Mitchell Joachim

Co-Founder of Terreform ONE and Professor of Practice at NYU

Mitchell Joachim is the Co-Founder of Terreform ONE and Professor of Practice at NYU. Mitchell upheld a noteworthy leadership role as a University Senator and is Co-Chair of Global Design NYU. Formerly, he worked as an architect at the professional offices of Frank Gehry in Los Angeles, Moshe Safdie in Massachusetts, and I.M. Pei in New York. He has won many awards including: Fulbright Scholarship, NEA Grant for Arts Projects, LafargeHolcim Acknowledgement Prize, Ove Arup Foundation Grant, Architect R+D Award, AIA New York Urban Design Merit Award, Victor Papanek Social Design Award, 1st Place International Architecture Award, Zumtobel Award for Sustainability, Architizer A+ Award, History Channel Infiniti Award for City of the Future, and Time Magazine Best Invention with MIT Smart Cities.

He is a TED Senior Fellow and has been awarded fellowships with Safdie Architects, and the Martin Society for Sustainability at MIT. Mitchell was featured in numerous articles: “The 100 People Who Are Changing America” in Rolling Stone, “The Smart List: 15 People the Next President Should Listen To” in Wired. He co-authored four books, “Super Cells: Building with Biology”, “Global Design: Elsewhere Envisioned”, “XXL-XS: New Directions in Ecological Design”, and “Design with Life: Biotech Architecture and Resilient Cities". He earned a Ph.D. at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MAUD at Harvard University, M.Arch at Columbia University with honors