Mitchell Joachim
| Mitchell Joachim | |
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Joachim in 2008
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| Born |
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, and the European Graduate School. Previously he was the Frank Gehry Chair at University of Toronto. Earlier, he was faculty at Pratt, Columbia, Syracuse, Washington, and Parsons. Formerly he worked as an architect for Gehry Partners, and Pei Cobb Freed.
Mitchell has been awarded a Fulbright Scholarship, ARCHITECT R+D Award, Senior Fellowship at TED 2011,Moshe Safdie and Assoc. Fellowship, and Martin Society for Sustainability Fellowship at MIT. He won the Zumtobel Group Award, 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. 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". 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 ReportPopular Science magazine has featured his work as a visionary for “The Future of the Environment” in 2010. Mitchell was the Winner of the Victor Papanek Social Design Award 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. He won the American Institute of Architects New York, Urban Design Merit Award for; Terreform ONE, Urbaneer Resilient Waterfront Infrastructure, 2013.
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