Peter W. Charapko's work includes over two hundred projects, reports and studies in the institutional, residential, commercial and governmental fields.
RHINEBECK, NY, June 10, 2019 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Marquis Who's Who, the world's premier publisher of biographical profiles, is proud to present Peter W. Charapko with the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award. An accomplished listee, Mr. Charapko celebrates more than 45 years of practical experience, serving since 1979 as principal of Peter W. Charapko Architect. He started as intern and teaching assistant for Michael Graves at Princeton, and also a "preceptor" there with Dean Robert L. Geddes, and for ten years as architecture lecturer at New York University.
He attributes his architectural proclivities in important part to having been raised in Fairless Hills, Falls Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania where his parents Peter and Margaret Warhol Charapko moved when the planned community was first built in 1951. The namesake Pennsbury Schools, after William Penn's manor home near the Delaware River, were organized just three years earlier.
At Pennsbury High School he was president of the honor society, salutatorian, played trumpet, mellophone, participated in vocal music, and jointly produced a commercial radio program on Pennsbury. He attained Eagle Scout rank. At Princeton he served as Chief Announcer on WPRB·FM. His initial economics and urban planning studies led to the A.B. degree in Sociology. Directly thereafter he earned the Masters in Architecture from the University.
He features in the 21st, 22nd and 25th editions of Who's Who in the East. Princeton awarded him the Gordon McCormick Award, and at his first full position after graduation, Mitchell Giurgola Architects, he was at the firm when it was awarded the American Institute of Architects Firm of the Year during the United States Bicentennial. He is indexed in the AlA Guide to New York. He was employed at I.M. Pei and Partners and Poor, Swanke, Hayden and Connell prior to opening his own practice, for 32 years on Madison Avenue across from the Morgan Library. Also, prior to licensure, he was employed by Peter Gluck, Tod Williams (now Tod Williams Billie Tsien) and Ezra Ehrenkrantz. Later, he designed for Ivonne L. Ibarra. At his office architectural tasks were organized according to the atelier method.
Mr. Charapko's work includes over two hundred projects, reports and studies in the Institutional, Residential, Commercial and Governmental fields, and he is licensed in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts. Notable works include major renovations to Manhattan's West End and Fort Washington Collegiate churches, two Christian Science churches, and landscaping for a Long Island reconstructionist synagogue. For over a decade he was the primary architect for the Third Street Music School, the oldest such settlement in the country. A new Off·Broadway theatre, "Playhouse 91," was built. Additions to the Hotel Dover, in midtown New York, encapsulate a complex penthouse/greenhouse programme. Dutchess County estate projects and an eighteenth century house addition and renovation on Cape Cod also highlight Peter W. Charapko's newer and classicist works.
With his architectural practice he continues as an oil painter, and shows throughout the Hudson Valley region. He also teaches painting and drawing with an emphasis on the relationship of art and architecture.
In recognition of outstanding contributions to his profession and the Marquis Who's Who community, Peter W. Charapko has been featured on the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement website. Please visit www.ltachievers.com for more information about this honor.
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