Fall 2021 seminar: B.Arch. candidate, architecture
Jonathan Plass is a fifth-year B.Arch. student minoring in the Department of Comparative Literature while competing in the 800m for Cornell's Varsity track and field team. Since 2013, Plass has been working playfully in architecture, design, photography, and English. Plass is an architect, artist, designer, and student who aspires to combine these disciplines to create truly holistic and ecological solutions to the many problems we face today. Plass has worked at architecture firms of all sizes including Bohlin Cywinski Jackson, Atkin Olshin Schade, Skidmore, Owings & Merril as well as for the Cornell Journal of Architecture and as a freelance graphic designer. All of Plass's work critically engages context holistically and ecologically, attempting to find the future best fit for the whole. On the track, Plass won an Ivy League title in the 4x800m and has scored at various Ivy League championships.