Dr. J. + Evil Twin Booking Agency

Dr. Mitchell Joachim is represented by Scott Beibin of Evil Twin Booking Agency for future events/actions/lectures/film/TV appearances.
Evil Twin Booking Agency helps you bring politically charged and culturally challenging media to college campuses, theaters, infoshops, community centers, squats, microcinemas, dance clubs, caves and other venues throughout North America, Europe and South America. We manage tours and appearances for today's most prominent politically conscious speakers, authors, films and performers including: Dead Prez, Lost Film Fest, The Yes Men, Who Killed the Electric Car, Why We Fight, FOUND magazine, Bernardine Dohrn, Scream Club, The Corporation, Timothy Speed Levitch, Boots Riley, and more.
http://www.eviltwinbooking.org/index.cfm

Columbia GSAPP Visual Studies EVENT

VS CAD Show Wed. May 14th @ 7pm
We will be showing work from:
Tilling Education: An Eco Aesthetic Approach, 2008.
Dr. Mitchell Joachim,
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Columbia University, GSAPP
TA: Michael Contento
Coordinator: Josh Uhl

Synergy Conference: The Evergreen State College

The Synergy Conference is a local event with a global message. The mission is simple; the integrations of diverse aspects of life into a sustainable model for our societies future. The event was introduced because the founding groups and individuals believed in combining issues of culture, design, ecology, agriculture and social justice and critically analyze their interconnectedness. The goal of the events is to create a collective vision and model of sustainability.

Dr. Mitchell Joachim

Thur. 5/22/08 @ 6:00 P.M. Lecture Hall 1

The Evergreen State College

Olympia, WA.

http://www.evergreen.edu/events/synergy/

Art Daily: 01SJ Global Festival

ZER01 Invites the World To Experience Art on the Edge at 2nd Biennial 01SJ Global Festival
Jane Marsching and Mitchell Joachim (Terrefrom)
http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=23832

New Book - eVolo: Skyscraper for the XXI Century

eVolo: Skyscraper for the XXI Century
by Carlo Aiello,
"PeristalCity," eVolo Publishing, pp.14-15, 2008.
http://www.evolo-arch.com/evolo.swf

New article for Bauwelt

"Profusion of Invention: eVolo Skyscraper Competitions"
Mitchell Joachim, Ph.D. and Melanie Fessel
Bauwelt, May 9th, 2008.
www.bauwelt.de

Fab Tree Hab in Arquitectura y Diseño

Marta Gil, "Architecture in a Tree,"
Arquitectura y Diseño, pp. 169-74. No. 88, April 2008.
www.rba.es

Terreform Expands

Our new second studio location opens in Brooklyn, New York.
We have significantly expanded our staff and work spaces at the Metropolitan Exchange (MEx).
MEx is an architecture, urban planning, and research cooperative located in downtown Brooklyn. The space is made up of design professionals, developers, and scholars who come together to collaborate on architecture and planning projects, pursue development opportunities, and sponsor lectures, film screenings and exhibitions.
TERREFORM
THE METROPOLITAN EXCHANGE
33 FLATBUSH AVENUE 6F
BROOKLYN, NY 11217
www.metropolitanexchange.org

Future North: Noah Clones

Ecotarium bound biospherians dwell in the ex-Arctic landscape of tomorrow near the poles.

Photos & model by Dan O'Connor

Terreform at BOOST (Building Open Opportunity Structures)

BOOST to host Mitchell Joachim of Terreform, on sustainable architecture.
June 7th 2008
117 South Warren Street, Trenton, NJ.
Green, Smart, and Sustainable Stakeholder Education and Training 2008-09 (GSS-SET) are the natural outgrowth of our past efforts for community benefits by way of engaging redevelopment and economic growth-producing activities. GSS-SET will contribute to fighting global warming and pollution by stimulating the green building and clean energy economy and positioning local community leaders to help their constituencies capture a good portion of green collar jobs, develop or expand green businesses, and conduct advocacy and policy work to the benefit of populations with barriers to employment.

For more information about Building Open Opportunity Structures Together (BOOST), GSS-SET 2008-09, and the June 7 launch, please call our voice/fax center at (206) 202-2883 or email gss-set@gss-set.com.

Ecotariums at the North Pole

The Future North Ecotarium project is based on the premise that within the next hundred years our climate will be irreversible altered. Massive migrations of urban populations will move north to escape severe flooding and increased temperatures. Area inside the Artic regions will warm up significantly, making their occupation newly desirable. Real-Estate values will shift to privilege northern climates that formerly had almost no human inhabitants. To underscore the intensity of such a global shift, we have moved entire cities. The reality of hundreds of millions of people relocating their respective centers of culture, business, and life is almost incomprehensible. We anticipate this polemical representation will impact our perception of tomorrow.

The movie installation will premier at:
MASS MoCA Badlands: New Horizons in Landscape
and 01SJ: A global festival of art on the edge
by
Jane D. Marsching and Dr. Mitchell Joachim/ Terreform
curators: Denise Markonish at MASS MoCA and Steve Dietz at SJMA

Taking Back the Streets, Sunday NY Times

"Taking Back the Streets,"
by Jeff Byles, New York Times,
p. CY11, Sun. April 6, 2008.





Gentle Congestion:
Instead of designing cities for cars, why not design cars for a kinder city?
That’s what researchers at the Media Lab of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have cooked up: smarter, gentler modes of urban transportation. “If you think of your average car, it doesn’t have the same smarts as a horse,” said Mitchell Joachim, a former Media Lab researcher. A horse, he points out, is unlikely to run off the road, naturally avoids head-on collisions, and at least comes when you whistle. With the horse in mind, Dr. Joachim, now executive director of a New York design collaborative called Terreform, has helped conceive of a lightweight electric car that would sense the presence of other vehicles and slow down in potentially dangerous areas.
On-board navigation systems would drive people where they wanted to go. Parking meters, linked to each other and to the vehicles, could signal an open space. These smart cars would even sense that pothole you just ran over, and report it to maintenance crews. Because the vehicles could be made of soy-based plastic shells that could bump into each other without damage, they could move in flocks. Designers call it “gentle congestion.” Quick braking systems protect pedestrians, so there is no need for sidewalks, lanes or signals.

World Science Festival: May 30th - NYC

Mitchell Joachim
is speaking at the
World Science Festival:
http://www.worldsciencefestival.com/
on the Future Cities Panel:
Majora Carter
Dickson Despommier
Peter Head
Blaine Brownell
Friday, May 30, 8:00 PM - 9:30 PM,
NYU - Kimmel Center for University Life
Future Cities: Sustainable Solutions, Radical Designs — We stand at a crossroads. Cities must change radically to achieve long-term sustainability. Energy, food and water sources, transportation systems and basic infrastructure, must all adapt to emerging pressures from climate change, dwindling resources and growing urban populations.
How will we meet this immense challenge? In a program that is part celebration of human ingenuity and part stark reminder of the problems we face, influential architects, urban planners, scientists and technologists lay out radical blueprints and innovative solutions as they imagine housing, feeding, transporting and sustaining city dwellers of the not too distant future.
other speakers include:
Alan Alda, Cynthia Breazeal, Brian Greene, Peter Galison, Ray Kurzweil, Richard Leaky, Oliver Sacks, David Sinclair, Saul Griffith, and MORE

Ecogram: The Sustainability Question

NEW GSAPP EVENT
OCT. 19th-25th, 2008
ECOGRAM:
The Sustainability Question
at Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning & Preservation
Dean: Marc Wigley
Faculty: Mitchell Joachim, Ph.D. &
Ioanna Theocharopoulou, Ph.D.

Benjamin Prosky, Director of Special Events
Melissa Cowley Wolf, Associate Director, Alumni Relations
more TBA: www.ecogram.org

X-OLOGY Magazine: Fab Tree Hab

"Going Green - Tree houses are branching out".
by Jane Gleeson,
X-ology, p.19, Winter 2008.
http://www.xology.com/w08/w08_green.php

Riva Ring 2023

A design for Riva – like that of any city – must harmonize desire, context, and
constraint. Physically, the site is blessed by its dramatic proximity to the Black
Sea, by rolling hills, by a sinuous river, by green fields and forests, by intimate
beaches, by an existing town of intimate informality, by a protected forest buffer,
and by its easy proximity to Istanbul.
It is, however, challenged by salt winds, demanding topography, by the risk of
becoming a mere commuter dormitory, by existing plans and infrastructures, and
by a pattern of land holdings and regulations that demand what may be a too even
distribution of building across the site. Riva is no tabula rasa and our approach is
shaped by a set of prior decisions we might not have made. For example, were
there an effective way of consolidating and transferring development rights, it
would be possible to create a much more compact city, one less challenged by
low densities and sprawl.

The Masdar Competition

The MASDAR Biome is

both a revolutionary and an evolutionary structure intended to embody the best available practices for both sustainability and sociability. Like the new city in which it sits, the MASDAR Biome will be a visual and functional landmark on the pathway to a rational planetary future. We strongly believe that this future must penetrate every aspect of city building, that the ecological perspective has long taught us that natural systems are complex, distributed, and dynamic. We hope that this project, in this remarkable city, will play its role not simply within the perimeter of its own property but as a key actor for the city as a whole and for the new cities its construction so dramatically portends.

As we illustrate in our submission, our proposal will embody and expand upon virtually all of the suggested technologies laid out in the project brief. Understanding that sustainability must be achieved on both supply and demand sides of the equation, we have worked closely with our engineers not simply to assure the lowest energy (actual and embodied), water, waste, emissions and air quality, toxicity, and life-cycle cost, via consumption or production. And, we have sought to achieve this with a maximum emphasis on the most passive available systems. Throughout, we have utilized these technologies not simply as the means to technical solutions to environmental projects but as a way of foregrounding the importance of the people – and the needs of their human bodies – who will occupy this space.

Home Concepts magazine: Fab Tree Hab

"Eco Light Home...Naturally"
by Huang Nickmatul
Home Concepts, pp. 28-32, March 2008.
http://www.lexicon.com.sg/singapore/print/hc_pg.asp

Zurich to Ronchamp

All glad to be back home.

Terreform at MASS MoCA

Badlands: New Horizons in Landscape
Opens May 24, 2008
Jane D. Marsching and Terreform
http://www.massmoca.org/event_details.php?id=369

Telegraph UK highlights the Fab Tree Hab

Ideal Home Show: Why tomorrow never came
Chris Stevens, Telegraph.co.uk, March 8, 2008.
"Days of future passed: Predictions that stil have potential
Grow your own buildings MIT architect Mitchell Joachim has been working on a building called the Fab Tree Hab, which is constructed out of living trees. These trees are physically bound together to form a solid structure. The next step would be to genetically engineer a tree to grow in the shape of a house.
The tree would form walls and floors as it matured, and grow a new extension every year."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/main.jhtml?xml=/property/2008/03/08/ptomorrow108.xml

Arboreal Architecture Prototype

Fab Tree Hab: accurately controlled living plant geometry to form dwellings.

Just as the modern biotechnology revolution owes its existence to the intelligence in ecosystems at the molecular level, sustainable technologies for homes can also benefit from biological, natural systems; however, starting at the molecular scale is not necessary. Rather, as the intention of this design explores, lumber maintained in its macro, living form becomes a superstructure. Templates, cut from 3D computer files control the plant growth in the early stages. After a time the templates are removed and reused in a new home.
- New 3D model fabrication with Edward Ward.

A True Homegrown Investment: Fab Tree Hab

"A True Homegrown Investment"
by: Marie Langhout, NuWire Investor, Feb. 19, 2008.
Can’t afford to build a house? Grow one.
http://www.nuwireinvestor.com/blogs/thebrinktank/2008/02/true-homegrown-investment.html

High Gloss/ Social Conscience at SCOPE

Louise Blouin Media (publishers of Art+Auction, Modern Painters, Culture+Travel) is presenting a discussion panel at the SCOPE Art Fair on Saturday 29th March between 5pm – 6pm.

High Gloss/ Social Conscience
participants:
Craig Kellogg, editor at Interior Design
James Zemaitis, Vice President of the Design Dept. Sotheby’s
Rick Cook, Cook + Fox Architects
Morgan Falconer, writer
Dr. Mitchell Joachim, Partner at Terreform

Susan Morris, editor in chief of Modern Painters, moderator.
at The SCOPE Pavilion, Lincoln Center.
http://www.scope-art.com/home.php?section=home

Synergy Conference

Synergy: The 7th Annual Sustainable Living Conference
The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington
May 23rd-24th, 2008.
Dr. Mitchell Joachim of Terreform: Ecotransology - Collapse of Nature
www.evergreen.edu/synergy

01SJ: Global Festival of Art on the Edge

Earthtimes - London, UK:
Terreform (Mitchell Joachim) will be showcased w/ Jane Marsching
Future North: Ecotarium - An Observatory of Nature’s Collapse

SAN JOSE, CA -- 02/04/08 -- ZER01, organizers of 01SJ, a Global Festival of Art on the Edge, today announced plans for its second biennial festival here, June 4-8. 01SJ will feature transformative and provocative new works from world-renowned artists and performers at the cross-section of contemporary art, technology, and culture. The five-day Festival will incorporate exhibitions, films, concerts, performances, happenings, and nightlife occurring throughout downtown San Jose's parks, public streets, museums, theaters, and clubs. http://www.01sj.org/
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/zer01-invites-the-world-to-experience-art-on-the-edge,269760.shtml

Transmaterial 2: Super Cilia Skin

Super Cilia Skin project inside:
"Transmaterial 2: A Catalog of Materials That Redefine Our Physical Environment," Blaine Brownell,
Princeton Architectural Press, 2008.
http://www.amazon.com/Transmaterial-Materials-Redefine-Physical-Environment/dp/1568987226/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1201387330&sr=8-1
Super Cilia Skin:
http://www.archinode.com/medialab3.html
MIT Team:
Mitchell Joachim, Hayes Raffle, James Tichenor

NEW Terreform Website Launched

www.terreform.org

Edge as Center, Somerville MA

"Go Figure Somerville"
by Mitchell Joachim
& Michael Sorkin
Edited by Anya Bokov
EDGE as CENTER;
Envisioning the post-industrial landscape.
Somerville MA. 2007.
International Urban Design Ideas Competition.

de Architect: Almere Hout w/ MUST, NL

Harry den Hartog, "Getemd wild wonen," de Architect, NL, pp. 67, No. 6 June 2007.
http://dearchitect.sdu.nl/do/welkom
MUST: http://www.must.nl

TATLIN news: Terreform

Vladimir Belogolovsky, "Terreform,"
Tatlin News, Russia, pp. 70-75, No.4 (40) 48 2007.
http://www.tatlin.ru/index.php?page=about&id=100113

Marie Claire: Fab Tree Hab

Marie Claire, Deco, "Fab Tree Hab,"
By Ioanna Michelakou, Greece, p.101, Nov. 2007.

Vision Magazine: MIT City Cars

Vision, "Return to Intelligence - MIT City Car,"
Sissia Cao, pp. 188-193, China, No. 08, August 2007.
http://youthvision.cn/

Architects League of Northern New Jersey Lecture

AIA chapter ALNNJ
Annual League Arthur Davis Lecture
Terreform, Dr. Mitchell Joachim, Nov. 15, 2007.
http://alnnj.org/

Made in India (Architectural Design)

Made in India (Architectural Design) by Kazi Ashraf

"A Trip to India," p. 84-89, Nov./Dec. 2007

Eco tree houses come of age

Fab Tree Hab on Smart Planet UK
Eco tree houses come of age SmartPlanet.com - London,UK
Innovative designers are creating tree houses that live and 'breathe,' like the Fab Tree Hab. It uses high-tech computer modelling and ancient techniques ...
http://www.smartplanet.com/news/leisure/10000032/eco-tree-houses-come-of-age.htm

CBC TV: Fab Tree Hab

The Hour on CBC, "Water this Segment!"
Is This A Good Idea?: Fab Tree Hab
By Hilary Doyle, Oct 26, 2007.

http://goodidea.cbc.ca/2007/10/a_blossoming_home.htm

Gang of Green: DigitALL Magazine Heroes

TERREFORM, THE ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH AND ARCHITECTURE FIRM OF MICHAEL SORKIN AND MITCHELL JOACHIM, IS RIPPING UP THE PAVEMENT OF URBANPLANNING
"...the ecological research, urban planning, and architecture firm of Michael Sorkin and Mitchell Joachim. These two architects’ work is full of epic ambitions and fantastical ideas, including city plans based on total urban self-sufficiency, houses made of growing trees, and soft, sheep-like cars that scrub the atmosphere clean with every drive. Of course, most architects have drawers full of unrealized blueprints. But Terreform’s architecture of ecological engagement sacrifices any pretense of pragmatism in order to reach for a realm of unbridled, futuristic innovation..."
Craig Bromberg, Samsung, p. 10/48 Fall 2007.
http://www.samsung.com/Features/BrandMagazine/magazinedigitall/2007_fall/heroes_02.htm

Relax - Interiors for Human Wellness

The Human-Powered River Gym project

by Mitchell & Douglas Joachim

is published within:

"Relax - Interiors for Human Wellness"

with Karim Rashid, Anneke Bokern, Joeri Bruyninckx, Tim Groen, Sarah Martín Pearson, Shonquis Moreno, Stephan Ott, Chris Scott and Masaaki Takahashi.

Birkhäuser Basel; 1 edition (November 2007)

http://www.amazon.com/Relax-Interiors-Wellness-Anneke-Bokern/dp/3764383925/ref=sr_1_2/105-5757793-2651658?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1192567361&sr=1-2

CNET Extreme Tree Houses: Fab Tree Hab

Extreme tree houses CNET News.com - San Francisco,CA,USA.
Future-forward designers are concocting tree houses that live and "breathe," such as the Fab Tree Hab. It uses high-tech computer modeling and ancient ...See all stories on this topic
http://www.news.com/2300-11395_3-6210710-1.html

GSAPP course: Tilling Education

A4746 Tilling Education: An Eco Aesthetic Approach.
Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation.
Dr. Mitchell Joachim
http://www.arch.columbia.edu/index.php?pageData=8882/23/4/3235/

Fab Tree Hab in El Periódico de Catalunya magazine

Ana Sanchez, "Casas Con Vida Propia," El Periódico, Dominical, p.14, no. 258, Aug. 8, 2007.
http://www.elperiodico.com/

Southern Housing Excellance magazine: Fab Tree Hab

"Grow your own: Terreform’s Fab Tree Hab takes ‘green’ architectural design into the heart of the environment by creating a structure that is in itself alive and an integral part of the ecosystem. Think organic engineering, utilising living systems to create both form and function – and perhaps one day a whole new breed of gardening-come-home-improvement television shows."
Monday, 20 August 2007, UK.
http://www.southern-housing.co.uk/features/the-earthships-have-landed-885-14.html

Fab Tree Hab in Grazia Italy

Stefania Uberti, "La Mia Casa Sugli Alberi,"
Grazia, p. 24, no. 32, Aug. 14, 2007.
http://grazia.blog.it/

Fab Tree Hab in Immobilien Osterreich

Dietmar Treiber, "Das Haus lebt, atmet und wachst,"
Immobilien, Osterreich, p.12, Fri. Aug. 10th, 2007.

Soft Car in D la Repubblica delle Donne

Erica Baldi, "Soft Car ," D la Repubblica delle Donne, No. 555, June 30, 2007.

Fab Tree Hab in DIE WELT

Dietmar Treiber, "Wachsendes Haus,"
Die Welt, pp. IM1, IM3, June 23, 2007
http://www.welt.de/welt_print/article968263/Wachsendes_Haus.html

National Geographic Kids: Fab Tree Hab

Cathy Lu, “Green House,” National Geographic Kids, p. 22, Jun./ Jul. 2007.
http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/

Fab Tree Hab on BauNetz

"MIT entwickelt wachsende Häuser"
(MIT develops increasing houses)
http://www.baunetz.de/db/news/?news_id=84035

Panorama Magazine Italy: Fab Tree Hab

http://www.panorama.it/
Alberi a forma di casa
p.254, N.22, May 31, 2007.

City of Sound + Postopolis!: Mitchell Joachim

Notes on the talk at Storefront for Art and Architecture in New York:
link here: http://www.cityofsound.com/blog/2007/06/postopolis_mitc.html

Tree house living, the next green thing?

CNET News.com: Fab Tree Hab
http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9724481-7.html

Spa-De Magazine: MATscape + Fab Tree Hab

Yoshiko Kasuga, "Human Nest,"
SPA-DE Space & Design ~ International Review of Interior Design
Vol. 7, p. 46-48, 2007.
SPA-DE―Space & Design~International Review of Interior Design (Vol.7)

Postopolis Talk on U Tube

see video for Postopolis
at Storefront for Art and Architecture
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9VWD3-07Us
or
http://www.youtube.com/storefrontgallery

Mediaweek: Living Home

Does Green Grow Green For Media?
Richard Brunelli
Media Week, MAY 14, 2007.
"The series portrays green-skewing designers, products and processes that, potentially, can transform the everyday lives of viewers. Interviewees range from professional race car driver and ethanol advocate Jeff Simmons to an MIT grad named Mitchell Joachim, who is building a home grown from living trees, to a "guerrilla gardener" named Heather Flores, who champions green spaces in poor New York City neighborhoods..."
http://www.mediaweek.com/mw/departments/features/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003584537

P.M. Magazine: Fab Tree Hab

Bio-Bau (Biobuilding)
Aus Baumstämmen ein Haus flechten
(From Trunks Twist a House)
by Wolfgang C. Goede
P.M. p. 14, June 2007.
http://www.pm-magazin.de/de/heftartikel/artikel_id1999.htm

Newsweek: Fab Tree Hab

"Terreform: Building Houses Out of Living Trees"
Newsweek, May 28, 2007 by Linda Stern.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18685383/site/newsweek/?from=rss#storyContinued

Focus Magazine: Fab Tree Hab

"Grun & Gut: Baumhaus," Robert Thielicke,
Focus, p.110, No. 18, April 30, 2007
http://www.focus.de/

Home Wellness Magazine: Fab Tree Hab

"Vivere Eco,"
by Sara Lisa Di Mario
p.153-55, n.01 April-May 2007.
http://www.homewellness.it/

Designnews.com: MIT Car

MIT Moves Forward with Smart Cities and Stackable Cars
by Sean Snyder, Associate Editor -- Design News, May 15, 2007.
"The designers behind Concept Cars have re-evaluated the use and function of cars in the city with new designs that remove the drive train and put precedence on robotic wheels. “We reinvented the wheel, or actually, we rethought it,” says Mitchell Joachim, former MIT student and current Smart Cities committee member."
http://www.designnews.com/article/CA6442404.html

Terreform at Postopolis! May 30th at 6:30pm

Postopolis!
at Storefront for Art and Architecture
Featuring BLDGBLOG, City of Sound, Inhabitat, and Subtopia
Postopolis! is a five-day event of near-continuous conversation about architecture, urbanism, landscape, and design. Four bloggers, from four different cities, will host a series of live discussions, interviews, slideshows, panels, talks, and other presentations, and fuse the informal energy and interdisciplinary approach of the architectural blogosphere with the immediacy of face to face interaction.
http://storefrontnews.org/exhibitions/upcoming.html

Terreform Future NYC movie

Link: NY City MPEG movie file

http://www.terreform.org/terreform_st.mp4

New Yorker: "the Green" advertising

The Green with Robert Redford on the Sundance Channel:
"...MIT genius Mitchell Joachim creates a spectacular futuristic living space with his Fab Tree Hab living house, made from trees".
The New Yorker, p. 14, April 30, 2007,

MIT Spectrum

Beyond Green Design by Mary Speare
Mitchell Joachim, an MIT architect, says people may one day grow their houses instead of building them. MIT Spectrum, Spring 2007, Vol. XVIII No. IX p. 10
http://web.mit.edu/giving/spectrum/spring07/green-design.htm

Global Warming Burnout

I guess you can't really have bad press. This sardonic reporter mentions our work for Manhattan appearing on Sundance. He also seems to loath Hollywood chatter on climate change. Odd thing, he is not entirely off...

Brendan Bernhard, "Global Warming Burnout," The New York Sun, April 25, 2007.

http://www.nysun.com/article/53104?page_no=2

"Tonight's episode, "Build," is about three kinds of housing: prefab homes, or "sustainable modular houses built in a factory"; more traditional multifamily homes, newly outfitted with bamboo floors, recycled carpets, geothermal heating, etc., and "growing homes," which are a bit more futuristic. Some appear to be giant beehives encased in trees. Mitchell Joachim, a graduate of MIT, displays an architectural model of what a "100% self-sufficient" Lower Manhattan will look like 300 years from now. I am here to tell you it will look like a plate of spaghetti garnished with multicolored golf balls. If someone offers you eternal life, do not accept."

Metropolis Magazine Highlights Offices

180 Varick Street
A look at the work spaces inside New York City’s infamous design address. By Stephen Zacks, April 18, 2007.

http://www.metropolismag.com/cda/story.php?artid=2616

"The office building at 180 Varick Street in Manhattan’s West Village is sometimes sarcastically referred to as an architecture ghetto. It’s filled with studios, each of them packed with the mundane objects and tools that make up the working life of today’s designer."

LES from SCRATCH: NY Press

"LES FROM SCRATCH"
Architects re-imagine the city for the next century
By Jerry Portwood
New York Press
Vol. 20, No.16, pp. 14-16, April 18-24, 2007.
http://www.nypress.com/20/16/news&columns/feature3.cfm

Not Another Green Issue
by Kari Milchman
Fab Tree Hab images

Car Body Design: Transology

Transology: Reinventing The Wheel
by Mitchell Joachim, Axel Kilian, William J. Mitchell
http://www.carbodydesign.com/detail.php?id=742

BIG Ideas for a Small Planet

See TERREFORM and Fab Tree Hab on the Sundance Channel: 'Big Ideas For A Small Planet'. episode -Build- April 24, 9:00PM.

Green Building Press

The Ultimate Green Building
Fab Tree Hab
28 March 2007
http://www.newbuilder.co.uk/news/NewsFullStory.asp?ID=1591

World House Radio

Institute without Boundaries, World House Project
Fab Tree Hab construction system
Interview by Sarah Tranum
download podcast:
http://www.worldhouseradio.blogspot.com/

Fab Tree Hab in Cobouw NL

"Levend Boomhuis"
by Irene de Bel
Technical editor
http://www.cobouw.nl/

Welcome Maria Aiolova to Terreform

Maria Aiolova received her Master in Architecture in Urban Design from Harvard University, Graduate School of Design in Cambridge, Massachusetts, her Bachelor in Architecture from University of Sofia, Bulgaria and the Technical University of Vienna, Austria. She also holds Professional Degree in Architecture from Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston, Massachusetts. Maria has a number of winning competitions including first place in the CHARLES/MGH STATION Design Competition, Boston and the Izmir Post District International Urban Design Competition in Izmir, Turkey. As a founder and director of Compost Art Center, nonprofit artists residency program, Maria has been involved in the design and construction of affordable and dynamic space for artists in the new millennium. Located in Southampton, Long Island, New York, the Center established a unique laboratory for artists, students and individuals of all ages and backgrounds to explore the creative process. In 2002, Maria formed a Design/Build Partnership focused on design and construction sustainable houses of modest scale and budget in the Hamptons. The houses she designed and built represent an appreciation of the intense beauty of the East End of Long Island; challenging the current standards of grandiosity and repetition; utilizing simple design and sustainable building strategies. In addition to her diverse design work, Maria has been a visiting critic at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University, Rhode Island School of Design and Boston Architectural Center.
http://www.aiolova.com/pages/index.aspx

Science Donga, Korea (cover)

Green Car
By Mitchell Joachim
DongaScience.com
Lee, Hyun-Kyeong
Seoul, Korea
Issue #03, March 2007.

Harvard University Center for the Environment Speaker Series

ECOTRANSOLOGY:
Integrated Design for Urban Mobility
Harvard Graduate School + Green Design group
Mitchell Joachim
PAST EVENT
Friday, Mar 2, 200712:00p - 1:00p
http://environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/activities.htm?event_id=64796240

Nat and Drew in the Morning Z95

Today: Live Radio with

Nat and Drew

http://www.z95.com/

1:30pm EST

Dr. Joachim: Fab Tree Hab + Ecological Cities

Canadian Media on Fab Tree Hab

TV:
Fab Tree Hab project
and interview featured on
CTV, Canada AM today.
8:30am
http://www.ctv.ca/canadaam

CKNW Radio: Nightline BC with Michael Smyth