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Mitchell Joachim
Architect / Co-Founder, Terraform ONE
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The Shortcomings of Sustainability
September 18, 2009 | In Arts & Culture, Environment
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Big Think Interview with Mitchell Joachim
Big Think sits down with the Columbia and Parsons professor and cofounder of Terraform One. Read More
September 18, 2009 | In Arts & Culture, Environment, Science & Tech
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Putting Architects on the Front Lines
Mitchell Joachim, co-founder of Terreform ONE, describes the positive changes that architects—the ultimate jack-of-all-trades—could bring about in politics, the housing crisis, the military, and retooling Detroit. Read More
September 17, 2009 | In Arts & Culture, Politics & Policy
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The Fab Tree Hab: Finding Home in Living Organisms
The co-founder of Terreform ONE and Professor of Architecture at Columbia, Mitchell Joachim, discusses his plans for the Fab Tree Hab—a ‘positive impact’ home formed entirely from elements of local ecosystems. Read More
September 17, 2009 | In Arts & Culture, Environment, Science & Tech
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As part of his dissertation at MIT, Mitchell Joachim designed a ‘nerf-soft,’ self-healing automobile that promises to prevent deaths from car accidents in our increasingly hot and crowded cities. Read More
September 17, 2009 | In Arts & Culture, Environment, Science & Tech
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When facing large-scale issues like the energy crisis and climate change, Mitchell Joachim argues that our solutions need to be as “big” as our problems. Read More
September 17, 2009 | In Environment, Politics & Policy
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Lifting Suburbia Up, and Putting it on Wheels
Mitchell Joachim describes the 'non-future' of suburban sprawl and the need to rethink mobility in America: to uplift future-less locales and place them along moving, smart, renewable grids. Read More
September 17, 2009 | In Arts & Culture, Environment, Politics & Policy, Science & Tech
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Mitchell Joachim explains how New York can be remodeled to generate all of its needs within its own boundaries and just how long it takes to change a city Read More
September 17, 2009 | In Arts & Culture, Environment, Science & Tech
Mitchell Joachim is a Co-Founder at Terrefuge and Terreform ONE. Currently he is faculty at Columbia University and Parsons. Formerly an architect at Gehry Partners, and Pei Cobb Freed. He has been awarded the Moshe Safdie Research Fellowship, and the Martin Family Society Fellow for Sustainability at MIT. He won the History Channel and Infiniti Design Excellence Award for the City of the Future, and Time Magazine Best Invention of the Year 2007, Compacted 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".
