Faculty Profile

Mark Cruvellier teaches and conducts research in the field of architectural science and technology in the Department of Architecture. His areas of interest and expertise include overall structural system design, tall buildings, bridge design, visualization of structural behavior, and the development of innovative pedagogical materials.

 

Cruvellier earned his doctorate at McGill University specializing in the structural engineering of tall buildings. He worked for several years in New York City analyzing and designing some of that city’s tallest and most slender buildings including Carnegie Hall Tower, Metropolitan Tower, and CitySpire. 

 

Cruvellier has also worked on several important and unusual bridge design projects, including a cable stayed highway bridge over the Mississippi River and a series of small suspension bridges in the wilderness regions of British Columbia, Canada. 

 

In 1991 Cruvellier joined the faculty of the Department of Architecture at Cornell. He regularly teaches classes on structural concepts and structural systems as well as bridge design and vertigo structures. In 2006 Cruvellier was a visiting associate professor at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University teaching the course Analysis and Design of Building Structures I. 

 

Representative publication and lecture titles include Footbridges of the World’s Fairs (Paris 2002), My NYC and Other Tall Tales (Oslo School of Architecture, 2005), Framing Sliver Buildings (1995), and Envisioning Structural System Behavior: From da Vinci to the Finite Element Montage (1997). 

 

Cruvellier was a lead consultant for the 2001 PBS/David Macauley Building Big television series, book, website, and educational outreach project. He has led and administered Cornell’s architecture department as its interim chair from 1998–2001 and again from 2006 to 2009.

 

• Curriculum Vitae (PDF)

• Arch 363 Structural Systems: Student's work from the past