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Jerry Wells

  • Professor

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 to 1962.

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modern three-story home with extensive balconies supported by four pilings

Publications

  • Shenandoah House

    Progressive Architecture, Archi Cree, Design Interiors, also exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, April 1992.

  • Broadway East Housing, Kingston, New York; 130 Units

    Progressive Architecture, 1974.

  • Brighton Beach Housing, Brooklyn, New York; 360 Units

    Published in various periodicals including New Directions in American Architecture, Learning from Las Vegas, 1970.

Classes

  • Column, Wall, Elevation, Facade: A Study of the Vertical Surface in Architecture

    ARCH 3304/6304

  • Third Year Design Studio

    ARCH 3101/3102

Selected Awards, Grants, and Fellowships

  • Prize Winner — Newport News Cultural Center and Theater

    1989

  • 40 Under 40

    Architecture and Urbanis
    1974–78

  • Progressive Architecture Design Awards Citation

    1971

  • Industrial Design, Award for Excellence of Design for Manufactured Housing System

    1970

  • First Prize — Housing at Brighton Beach, Brooklyn

    1968

Selected Exhibitions and Presentations

  • Solar Decathlon

    Sixth place, Washington, DC, 2009.

  • Solar Decathlon

    Sixth place, Washington, DC, 2007.