Sir Norman Foster speaks about the birth and rise of sustainable thinking, technological solutions, and the influence of Buckminster Fuller. Running time 32:05.
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World Peace Dome - starting from Zero by Mitchell Joachim & Michael Sorking Studio (left) and Fab Tree Hab - Local Biota Living Graft by Mitchell Joachim, Javier Arbona & Lara Greden


Mitchell W. Joachim is a PhD candidate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Architecture: Computation Group). His dissertation is entitled Tall Building Clusters for Ecological Cities - An Integrated Code of Structures, Streets, and Skies. Prior to MIT, he completed two master's degree programs; at Harvard University (MAUD) and Columbia University (M.Arch). Currently he is a researcher at the Media Lab Smart Cities Group, collaborating with his advisor William J. Mitchell on the General Motors/Frank O. Gehry Concept Car.



Prior to MIT, he completed two master's degree programs; at Harvard University (MAUD) and Columbia University (M.Arch). Currently he is a researcher at the Media Lab Smart Cities Group, collaborating with his advisor William J. Mitchell on the General Motors/ Frank O. Gehry Concept Car. In parallel with Gehry Partners in Los Angles, he has been actively working 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, and the Michael Sorkin Studio in New York City. Mitchell has served as visiting faculty in sculpture at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. His work is published in "How Harvard would remake Atlanta", (Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 2001), Michael Sorkin Studio: Wiggle (Monacelli Press, 1998), and "The Guru of Impossible Engineering Creates a Car", (Popular Science, 2004). His winning design of living structures - Fab Tree Hab - with Habitat for Humanity and the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art has been honored with a nomination for the INDEX Award and exhibited internationally.


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