John Ochsendorf IASS 2024 Keynote Presentation

John Ochsendorf held a keynote presentation during IASS 2024 at ETH Zurich, moderated by Catherine De Wolf. John Ochsendorf is an American structural engineer. He was educated at Cornell, Princeton and Cambridge University and is known for his creative research at the interface between civil engineering and architecture. Since 2002, he has been Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). His research interests include the safety of masonry vaults and domes, form-finding of efficient shell structures, and the design of more sustainable buildings and infrastructure. John has uniquely combined his interests in engineering, archeology and architectural history to become a leading authority on ancient building structures as well as sustainable design. He is a founding partner of Ochsendorf DeJong and Block LLC, a consulting firm specialising in historic structures. He is Founding Director of the newly established MIT Morningside Academy for Design and was Director of the American Academy in Rome from 2017 to 2020. Ochsendorf is the author of more than 100 technical papers and a book on the structural tile shells of the Guastavino family (Princeton Architectural Press, 2010). IASS 2024: https://iass2024.org/web/ IASS: https://iass-structures.org NCCR DFAB: https://www.dfab.ch