Mitchell Joachim, Ph.D.
He completed his doctorate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Architecture: Design and Computation. His dissertation is entitled: Ecotransology - Integrated Design for Urban Mobility. He is faculty at Washington University and Columbia University. Prior to MIT, he accomplished two master's degree programs: Harvard University MAUD, and Columbia University M.Arch. His BPS was fulfilled through SUNY at Buffalo with honors. Currently he is a Partner in the nonprofit organization Terreform 1. Formerly as a researcher at the Media Lab Smart Cities Group, he collaborated with his advisor William J. Mitchell on the General Motors/ Frank O. Gehry Concept Car. In parallel with Gehry Partners in Los Angles, he actively worked as an architect on the Brooklyn Atlantic Yards Project. During his time in Cambridge, he has been the Moshe Safdie and Associates Research Fellow award winner and a Martin Family Society Fellow for Sustainability. Previously he has been an architect at Pei, Cobb, Freed and Partners in New York. Mitchell has served as visiting faculty in sculpture at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. His work has been published within 306090, Newsweek, Popular Science, Discovery News, Frieze, Intersection, L'Arca, Esquire, Monacelli Press, New York Magazine, Rizzoli, Technology Review, The Boston Globe, The New York Times, and more. His winning design of living structures - Fab Tree Hab - with Habitat for Humanity has been honored with a nomination for the world's largest design and innovation INDEX Award and exhibited internationally. Also awarded the Time Magazine Best Invention of the Year 2007, Compacted Car, w/ Smart Cities Group.
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