Mitchell Joachim is a leader
in ecological design, architecture and urbanism. He is a founding
Co-President of Terreform
ONE in 2006. He earned a Ph.D. at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MAUD
Harvard University, M.Arch. Columbia
University. Mitchell is an Associate Professor at NYU and EGS (European Graduate School). He
previously taught at Columbia University, Syracuse
University, Parsons, Washington University, and the Frank Gehry Chair at University of Toronto.
He was formerly an architect at Gehry Partners, and Pei Cobb Freed. He has been
awarded fellowships at TED 2010, Moshe Safdie Assoc., and Martin
Society for Sustainability at MIT. He won the Zumtobel
Group Award for Sustainability and Humanityy, the History Channel
and Infiniti Excellence Award for City of the Future, Time Magazine Best
Invention of 2007, Compacted Car w/ MIT Smart Cities and a Bronze Medal at iGEM
(International Genetically Engineered Machine) for Gen2Seat. His project,
Fab Tree Hab, has been exhibited at MoMA and widely published. He was
chosen by Wired magazine for "The 2008 Smart List: 15 People the Next President
Should Listen To". Rolling Stone magazine honored
Mitchell in "The 100 People Who Are Changing America". In 2009
he was interviewed on the Colbert Report. Popular 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, Austrian Cultural Forum,
and Museum of Arts and Design in 2011. Dwell magazine featured Mitchell
as one of "The NOW 99" in 2012.
"Super Cells: Building with Biology" (TED Books)
gives an "eye-popping tour of the new biological frontier, Nina Tandon and Mitchell Joachim describe the tantalizing array of inventions already being created with nature’s elemental building block: the cell. Imagine personalized bone replacements, living condominium complexes, bacteria-made haute couture, and top sirloin grown without a farm. Tandon and Joachim, daring inventors in their own right, contend that we’re entering a new technological era, one in which we can create smarter technologies by making cells our partners in design. And they confront the thorny questions that come with playing with the power of life."
Mitchell Joachim is a founding member of Global Design NYU, and is one of the innovative designers featured in our forthcoming
BOOK!
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