Faculty Profile

A registered architect in Germany, Werner Goehner has been associate director of the Department of Comprehensive Urban Development in Karlsruhe. He has won numerous honors, including a DAAD Fellowship, the Cornell Outstanding Educator Award, and numerous prizes in international professional urban design and museum design competitions, including an invitation to the International Building Exhibition in Berlin. He was recently invited to lecture at conferences in Mumbai, Berlin, and Como.

Goehner teaches a third-year undergraduate design studio, conducts a pro-seminar in thesis design research, and has served as the associate dean and director of graduate studies. While teaching in the post-professional graduate program he conducted urban design studios in and about Berlin, New York, Vienna, Detroit, and Mumbai. He directed special Cornell summer programs in Europe, South America, North Africa, South-East Asia, and China.

He studied at the Universität Karlsruhe, the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, and Cornell.

• Arch 2101 Design III / Arch 2102 Design IV
• Arch 3109 Elective Design
• Arch 3101 Design V / Arch 3102 Design VI
• Arch 5110 Thesis Proseminar
• Arch 3307 Special Investigations in Theory of Architecture

• "On O.M. Ungers," A+U  Nr 428 (May 2006)
• "Unger's Lost Project," Sichtweisen, Betrachtungen zum Werk O.M.Ungers, Cologne (2000)

• First Prize Award: Architectural Design Competition:  Kunsthalle Karlsruhe
• Third Prize Award: Architectural Design Competition: Fine Arts Museum in Bonn
• Honorable Mention: International Urban Design Competition: "Lützowplatz", Berlin
• Design Award for the Montessori Elementary School in  Ithaca
• Faculty Fellowship Award of the Society for the Humanities, Cornell