Mitchell Joachim

Mitchell Joachim

Joachim in 2008
Born (1972-02-03) February 3, 1972
New Jersey, United States
Residence New York City
Nationality American
Fields Urban design, Architecture
Institutions Terreform ONE + NYU
Alma mater MIT, Harvard Graduate School of Design, Columbia University
Doctoral advisor William J. Mitchell
Known for Fab Tree Hab,
Sustainable design,
MIT Car

Mitchell Joachim (pronounced /jo-ak-um/; born February 3, 1972) is acknowledged as an innovator in ecological design, architecture, and urban design. He is also a researcher, and architectural educator. Mitchell Joachim's specific professional interest has been adapting principles of physical and social ecology to architecture, city design, transport, and environmental planning.

He is the founding Co-President at Terreform ONE, an Associate Professor at NYU,[1] and the European Graduate School.[2] Previously he was the Frank Gehry Chair at University of Toronto.[3] Earlier, he was faculty at Pratt, Columbia, Syracuse, Washington, and Parsons. Formerly he worked as an architect for Gehry Partners,[4] and Pei Cobb Freed.[5]

Recognition

Mitchell has been awarded a Fulbright Scholarship, ARCHITECT R+D Award, [6] Senior Fellowship at TED 2011,[7] Moshe Safdie and Assoc. Fellowship, and Martin Society for Sustainability Fellowship at MIT. He won the Zumtobel Group Award,[8] History Channel and Infiniti Design Excellence Award for the City of the Future, and Time Magazine Best Invention of the Year 2007, MIT Car w/ MIT Smart Cities.[9] His project, Fab Tree Hab, has been exhibited at MoMA and widely published. He was selected by Wired magazine for "The 2008 Smart List: 15 People the Next President Should Listen To".[10] Rolling Stone magazine honored Mitchell as an agent of change in "The 100 People Who Are Changing America". In 2009 he was interviewed on the Colbert Report[11] Popular Science magazine has featured his work as a visionary for “The Future of the Environment” in 2010.[12] Mitchell was the Winner of the Victor Papanek Social Design Award[13] sponsored by the University of Applied Arts Vienna, the Austrian Cultural Forum New York, and the Museum of Arts and Design in 2011. Dwell magazine featured Mitchell as one of "The NOW 99" in 2012.[14] He won the American Institute of Architects New York, Urban Design Merit Award for; Terreform ONE, Urbaneer Resilient Waterfront Infrastructure, 2013.[15]

Education

He earned a Ph.D.[16] at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in the Dept. of Architecture, Design and Computation program , a Master of Architecture in Urban Design (MAUD) at Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD), a M.Arch at Columbia University GSAPP, and a BPS at the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York with Honors.

Early life

Mitchell was born into a modest American family. His father, Henry Joachim (1928–2011) was a wood furniture manufacturer and a painter from Queens NY. His mother was born in Brooklyn, NY. They encouraged Mitchell since the age of five to pursue fine arts. His early education was in the public school system of New York State.

Design projects

Selected publications

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