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Werner Goehner

  • Professor Emeritus

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Academic Research Areas

  • Architectural design
  • Urbanism

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, Como, and Istanbul.

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 City, Vienna, Detroit, Mumbai, and Istanbul. He directed special Cornell summer programs in Europe, South America, North Africa, Southeast Asia, and China.

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

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Academic Research Areas

  • Architectural design
  • Urbanism

Publications

  • On O. M. Ungers

    A+U Nr 428, May 2006

  • Unger's Lost Project

    Sichtweisen, Betrachtungen zum Werk O. M. Ungers, Cologne, 2000

Classes

  • Design III

    ARCH 2101

  • Design IV

    ARCH 2102

  • Elective Design

    ARCH 3109

  • Design V

    ARCH 3101

  • Design VI

    ARCH 3102

  • Thesis Proseminar

    ARCH 5110

  • Special Investigations in Theory of Architecture

    ARCH 3307

Selected Awards, Grants, and Fellowships

  • Architectural Design Competition

    First Prize Award, Kunsthalle Karlsruhe

  • Architectural Design Competition

    Third Prize Award, Fine Arts Museum in Bonn

  • International Urban Design Competition

    Honorable Mention, “Lützowplatz” in Berlin

  • Design Award

    For the Montessori Elementary School in Ithaca

  • Faculty Fellowship Award of the Society for the Humanities

    Cornell University