modern home in Lincoln, Massachusetts, developed in the 1970's by Henry Hoover, a pioneer of modern architecture in Massachusetts. Gary observes that "a good modern residence has an elemental quality. It may seem paradoxical, given the abstract design, but such a house knows where the sun rises. It recognizes the difference between the shaded north and the bright south, and between the angle of the sun in January and in June. Its layout responds to the direction of summer breezes, its rooms relate to the view." Gary and our client, Henry Hoover's daughter, Lucretia Giese, also presented this project at the 2006 Boston Design Conference held at the Seaport World Trade Center.


			September 2005 The Longy School of Music opened GWA's renovated Rey-Waldstein Building in a formal ribbon-cutting ceremony attended by Cambridge Mayor Michael Sullivan and Massachusetts State Representative Alice Wolf on September 15.


			September 2005 On September 7, 2005, The Town of Framingham sponsored a ribbon-cutting ceremony that recognized the Fitts and Hulme families for their role in Framingham's Downtown Renaisance, as represented by the renovations of the Fitts, Market and Hemenway Buildings. GWA served as architect for this three-building project, which received a Design Citation earlier from the American Institute of Architects/ Central Massachusetts.


			May 2005 Gary Wolf Architects has received a Platinum award in the first Luxury Living Awards program, with the awards being presented at the Boston Society of Architects' Residential Design conference in Boston in April. The awards program recognizes "New England's most beautiful living spaces and the professionals that created them," and focuses on various rooms or elements in houses, both new and renovated. GWA was honored for a master bedroom suite we designed as part of a major addition and renovation for a house in Lexington.



	May 2005 GWA was recognized in the American Institute of Architects/ Central Massachusetts Honor Awards Program in May for its rehabilitation of the Fitts Buildings in downtown Framingham. This project included three historic building facades dating from the 1890's through the 1920's, and included the design of new storefronts and removing a poor quality 1950's curtain wall from the oldest of the three buildings.


			April 2005 GWA's contribution to the Hull Seaside Animal Rescue annual auction was a "Cat Bird Seat," designed to be mounted on a window sill to provide an attractive place for a cat to perch while the structure becomes an attractive piece of cabinet work in one's house. The donated designs were auctioned as part of the "Barkitecture" fundraiser.


			September 2004 Tour of Modern Style Houses in Lincoln and of the Modern Movement in the Greater Boston Area. Our interest and involvement in the advocacy and preservation of buildings of the Modern movement included Gary's organizing and leading two tours of early modern houses in Lincoln, Massachusetts with Dana Robbat of Lincoln's Friends of Modern Architecture. In addition, Jonathan organized a two-day tour of modern architecture in the greater Boston area as part of the DOCOMOMO International Conference 2004 held in New York City.


			July 2004 GWA is featured in the 2004, Seventh Edition of Boston Design magazine. This publication features two recent residential projects by GWA, including a description of the office's services and its approach to design.


			April 2003 When Boston Magazine selected a house for the cover of its April "The Best Places to Live" issue, the editors chose a Concord residence that was restored and renovated by Gary Wolf Architects. Our work on the street façade included removing mid-twentieth century alterations, rebuilding the porch and stairs, and selecting the paint colors. We also undertook a complete interior renovation, added a polychromatic expansion in the back, and designed a new garage and studio building. The whole project appeared in the Boston Globe, American Homestyle and Gardening magazine, and in the book "Working Places".


			January 2002 We are pleased to announce that the Massachusetts Historical Commission has recognized the renovation of the Orange-Wheeler House with a 2002 Preservation Award. Owned by the Lawrence Family Development and Education Fund, this building now houses the Lawrence Youth Commission and YouthBuild Lawrence.


			January 2002 In 2002, efforts to preserve the 1932-1934 Field House in Weston, Massachusetts, received publicity both in Preservation and in the DOCOMOMO Journal. Gary Wolf, AIA has been instrumental in advocating for the preservation of this little-known early modern home.


			January 2002 In 2002, efforts to preserve the 1932-1934 Field House in Weston, Massachusetts, received publicity both in Preservation and in the DOCOMOMO Journal. Gary Wolf, AIA has been instrumental in advocating for the preservation of this little-known early modern home.


			September 2001 Preserving the Modern In September 2001, Gary Wolf, AIA, presented a paper on "Preserving the Modern" at the 2001 Massachusetts Historic Preservation Conference in Amherst, Massachusetts. Gary addressed the preservation of commercial and industrial buildings of the modern movement. Gary is a member of the board of the New England Chapter of Docomomo.


			August 2001 Gibson House Named National Historic Landmark In August 2001, the Department of the Interior recognized the home of one of GWA's clients, the Gibson House Museum, as a National Historic Landmark, a designation applied to only the most important historic sites. GWA began working with the Gibson House in 1997, and has completed a second phase of construction.