Guy Jérôme Pierre Nordenson

Structural and civil engineer, and professor of architecture and structural engineering at Princeton University. Studied at MIT and the University of California at Berkeley and began his career as a draftsman in the joint studio of R Buckminster Fuller and Isamu Noguchi in Long Island City in 1976. He has practiced structural engineering in San Francisco and New York. In 1987 he established the New York office of Ove Arup & Partners and was its director until 1997, when he began his current practice (see nordenson.com).

In 1994 he co-founded the Structural Engineers Association of New York. He was Secretary and Commissioner and Secretary of the NYC Public Design Commission and a member of the NYC Panel on Climate Change. His AIA sponsored research project “On the Water | Palisade Bay” was published in 2010 by Hatje Cantz and served as the inspiration for the MoMA workshop and exhibition "Rising Currents" in 2010.

MoMA has published Tall Buildings (2004), Seven Structural Engineers, the Felix Candela Lectures in Structural Engineering (2008) and Structured Lineages: Learning from Japanese Structural Design (2019). Other books include: Patterns and Structure (2010) and Reading Structures: 39 Projects and Built Works (2016) with Lars Muller Publishers; Four Corridors: Design Initiative for RPA's Fourth Regional Plan (Hatje Cantz 2019); and Structures of Coastal Resilience (Island 2018).