Faculty Profile

Ralph Crump was born in 1919 at Frank Lloyd Wright's house in Taliesin East. Crump graduated from the College of Architecture at Cornell in 1949 with a bachelor of architecture degree. He became a registered architect in 1952 and started an architectural practice in Winston Salem, North Carolina,  in 1953. He served on the board of directors of the N.C. Chapter of the A.I.A. He left his firm in 1968 and became a professor of architecture at the Cornell in 1969. He retired to Easton, Maryland in 1983 and continues to work in historic restoration.

• Building Technology - Materials and Methods
• Environmental Systems - Site Planning
• Environmental Systems - Thermal Systems
• Environmental Systems - Lighting and Acoustics
• Professional Practice

• The Design Connection: Energy & Technology in Architecture.
• "Wind & Building Design," A.I.A. Journal (1992)

• Historical Preservation Award, Talbo Cty, MD (1995)
• Grant for Wind Tunnel Construction (1978)
• Grant for Orthromic House (1976)
• Charles Goodwin Sands Memorial Award (1949)