Faculty Profile

Jerry Wells served as chair of Cornell's architecture department for two terms from 1980 to 1989. He is a registered architect in New York, #8993, and with the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards, #5955. He has served on the Fulbright Committee, the National Screening Committee for Architecture, and was a member of the board of directors for the National Architectural Accrediting Board. He has served on the editorial board of the Journal of Architectural Education, and was a member of the Architects in Education committee of the AIA.  

Wells recently ran the Solar Decathlon studios at Cornell and was involved in teaching two interdisciplinary seminars for the project. He has a keen interest in industrialized building and solar energy.

Wells studied at the University of Texas receiving his B.Arch. in 1959 and at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology-ETH, Zurich Switzerland from 1960–62.

• ARCH 3304 / 6304 Column, Wall, Elevation, Facade: A Study of the Vertical Surface in Architecture
• ARCH 3101 / 3102 Third Year Design Studio

• “Shenandoah House,” Progressive Architecture, Archi Cree, Design Interiors, also exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art (April 1992)
• “Broadway East Housing, Kingston, NY; 130 units,” Progressive Architecture (1974)
• “Brighton Beach Housing, Brooklyn, NY; 360 units,” published in various periodicals including New Directions in American Architecture, Learning from Las Vegas (1970)