John Ochsendorf is the Class of 1942 Professor of Architecture and Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He served as Director of the American Academy in Rome from 2017-2020 and is currently the founding director of the MIT Morningside Academy for Design since 2022. He has collaborated with architects, engineers and artists on the design of award-winning structures around the world, including the Mapungubwe Interpretation Centre which was named World Building of the Year at the World Architecture Festival in 2009. His research has been supported by a Fulbright Scholarship to Spain, a Rome Prize, a MacArthur Fellowship, as well as grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Mellon Foundation, and the National Science Foundation. He is the author of Guastavino Vaulting: The Art of Structural Tile (PAP, 2010) and over 100 technical papers on sustainable design, masonry mechanics, and architectural structures.
