Jonathan Ochshorn

Jonathan Ochshorn is a registered Architect with an academic background in structural engineering and urban design as well as architecture. Prior to joining the architecture faculty at Cornell University in 1988, he served as Associate Director of the City College Architectural Center, a research center supplying technical assistance to community groups in New York City. His publications include OMA's Milstein Hall: A Case Study of Architectural Failure (2023); Building Bad: How Architectural Utility is Constrained by Politics and Damaged by Expression (2021); Structural Elements for Architects and Builders (2020); as well as studies on tapered insulation, column buckling, building failures, form and forces, and the relationship of design theory to technical practice. His teaching specialties in the Department of Architecture at Cornell University were in the areas of construction technology and structures (effective June 2022, he became Professor Emeritus).