Mitchell Joachim (pronounced /jo-ak-um/; born February 3, 1972) is an architect and urban designer. He is the Co-Founder of Terreform ONE, and an Associate Professor of Practice at NYU. Previously he was the Frank Gehry Chair at

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and a faculty member at Pratt, Columbia, Syracuse, Washington, The New School, and the

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Recognition

Mitchell has been awarded a Fulbright Scholarship, LafargeHolcim Foundation Award, ARCHITECT R+D Award, Senior Fellowship at TED 2011,

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and Assoc. Fellowship, and Martin Society for Sustainability Fellowship at

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. 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,

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w/ MIT Smart Cities. His project, Fab Tree Hab, has been exhibited at MoMA and widely published. He was selected by

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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

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'' Popular Science'' magazine has featured his work as a visionary for “The Future of the Environment” in 2010. Mitchell was the Winner of the

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Social Design Award sponsored by the

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, the

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New York, and the

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in 2011. Dwell magazine featured Mitchell as one of "The NOW 99" in 2012. He won the

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New York, Urban Design Merit Award for; Terreform ONE, Urbaneer Resilient Waterfront Infrastructure, 2013.

Education

He earned a

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, in the Dept. of Architecture, Design and Computation progra

a Master of Architecture in Urban Design (MAUD) at Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD), a

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, and a BPS at the

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with Honors.

Design projects

* Fab Tree Hab *

* Cricket Shelter and Modular Edible Insect Farm * Rapid Re(f)use * Urbaneering Brooklyn: City of the Future * SOFT XO Lamb Car * Green Brain: Smart Park for a New City * New York 2106: Self-Sufficient City * Jetpack Packing and Blimp Bumper BusPopular Science, Future Cities
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Selected publications

* Mitchell Joachim, Maria Aiolova, and Terreform ONE. Design with Life: Biotech Architecture and Resilient Cities, Actar, 2019. *Mitchell Joachim, Mike Silver. XXL-XS: New Directions in Ecological Design, Actar, 2017. * Anker, Peder, Harpman, Louise, and Mitchell Joachim. Global Design: Elsewhere Envisioned, Prestel/ Random House, 2014. * Tandon, Nina and Mitchell Joachim. Super Cells: Building with Biology. TED Books, 2014. * Lasky, Julie, The Beauty of Bacteria, The New York Times, pp. D1, D7, Thur. Jan. 17, 2013. * Myers, William (ed.), Bio Design: Nature + Science + Creativity, Thames & Hudson, The Museum of Modern Art, pp. 10, 58–61. 2012. * Bergman, David, Sustainable Design: A Critical Guide, Princeton Architectural Press, p 135. 2012. * Bua,Matt and Maximillian Goldfarb (ed.), Architectural Inventions: Visionary Drawings, Laurence King Publishing, pp. 20, 72, 144, 318. 2012. * Amoroso, Nadia, Digital Landscape Architecture Now, Thames & Hudson. pp. 17, 242–247. 2012. * Budds, Diana, “The Now 99, The Future of Housing,” Dwell, May, p. 102, 120. 2012. * Mitchell Joachim, "The Necessity of All Scales: Planetary Design in the Age of Globality," Ecological Urban Architecture, Thomas Schroepfer (ed.), Birkhäuser, pp. 174–184. 2012. * Mitchell Joachim, "Envisioning Ecological Cities; Rapid Re(f)use, One Hour Tower, Homeway," Sustainable Urbanism and Beyond: Rethinking Cities for the Future, Tigran Haas (ed.), Rizzoli, pp. 240–245. 2012. * Mitchell Joachim and Maria Aiolova, “Design as a Resource for All Recourses,” Futuristic: Visions of Future Living, Caroline Klein, Prof. Dr. Stefanie Lieb (ed.), DAAB, pp. 242–249. 2012. * Mitchell Joachim, "The Art of Cities," City Vision, Francesco Lipari, Federico Giacomarra (ed.), issue #7, autumn/winter, pp. 64–71. 2012. * Mitchell Joachim, “Envisioning Ecological Cities,” Ecological Urbanism, Mohsen Mostafavi and Gareth Doherty (ed.), pp. 224–29, Harvard University GSD, Lars Muller Publishers, 2010. * John Bradley, "Future of The Environment: The Urban Remodeler," Popular Science, pp. cover, 7, 46–47, July 2010. * Mitchell Joachim, “Agora: Dreams and Visions,” l’Arca, pp. 4– 11, N° 246, April, 2009. * Mitchell Joachim, “Housing for the 21st Century; Urban Refuse, Housing & Wall-E,” eVolo magazine, pp. 62–63, issue 01, Fall, 2009. * Maywa Montenegro, “The Seed Salon: Thomas Lovejoy & Mitchell Joachim,” Seed, pp. 39–44, issue #22, June, 2009. * Matt Pascarella, “Philippe Starck & Mitchell Joachim; Designs for Violence, Ecology, Religion & Politics”, TAR, pp. 198–209, Issue 2, Spring, 2009. * “The RS 100: Agents of Change,” Rolling Stone, p. 63, April 2, 2009. * Tom Vanderbilt, “The 2008 Smart List: Mitchell Joachim, Redesign Cities from Scratch,” Wired, pp. 178–9, 16.10, Oct, 2008. * Michelle Galindo (ed.), 1000X Architecture of the Americas, Verlagshaus Braun, p. 429, 2008. * Tim Groen, Relax – Interiors for Human Wellness, p. 250-3, Birkhäuser, 2007. * Linda Stern, “Terreform: Building Houses Out of Living Trees,” Newsweek, p. E2, May 28, 2007. * Craig Kellogg, “Tree/House,” Interior Design, p. 48, Vol. 78, issue #1, Jan. 1, 2007. * Axel Ritter, Smart Materials: Types, Products, Architecture, pp. 10–11, 142, 160, Birkhäuser, 2006. * Richard Burdett, Cities: Architecture and Society 10, Internazional Di Architettura, International Architectural Exhibition, V.1-2, p. 301, 2006. * Robin Pogrebin, “Visions of Manhattan: For the City, 100-Year Makeovers,” The New York Times, p. A9, Nov. 4, 2006. * Gregory Mone, “Grow Your Second Home,” Popular Science, pp. 38–9, Nov, 2006. * Geeta Dayal, “A Sheep at the Wheel,” Intersection, Issue 03, p. 78-79, 2006. * Mitchell Joachim, Javier Arbona, Lara Greden, “Nature's Home,” 306090 08: Autonomous Urbanism, Kjersti Monson & Alex Duval, ed., NY: Princeton Architectural Press, 2005. * David J. Brown, The HOME House Project: The Future of Affordable Housing, MIT Press, 2005. * Phil Patton, “At M.I.T., Rethinking the Car for City Life,” The New York Times, p. D9, Sep. 6, 2004. * Catherine Fox, “How Harvard would remake Atlanta,” Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Jun. 3, 2001.

References

External links

Archinode Studio

Terreform ONE

Mitchell Joachim Faculty Page
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