Architect & Urban Designer
Mitchell Joachim is an architect and urban designer, and a partner in the New York- based nonprofit philanthropic organization, Terreform, whose projects focus on integrating the science and principles of ecology into urban design. He has been involved in numerous innovative and award-winning projects, such as the Fab Tree Hab, where custom-grown living trees act as the superstructure of human dwellings, and the ‘smart’ electric-powered, foldable and stackable concept car that redefines the relationship between cars, drivers and urban environments.
Joachim earned a doctorate in architecture from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as well as master’s degrees in both urban design and architecture from Harvard and Columbia Universities. He has been an architect at Gehry Partners, and Pei Cobb Freed & Partners, as well as a visiting professor in Sculpture at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. He has been awarded the Moshe Safdie & Assoc. Research Fellowship, and the Martin Family Society Fellow for Sustainability. He is currently an adjunct professor at Columbia University and a visiting professor at Washington University in St. Louis.
Joachim’s work has garnered him numerous awards, including the "History Channel and Infiniti Design Excellence Award for the City of the Future, New York," and he was credited with "Best Invention of the Year 2007" in Time Magazine for the demonstration car he developed with MIT’s Smart Cities Research Group.
