Toronto Star reviews our exhibition

A meat home on the renewable range
by Christopher Hume
Sat. Jan. 23, 2010, Toronto Star
"To save the world, we must first reinvent it. So says Brooklyn-based architect and visionary Mitchell Joachim. And he's not talking about tinkering here or tweaking there, but a total remake, top to bottom. His proposals range from impact-absorbing "soft cars" and towers clad in compacted trash to movable dwellings and "meat houses". If that strikes you as scary, relax. This is one revolution we're going to enjoy."
http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/article/754129--hume-a-meat-home-on-the-renewable-range

2009-10 Frank Gehry International Visiting Chair in Architectural Design

Dr. Joachim is the Visiting Frank Gehry Chair at the University of Toronto. Named in honour of Frank O. Gehry, this endowed chair brings a highly recognized international architect to teach a graduate studio and deliver a public lecture at Daniels each year.
http://www.daniels.utoronto.ca/people/faculty/gehry_chair/1310

Lecture at University of Toronto

Lecture at Waterloo

University of Waterloo
School of Architecture
7 Melville Street South
Cambridge, Ontario
http://www.architecture.uwaterloo.ca/news+events/lectures/lectures.html

New legal counsel for Terreform ONE

Christopher J. Glancy
Partner
White & Case, LLP
1155 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10036
http://www.whitecase.com/cglancy/

One Day Tower - 24 Hours of NYC Refuse

credits: Mitchell Joachim, Ian Slover, Philip Weller, Andrea Michalski, Alan Paukman.

TED Fellowship 2010

Organizers of the TED Conference announced today the 25 TED Fellows who will participate in TED2010, the annual conference in Long Beach, CA.
The TED2010 Fellows reflect both geographic and discipline diversity. From Israel to Brazil to Malaysia, these innovators excel in the technology, entertainment, design, science, film, art, music, entrepreneurship and nonprofit worlds. The group also includes filmmakers, engineers, artists, scientists and musicians.

TED Fellow: Mitchell Joachim, Architect and co-founder of Terreform ONE + Terrefuge, non-profit design groups that promote ecological design in cities.
see here

MICA Lecture

Nationally-Known Artists and Historians at MICA:
MITCHELL JOACHIM, FUTURE CITIES BY MASSIVE DESIGN
Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA)
Dec. 9, Brown Center, Baltimore, MD.

Global Warning: Artists on Climate Change at BAM

Part of the 2009 Next Wave Festival
Sat, Dec 5 at 5pm at BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music)
In conjunction with Terra Nova: Sinfonia Antarctica, composer/writer DJ Spooky’s sound and visual exploration of the Antarctic, Global Warning: Artists on Climate Change brings together three artists for a conversation about the climate crisis and its emergence as a theme in the arts. DJ Spooky joins ecological designer/architect Mitchell Joachim, selected by Rolling Stone as one of "The 100 People Who Are Changing America;" and MacArthur Award recipient Julie Mehretu, known for her “singular and poetic” (The New York Times) map-like paintings that challenge traditional notions of geography and space, for an engaging discussion moderated by NPR and BBC contributor Tania Ketenjian.
http://www.bam.org/view.aspx?pid=1275

Heeb Magazine, Grave New World: Mitchell Joachim

Heeb Issue #22 : Feature Interview by Mary Block, special thanks to Oliver Noble.
We recently sat down with four modern-day prophets—specializing in everything from the World Wide Web to the fearsome Mayan Gods — hoping that their outlook on the future would be different from that of there predecessors;
http://www.heebmagazine.com/
Daniel Pinchbeck
Howard Bloom
Mitchell Joachim – "Do you know what one million more trees will do to carbon loading in the atmosphere? Nothing."
Douglas Rushkoff

One Prize Design Competition

Introducing the One Prize: Award $10,000

CALLING ALL FUTURE-FORWARD ARCHITECTS, URBAN DESIGNERS, PLANNERS, ENGINEERS, SCIENTISTS, ARTISTS, STUDENTS AND INDIVIDUALS OF ALL BACKGROUNDS: How would you reinvent the American garden?

Select Jury:

Margaret Crawford, Dickson Despommier, Margie Ruddick, Cameron Sinclair, Kate Stohr, Bruce Lindsey, and more TBA.

Please see updates and further information at www.oneprize.org

Architecture of Change 2

Architecture of Change 2: Sustainability and Humanity in the Built Environment, Editors: K. Feireiss, L. Feireiss, Terrefuge, pp. 220-225, Gestalten, Berlin 2009

The Future City Beautiful - Expo 2009

Success!
Keynote Lecture: Mitchell Joachim
Rocky Mountain Commercial Real Estate Expo, Nov. 10, 2009.

Denver, Colorado
http://www.rmexpoforecast.com/speakers/joachim.html

Ecology Design NOW at Center for Architecture

Class: Ecology Design Now w/ Terreform ONE
The Public School, Telic Arts Exchange
at Center for Architecture A.I.A. NY
http://nyc.thepublicschool.org/class/1420
Special Thanks: Todd Rouhe, Maria Ibañez de Sendadiano, IdS/R architecture

Ecogram II at GSAPP Columbia University

please see www.ecogram.org
Special Thanks to Mark Wigley and Benjamin Prosky

Monday, October 12, 2009 at 6:30 pm
Invisible Cities. Innovation and Complexity in Informal Settlements Roundtable hosted by Ioanna Theocharopoulou + Mitchell Joachim, (GSAPP and Parsons the New School for Design)
Urban Think Tank, Alfredo Brillembourg + Hubert Klumpner / GSAPP Margaret Crawford, Professor of Architecture, College of Environmental Design, UC Berkeley Teddy Cruz, Professor in Public Culture, Visual Arts Department, UC San DiegoChristian Werthmann, Associate Professor, Program Director in Landscape Architecture, Harvard University

Tuesday, October 13, 2009 at 6:30 pm
Informal Urban Economics in the Global South
Joseph Stiglitz, University Professor of Economics, Columbia University

Wednesday October 14, 2009 at 6:30 pm Climate Change and Human Rights
Bianca Jagger, Human Rights advocate, Council of Europe Goodwill Ambassador, Chair of the World Future Council. Followed by exhibit opening: ECO-REDUX at 8:30 pmCurated by Lydia Kalipoliti, Avery Hall, 2nd Floor

Thursday, October 15, 2009 at 7-9 pmSafari 7 Reading Room, Exhibition opening, Co-curated by Glen Cummings, Janette Kim, and Kate Orff. at Studio-X, 180 Varick Street , Ste. 1610

Friday, 10/16 from 1-3 PM Avery Hall, Room 114,
Columbia University Roundtable Discussion & Debate: ECOGRAM II: What is Green Learning at GSAPP? With Glen Cummings, Janette Kim, Kate Orff, Mitchell Joachim and Ioanna Theorcharopoulou and others Hosted and Organized by GREEN BUILDERS @ Columbia

TBA
Greening the City of Chicago Richard M. Daley, Mayor of Chicago Hosted by Dean Mark Wigley

Homeway: The Future Street at Pratt Gallery NY

Reshaping Cities on CNBC

The Business of Innovation hosted by Maria Bartiromo
RESHAPING CITIES - Premiered Monday, October 5th
Each year, we add the equivalent of seven New Yorks to the planet, creating strains our ageing cities are struggling to handle. The intelligent city won't just survive under this strain - it will flourish. Touching upon public safety, traffic, “self-aware” buildings, and smart grids, this show introduces the systems that will make the cities of the future both successful and sustainable.
Thought Leaders:
Mitchell Joachim, PhD, Urban Designer and Architect
Paul Romer, PhD, Senior Fellow at Stanford University.
Michael Chernoff, former US Secretary of Homeland Security.
Special Thanks: Terry Murphy, Jessica Gerstle, Sarah Orenstein.
see video: http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=1285639918&play=1#

Fab Tree Hab: Garten + Landschaft cover

Review of Harvard GSD Ecological Urbanism conference:

"Landschaftsarchitektur als Marke"

by Jürgen Weidinger

pp. 10-13, Sept. 2009.

Special thanks; Gesa Loschwitz, Peter Zöch

Redaktion Garten + Landschaft

http://www.garten-landschaft.de/Blaettern-Ausgabe-900.html

TerreFarm Video

New Video at Babelgum
Directed by Kelly Loudenberg
Camera: Brandon Jourdan
See our Brooklyn roof top farm video here:
http://www.babelgum.com/browser.php#play/SEARCH_SIMILAR,clipID:4002577,includeClip:true,order:MOST_RELEVANT/0,4002577

Sustainable cities are the solution

Guardian UK, Sunday 13 September
by David Lepeska
...a constellation of designers, architects and academics gathered at a conference on "ecological urbanism" at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design earlier this year.
Mitchell Joachim, who teaches architecture and design at Columbia University and was selected by Wired magazine as one of 15 people Obama should listen to, presented his vision for a collapsible and stackable electric city car, which would hang at public recharging stations, available for shared use.
He also explained "meat tectonics". Aiming to use meat proteins developed in a lab as building material, Joachim presented a digital rendering of an armadillo-shaped, kidney-coloured home. "It's very ugly, we know that," he said. "We're not sure what a meat house is supposed to look like."
guardian.co.uk
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2009/sep/13/cities-carbon-emissions-environment-urban-planning