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Title

Professor; Director of Graduate Studies

Department

Architecture

Address

252 E. Sibley Hall

Phone

(607) 255-1194

Email

jo24@cornell.edu

Website

Jonathan Ochshorn

Jonathan Ochshorn is a registered architect whose teaching specialties are in the areas of construction technology and structures. Prior to joining the faculty at Cornell in 1988, he taught at City College of New York while serving as associate director of the City College Architectural Center, a research center supplying technical assistance to community groups in New York City. Since 1976, he also has practiced architecture and urban design in New York and California. Ochshorn’s academic background is in structural engineering (M.I.T.) and urban design (M.U.P., City College of New York), as well as architecture (B. Arch., Cornell).

Courses (selected)

  • ARCH 2614 / 5614 Building Technology I: Materials and Methods
  • ARCH 2615 / 5615 Building Technology II: Structural Elements
  • ARCH 4621 / 5621 Sustainable Architecture: The Science and Politics of Green Building

Publications (selected)

  • Structural Elements for Architects and Builders (2010)
  • "Approximate Derivation of Critical Buckling Load," Journal of Architectural Engineering, ASCE Journal of Architectural  Engineering (December 2009)
  • "Designing Building Failures," Building Technology Educators' Symposium, University of Maryland (2006)

Awards, Grants, and Fellowships (selected)

  • Design Abstraction and Building Construction, session topic for Annual Meeting of the ACSA (2009)
  • Fulbright Senior Specialist Award, Chiang Mai University, Thailand (2001)

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