Jeffrey Karl Ochsner
Jeffrey Karl Ochsner (born 1950) is an architect, architectural historian, and professor at the University of Washington in Seattle. He is known for his research and writing on American architects Henry Hobson Richardson and Lionel H. Pries, and on Seattle architecture; he has also published articles that link architecture and psychoanalysis.
Jeffrey Karl Ochsner
- Born
- 1950
- Nationality
- United States
- Occupation
- historian · biographer · university teacher · architecture professor · architect
- Fields
- architecture · landscape architecture · urban planning
- Education
- Rice University
- Honours
- Fellow of the American Institute of Architects
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Jeffrey Karl Ochsner (born 1950) is an architect, architectural historian, and professor at the University of Washington in Seattle. He is known for his research and writing on American architects Henry Hobson Richardson and Lionel H. Pries, and on Seattle architecture; he has also published articles that link architecture and psychoanalysis.
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Jeffrey Karl Ochsner (born 1950) is an American architect, architecture professor and biographer, among other activities.
The architect studied at Rice University. Jeffrey Karl Ochsner worked for University of Washington and worked in Seattle. The architect is active in architecture, landscape architecture and urban planning. Jeffrey Karl Ochsner received Fellow of the American Institute of Architects.
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Career
Jeffrey Karl Ochsner studied at Rice University. Holly Anne Taylor, Jonathan R. Konkol and Victoria Kovacs are recorded as having studied under Jeffrey Karl Ochsner. The field of work recorded is architecture, landscape architecture and urban planning. Places of work recorded in the authority are Seattle. Employment is recorded with University of Washington. Distinctions recorded are Fellow of the American Institute of Architects.
Ochsner graduated from Rice University with a B.A. in Architecture in 1973 and a Master of Architecture (M.Arch.) in 1976. He worked for Gunnar Birkerts and Associates in Michigan in 1973-74. He was owner/principal of a Houston-based architectural practice, Ochsner Associates, from 1984 to 1987. The firm was responsible for the architecture of the Galveston Island Trolley. Ochsner has taught at the University of Washington since 1988. He was Chair of the Department of Architecture from 1996 to 2002. He served as Associate Dean in the College of Built Environments (CBE) from 2007 to 2019, and as CBE Advisor on Policy & Procedure from 2019 to 2020. Ochsner's first book,H. H. Richardson: Complete Architectural Works, went through six printings; roughly 30,000 copies are in print. He wrote Shaping Seattle Architecture: A Historical Guide to the Architects. The first edition of Shaping Seattle Architecture went through two printings, with 10,000 copies in print. Ochsner's co-authored book, Distant Corner: Seattle Architects and the Legacy of H. H. Richardson, was selected as one of "100 Top Books by 100 UW Authors" by Columns: University of Washington Alumni Magazine in December 2006. His book, Lionel H. Pries, Architect, Artist, Educator: From Arts and Crafts to Modern Architecture, was a Finalist for the Washington State Book Award in History/Biography in 2008. Publication of Distant Corner and Lionel H. Pries was supported by grants from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. The Second Edition of Shaping Seattle Architecture: A Historical Guide to the Architects received the Heritage Publication Award from Historic Seattle in May 2015. Ochsner's articles have appeared in Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, JAE: Journal of Architectural Education, Buildings & Landscapes, Pacific Northwest Quarterly, American Imago, and other journals. Ochsner was recognized as a Fellow in the American Institute of Architects in 1996. The Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture selected Ochsner as one of five recipients of the 2012 ACSA Distinguished Professor Award. Ochsner is included in the 2007 book The Things They've Done by William T. Cannady. Ochsner is married to Sandra Lynn Perkins, a trusts and estates attorney. Ochsner was diagnosed with a choroidal melanoma in 1997; radiation treatment was successful. In June 2023, Ochsner received the 2023 Outstanding Faculty Award of the UW College of Built Environments.
Selected essays
Selected essays
• Ochsner, Jeffrey Karl, "The Experience of Prospect and Refuge: Frank Lloyd Wright's Houses as Holding Environments," American Imago 75 (Summer 2018), pp. 179–211. • Ochsner, Jeffrey Karl, "Meditations on the Empty Chair: The Form of Mourning and Reverie," American Imago 73 (Summer 2016), pp. 131–163. • Ochsner, Jeffrey Karl, "The Staten Island September 11 Memorial: Creativity, Mourning and the Experience of Loss," in Grief and Its Transcendence: Memory, Identity, Creativity, eds. Adele Tutter and Léon Wurmser, Routledge, London, 2015, pp. 30–47. • Ochsner, Jeffrey Karl, "Behind the Mask: A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Design Studio," JAE: Journal of Architectural Education 53 (May 2000), pp. 194–206. • Ochsner, Jeffrey Karl, "A Space of Loss: The Vietnam Veterans Memorial," JAE: Journal of Architectural Education 50 (February 1997), pp. 156–171. • Ochsner, Jeffrey Karl, "Understanding the Holocaust through the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum" JAE: Journal of Architectural Education 48 (May 1995), pp. 240–249.
Videos
Videos
• "Town Square: Seattle's Greatest Architects," interview with Feliks Banel at Town Hall, Seattle, September 29, 2014 • "Back to the Future: Architecture at UW -- The First Fifty Years, 1914-1964," Jeffrey Karl Ochsner, Department of Architecture 100th Anniversary Lecture Series, May 6, 2015
Identity and overview
Identity and overview
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Books
• Ochsner, Jeffrey Karl, editor/co-author, Shaping Seattle Architecture: A Historical Guide to the Architects Second Edition, University of Washington Press, Seattle and London 2014,. First Edition: AIA Seattle and University of Washington Press, Seattle and London 1994, • Ochsner, Jeffrey Karl, Furniture Studio: Materials, Craft, and Architecture University of Washington Press, Seattle and London, 2012. • Ochsner, Jeffrey Karl, Lionel H. Pries, Architect, Artist, Educator: From Arts and Crafts to Modern Architecture University of Washington Press, Seattle and London, 2007. • Ochsner, Jeffrey Karl, and Andersen, Dennis Alan, Distant Corner: Seattle Architects and the Legacy of H. H. Richardson, University of Washington Press, Seattle and London 2003, • Ochsner, Jeffrey Karl, H. H. Richardson: Complete Architectural Works, MIT Press, Cambridge MA and London, 1982,
Reception and standing
The scholarly and documentary record stands as follows. Recorded as having received Fellow of the American Institute of Architects.
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scholarly publication
- <i>H. H. Richardson: Complete Architectural Works</i>. Jeffrey Karl Ochsner, H. H. Richardson, Winterthur Portfolio, 1983
Scholarly · Crossref registry · 1983
- <i>H. H. RICHARDSON: COMPLETE ARCHITECTURAL WORKS</i>. Jeffrey Karl Ochsner, Art Documentation: Journal of the Art Libraries Society of North America, 1982
Scholarly · Crossref registry · 1982
- Review: <i>Lionel H. Pries, Architect, Artist, Educator: From Arts and Crafts to Modern Architecture</i>, by Jeffrey Karl Ochsner, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 2009
Scholarly · Crossref registry · 2009
- Review: <i>Shaping Seattle Architecture: A Historical Guide to the Architects</i>, by Jeffrey Karl Ochsner, The Public Historian, 1995
Scholarly · Crossref registry · 1995
Institutional database
- Wikidata, structured authority record Q6176096: Jeffrey Karl Ochsner
Scholarly · Wikimedia Foundation
reference work
- “Jeffrey Karl Ochsner”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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- 3.Jeffrey Karl Ochsner - Google Scholar Citations. scholar.google.com.
- 4.Jeffrey Ochsner -. arch.be.washington.edu.
- 5.Baker, Paul R. H. H. Richardson: Complete Architectural Works. Jeffrey Karl Ochsner, H. H. Richardson. Winterthur Portfolio. 18. 2/3. 222–224. July 1983. 0084-0416.
- 6.Toker, Franklin K. Book Review: H. H. Richardson: Complete Architectural Works. by Jeffrey Karl Ochsner. Western Pennsylvania History: 1918 - 2023. 373–375. 1983-10-01. 1525-4755.
- 7.Curran, Kathleen. Review of Ochsner, Jeffrey Karl; Anderson, Dennis Alan, Distant Corner: Seattle Architects and the Legacy of H. H. Richardson. H-Urban, H-Review. February 2005.
- 8.Harvey, David. Review: Shaping Seattle Architecture: A Historical Guide to the Architects, by Jeffrey Karl Ochsner. The Public Historian. 17. 4. 110–112. 1995-10-01. 0272-3433.
- 9.Eaton, Leonard K. Review of Shaping Seattle Architecture: A Historical Guide to the Architects; Carl F. Gould: A Life in Architecture and the Arts. Oregon Historical Quarterly. 97. 1. 115–118. 1996. 0030-4727.
- 10.2015 Awards. Historic Seattle.
- 11.ACSA Awards Distinguished Professor Archive.
- 12.Cannady, William T. The Things They've Done: A book about the careers of selected graduates of the Rice University School of Architecture. Rice University School of Architecture. 97–98. 2007.
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scholarly publication
<i>H. H. Richardson: Complete Architectural Works</i>. Jeffrey Karl Ochsner, H. H. Richardson, Winterthur Portfolio, 1983Crossref registry
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Review: <i>Shaping Seattle Architecture: A Historical Guide to the Architects</i>, by Jeffrey Karl Ochsner, The Public Historian, 1995Crossref registry
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Wikidata, structured authority record Q6176096: Jeffrey Karl OchsnerWikimedia Foundation
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