Robert K. Otani, PE LEED AP is a Principal at Thornton-Tomasetti, Inc. and founded
the CORE studio, which is an applications development, advanced computational
modeling, and R&D group at the firm.
He has extensive structural design experience
involving commercial, infrastructure, institutional, cultural and residential structures. He
has worked on a wide variety of complex projects, including high-rise buildings, longspan
roof structures, sports arenas, airport terminals, major building structural
renovations and retrofits, structural art projects. His professional and academic
interests focus on informed architecture relating to optimized structural typologies, high
performance structures, and sustainability. He has served as President of the
Structural Engineers Association of New York and has been a professor at Pratt
Institute School of Architecture since 2008 and Columbia GSAPP since 2009.
His
notable constructed projects are the Columbia University Northwest Science Building,
Cornell University Gates Hall, The Park Imperial at 230 West 56th Street, VIA West
57th Street, Cornell Tech “The Bridge”, and the 9/11 Westchester Memorial.