Jonathan Ochshorn
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Jonathan Ochshorn
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Architect, Professor Emeritus, Dept. of Architecture, Cornell University

Marxist, singer-songwriter, author of: Building Bad, OMA's Milstein Hall. Structural Elements for Architects and Builders (all open-access and free at https://jonochshorn.com)
I'm performing at the Cortland Coffeehouse Plus, 3 Church St., Cortland, NY, on Saturday, Dec. 13, 2025, 7–9 PM (doors open at 6:30 PM).

Song list includes live "unplugged" versions of Ode to Fluff, OMA's Milstein Hall, and more. Listen to studio versions at jonochshorn.com/music/
November 30, 2025 at 3:45 AM
From OMA's Milstein Hall: "...there is also an implicit conflation of a type of performative athletic movement—whether featuring trained dancers, "free runners," or skateboarders—with the type of movement in and around buildings that constitutes useful circulation."

jonochshorn.com/milsteinhall...
July 6, 2025 at 3:27 PM
File under: don't quit your day job...
July 1, 2025 at 8:21 PM
I talk about wayfinding in OMA's Milstein Hall in my open-access book of the same name. Here's a video update showing the continuing deterioration of floor-mounted signage for the auditorium (see ch. 6 www.jonochshorn.com/milsteinhall... in the book).
June 12, 2025 at 6:33 PM
I played two singer-songwriter sets at the Coffeehouse Plus in Cortland's historic Universalist Unitarian Church last Saturday, May 31, 2025 — the first set with guitar, the second with digital piano. These are unedited iPhone videos of 2 songs (with iPhone audio).

jon.ochshorn.org/2025/06/live...
June 3, 2025 at 9:01 PM
I'll be doing a benefit concert of original songs (first set with guitar, second set with piano) at the Coffeehouse+, Unitarian Universalist Church of Cortland, NY, Sat., May 31, 2025, 7–9 PM.

More details: jonochshorn.com/music/music-...
May 15, 2025 at 7:29 PM
From my photo archives, age 11: Freewheeling Bob Dylan for Christmas in 1963: supplemented by Google search and Photoshop's transform-distort mode.
April 7, 2025 at 2:55 PM
I'm taking off my architect hat and putting on my singer-songwriter hat for a benefit concert this Saturday in Cortland, NY. All piano this time — no guitar. Details at jonochshorn.com/music/perfor...
February 17, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Richard Meier's Weill Hall bathroom at Cornell "reveals" an attention to detail and modularity that is almost pathological: follow the continuous reveal above wall tile, and note the way that toilet partitions line up precisely at tile joints. And this is just the bathroom...
January 28, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Stumbled upon something on Cornell's Arts Quad that might count as an art installation, or was it just an accident — a window left open with a projector running?
November 19, 2024 at 7:53 PM