Terreform ONE

ONE Prize Award Ceremony + Exhibition at AIA NY

2012-01-18T13:44:00.000-05:00

When: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18

Where: A.I.A. New York: The Center for Architecture

Join us for the award ceremony and opening of the exhibition
ONE Prize 2011: Water as the Sixth Borough
Exhibition on view at the Center for Architecture January 18 - February 11, 2012.

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Talk Radio: Burning Down the House

2012-01-08T21:04:00.004-05:00

Heritage Radio Network: This week's conversation on Burning Down the House focuses on the fusion between urban design, architecture, transportation and shape of our cities. Curtis B. Wayne is joined by Mitchell Joachim and Melanie Fessel of Terreform ONE (Open Network Ecology), an Ecological Design Group for Urban Infrastructure, Building, Planning, and Art. Later on the show, the discussion shifts towards the sensitive and heated topic of licensure in architecture within their non-profit practice. This program was sponsored by White Oak Pastures.

"Pedestrians are the alpha position to explore a city. The foot is the best interface."--Mitchell Joachim on Burning Down the House

"Infrastructure is not celebrated enough in the United States."--Melanie Fessel on Burning Down the House

http://www.heritageradionetwork.com/episodes/2186-Burning-Down-the-House-Episode-86-Urban-Design-Transportation-Architecture

Terreform ONE in Metropolis Magazine

2011-12-05T12:19:00.001-05:00

Collaborations Welcome:

Two thriving design collectives—housed in a nondescript building
in Brooklyn—may provide a model for a new way of working.

http://www.metropolismag.com/story/20111115/collaborations-welcome

Motherboard TV: Upgrade: The Living House | Motherboard

2011-11-22T17:17:00.000-05:00

Motherboard TV: Upgrade: The Living House | Motherboard

Terreform 1st Place Winners in Vienna

2011-11-22T12:04:00.001-05:00

Terreform in the press: Die Presse, Austria
"SocialDesign: Eine bessere Welt auf Wien-Besuch"

Nov. 12, 2011, Norbert Philipp and Karin Schuh (DiePresse)
Together with the Museum of Arts and Design, NYC and the Austrian Cultural Forum, NYC, the University of Applied Arts launched the competition Design for the Real World REDUX in Spring 2011.

Winning project Brooklyn Urbaneering 2110.

Mitchell Joachim, Maria Aiolova, Melanie Fessel and Adrian De Silva:

collaborators: Dan O’Connor, Celina Yee, Alpna Gupta, Sishir Varghese, Aaron Lim, Greg Mulholland, Derek Ziemer, Thilani Rajarathna, John Nelson, Natalie DeLuca.

E-Waste Bot for Cities

2011-10-14T14:51:00.003-05:00

Terreform ONE at Tallinn Architecture Biennale

2011-09-20T14:41:00.003-05:00

Maria Aiolova was invited to present Terreform ONE's work at the First International Tallinn Architecture Biennale (TAB) that took place September 8th – 11th in the Estonian capital. TAB’s main theme was landscape urbanism and the relationships between the fields of architecture, landscape architecture and urbanism. TAB comprises of multiple types of events: exhibitions, vision competition, symposium, lectures, discussions, workshops and guided tours in various parts of Tallinn. Invited guests included architects and related professionals from Estonia, United States, United Kingdom, France, Denmark, Sweden and Finland.For more information go to http://www.tab.ee/

A Terreformed Summer

2011-09-01T10:15:00.002-05:00

Last week at the Phaidon Bookstore in Soho, White Box Gallery held a benefit for their new sustainable art garden by organizing a panel discussion called “Sustainable Work Lab: new projects in art, architecture and urban design.” Ali Hossaini moderated the discussion between landscape designer Frances Levine, architect David Turnbull, and urban designer Maria Aiolova.
by Tom Stoelker

see more at Architect's Newspaper A/N Blog

The Optimist

2011-08-16T14:19:00.005-05:00

Maria Aiolova on the cover of WIT Magazine.

The Optimist

One way to ensure a better future for our planet? Give people something to look forward to.

2011-08-09T17:45:00.002-05:00

ONE Prize 2011 Winners Announced!

Jury Session: Roberta Weisbrod, Charles McKinney, Matthias Hollwich, Maria Aiolova, Amanda Burden, Bjarke Ingels,

Wellington Chen and Helena Durst. (from left to right)

Terreform ONE is proud to announce the finalists of:

Water as the 6th Borough:

Open International Design Competition to Envision the Sixth Borough of New York City

Urban Mobility: Terreform on Current TV

2011-07-26T17:38:00.000-05:00

Terreform Company Profile in Google Think Quarterly

2011-07-25T14:55:00.003-05:00

Innovation Spaces Terreform ONE is a non-profit design group that promotes green design in cities. It is based in Brooklyn, New York. At Terreform ONE we need ‘messy’ spaces to create a massive outpouring of projects and models. We have a collection of materials and artifacts found throughout the city of New York that add to the environment. These seemingly random objects are essential to helping us formulate complex morphologies into tangible suppositions. Design is seeing new qualities in everyday objects. We surround ourselves with these seemingly random items to be inspired just so. Our working studio is similar to the toymaker’s shop in Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner – a physical narrative of possibilities ready to be animated. -- Mitchell Joachim, Co-founder
by Holly Finn and Matt Bochensk, Google Think Quarterly

Terreform at The Economist; The Outlook for Growth

2011-03-18T15:12:00.005-05:00

Mitchell Joachim at the Economist

http://ideas.economist.com/presentation/outlook-growth

Future Shock: Escape the Urban Jungle

2011-02-09T13:12:00.000-05:00

Published Feb. 08: designbuild-network.com

"The UN forecasts that growing urban populations will place unprecedented strain on the infrastructure of our cities. Mitchell Joachim and Jürgen Mayer talk to Rod James about the relationship between cities and their inhabitants and the need for a radical reimagining of the urban landscape."

"Forceful views such as this make Joachim, co-founder of urban design group Terreform ONE, not only one of the most influential thinkers in his field but also a journalist's dream. An associate professor at NYU and senior fellow of the TED organization, Joachim has done more than anyone to highlight the need for a radical rethink of the way architects and urban planners approach their trade. This desire for change is motivated by a demographic force that is becoming too strong to ignore."

Future Shock: Escape the Urban Jungle

Terreform in The Huffington Post

2011-02-01T10:59:00.004-05:00

Mitchell Joachim Of Terreform ONE Imagines A Zero-Impact New York 100 Years From Now

by Damiano Beltrami, The Huffington Post:

Architect and urban designer Mitchell Joachim hates the idea of a lower-pollution New York a hundred years from now. He envisions a city that actually eliminates pollution. "I want a city that cleans up the impact of the last hundred and fifty years of industrial waste. It has to have a positive impact," said Joachim, pacing up and down his studio in the Metropolitan Exchange building on Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn. At a time when most progressive urban designers try to make cities greener, this co-founder of the nonprofit design group Terreform ONE and his team are on a crusade to radically change the notion of how cities like New York will function in a hundred years. Only completely flipping ideas about housing, transportation, and recreation spaces can city planners project a revolutionary urban habitat, according to Joachim and his crew.

ONE Prize 2011: Water as the 6th Borough in NYC

2011-01-27T15:24:00.002-05:00

Open International Design Competition to Envision the Sixth Borough of New York City:
The ONE PRIZE committee invites the most talented and imaginative architects, landscape architects, urban designers, planners, engineers, scientists, entrepreneurs, economists, artists, students, and individuals to propose ideas for the NYC Blue Network and The World’s Largest Clean Tech Expo in 2014.

These propositions must include; expanding waterborne transportation, linking the five boroughs with transit hubs, incorporating ferries, water taxis, bike shares, electric car-shares, electric shuttle buses, providing in-water recreation, educational events, cultural activities, pavilion halls, and climate resilience.
visit: www.oneprize.org

Terreform ONE in Topos 73

2011-01-12T16:15:00.001-05:00

Urbaneering Brooklyn NY 2110 - The Sci-Fi-Based Solution to Climate Change

An intensified version of an autarchic Brroklyn supplies all vital needs fpr its population. Dilapidated structures are replaced with vertical agriculture and housing merged with infrastructure. Visionary operations are not just about a comprehensive model of tomorrow's city, but an initial platform for discourse.. Author: Joachim, Mitchell

Terreform ONE in New York Times

2011-01-11T17:48:00.006-05:00

On Flatbush Avenue, Seven Stories Chock-Full of Ideas, by Jed Lipinski, Photos Benjamin Norman Published NYTimes: January 11, 2011.

"Mitchell Joachim, an ecological architect and one of three TED fellows (for technology, entertainment and design)on the floor, likens the Metropolitan Exchange to a modern-day version of Bauhaus, the German design school. “People here have enormous credentials and potential to succeed,” Mr. Joachim said. “Plus the rent is ridiculously cheap.” Mr. Joachim’s nonprofit design collective, Terreform One, promotes green initiatives in cities. Its conceptual projects are on display, including One-Day Tower, a model of a 53-story building built from all the trash produced by New York City in 24 hours."

Exhibition at Proteus Gowanus in Brooklyn NY

2011-01-11T17:00:00.000-05:00

Proteus Gowanus presents the opening reception of the 2nd Paradise exhibition,

featuring the work of 15 artists, designers and architects.

Some of these works examine the inward aspect of Paradise,

evoking states of happiness, exaltation or -- less heavenly --

the struggle to achieve perfect inner harmony.

Others have turned toward the future, imagining urban utopias,

culinary perfection and even the rendering of heaven itself.

Contributors to Paradise 2

Diane Bertolo
Micheline Gingras
Marcia Hillis
Leslie Kerby
Peter Ketcham
Tom Klinkowstein
Patricia McDonough
Lisanne McTernan
Eva Melas
Joseph Motroni
Adine Sagalyn
Erik Schurink
Theo Stewart Stand
Terreform One
Kit Warren

Digital Art at Google; Rachel Armstrong & Mitchell Joachim

2011-01-05T11:14:00.000-05:00

A talk on Living Materials and Architecture from Rachel Armstrong & Mitchell Joachim, Terreform ONE at the Google building in New York.

see YouTube

Detail Magazine on Terreform ONE

2010-11-19T20:01:00.002-05:00

A metropolis is reinvented , Mitchell Joachim and Maria Aiolova, Terreform ONE, Detail magazine

Profile for World Architects

2010-10-19T11:22:00.002-05:00

New York Architects and World Architects
Please visit our profile for Terreform ONE + Terrefuge:
http://newyork-architects.com/terreform-one-terrefuge/

American Society of Landscape Architects 2010 Expo in DC

2010-09-12T05:10:00.005-05:00

Lecture - Mowing to Growing: Rethinking the American Lawn
Featured Speakers: Maria Aiolova, LEED AP, and Mitchell Joachim, Terreform ONE
http://www.asla.org/2010meeting/edSessionsSun1.html

Imaginarium exhibition in Berlin w/ Terreform 1

2010-09-02T12:07:00.001-05:00

Studio Lukas Feireiss and Tomorrow's Thoughts Today with Luis Berríos-Negrón
cordially invite you to the IMAGINARIUM.
– Thursday, 02. September 2010, 19:00 –

2 A+P/A, AMID (Cero9), Rachel Armstrong, Tuur van Balen, Christoph DM Barlieb, Philip Beesley, Friedrich von Borries, Vincent Callebaut, Revital Cohen Oliver Croy and Oliver Elser, Justine Cooper, Ecosistema urbano, Eric Ellingsen, Love Enqvist, finsterwalderarchitekten, Vincent Fournier, Lynn Fox, Terunobu Fujimori, Thomas Grünfeld, Ilkka Halso, Husos with Francisco Amaro, Theo Jansen, Christian Kerrigan, Greg Lynn, Ton Matton, Jürgen Mayer H., Lucy McRae, Achim Menges, Nomadisch Grün, Anton Markus Pasing, Phillipe Rahm, Francois Roche, Christiane Sauer, Terreform 1, The Center for Land Use Interpretation, The Why Factory, Triptyque, Mas Yendo, Liam Young.

The Imaginarium is part of the exhibition 'Examples to Follow! Expeditions in Aesthetics and Sustainability' curated by Adrienne Goehler.

September 3 - October 10, 2010; Tue - Sun 12 -8 pm, Thu 12 -10 pm, closed on Mondays
Uferhallen, Uferstrasse 8-11, 13357 Berlin-Wedding, www.z-n-e.info

Terreform ONE in Prague Post

2010-08-26T17:14:00.004-05:00

Viewing the present through the future, by Caroline Korsawe

DOX exhibition is part of an international art trend that is looking ahead

"Joachim embraces the future by specializing in dreaming up environmentally sustainable cities. He is part of Terreform ONE, a nonprofit group specializing in such themes."

"With the majority of the world's population now living in cities, Joachim believes it is important to understand the consequences human civilization has on the world's ecosystems. He designed a future model of Brooklyn for the DOX exhibition."
http://www.praguepost.com/tempo/5484-viewing-the-present-through-the-future.html

TerreFarm school successfully completed for 2010

2010-08-03T16:19:00.009-05:00

Maria Aiolova, Mitchell Joachim, Christian Hubert and TAs: Marco Castro, Brian Holland
Participants: Orlando C. Quarless, Sara Newey, Tyler Madden, Vaclav Malek, Nancy Kim, Anthony Stahl, izabela karczmarczyk, William Q. Smith, Eva Nemcova, Annabelle Hernandez, Hazem Ahmed, Rebekka Hennig, Alex Sammet, Joanna Pierchala, Annette Williamson, Jennifer Birkeland, Vicki Karlan, Daryl Round, Anne Paillard, Yen Trinh , Tatsui Yuki, Marcus Owens, Monica Hernandez, Lee Youngwhan, Lee Heekyoung, Shim Hoonyong, Kim Minjoo, Choi Songhee, Park Won, Marco Antonio, Castro Cosio

Urbaneering Brooklyn, NY 2110

2010-07-17T17:44:00.005-05:00

DOX - Center of Contemporary Art, Prague

THE FUTURE OF THE FUTURE - Terreform ONE; Mitchell Joachim, Maria Aiolova, Melanie Fessel, Dan O’Connor, Celina Yee, Alpna Gupta, Sishir Varghese, Aaron Lim, Greg Mulholland, Derek Ziemer, Thilani Rajarathna, John Nelson, Natalie DeLuca

Urbaneering - Our primary assertion for this future city in Brooklyn is that all necessities are provided inside its accessible physical borders. We have designed an intensified version of Brooklyn that supplies all vital needs for its population. In this city, food, water, air, energy, waste, mobility, and shelter are radically restructured to support life in every form. The strategy includes the replacement of dilapidated structures with vertical agriculture and housing merged with infrastructure. Former streets become snaking arteries of livable spaces embedded with; renewable energy sources, soft cushion based vehicles for mobility, and productive green rooms. The plan uses the former street grid as the foundation for new networks. By reengineering the obsolete streets, we can install radically robust and ecologically active pathways. These operations are not just about a comprehensive model of tomorrow’s city, but an initial platform for discourse. We think the future will necessitate marvelous dwellings coupled with a massive cyclical resource net. The future will happen, how we get there is dependent upon our planned preparation and egalitarian feedback.

Terreform ONE in the Observer

2010-07-05T10:07:00.004-05:00

Is this the sustainable city of the future?

Sustainable cities by Rowan Moore. This article appeared on p21 of the The New Review section of the Observer on Sunday 4 July 2010.

TED Talks: Mitchell Joachim

2010-07-02T12:38:00.002-05:00

Mitchell Joachim: Don't build your home, grow it! | Video on TED.com

Surface Magazine: Transport Issue

2010-06-27T20:47:00.001-05:00

"Road Map To Tomorrow," cover story with Yves Behar - fuseproject, Mike Simonian - Mike & Maaike, and Mitchell Joachim - Terreform ONE, interview by Tim McKeough, Surface Magazine, #83, July/Aug. 2010, pp. 40-45. Special Thank You: Dan Rubinstein.

Popular Science: Mitchell Joachim

2010-06-12T23:10:00.003-05:00

Popular Science magazine cover story: Future of The Environment, Mitchell Joachim, The Urban Remodeler, by John Bradley, pp. cover, 7, 46-47, July 2010.

Mitchell Joachim's Eco-City by Nick Kaloterakis

Ecological Urbanism book published

2010-06-11T14:55:00.008-05:00

“Envisioning Ecological Cities,” by Mitchell Joachim in Ecological Urbanism, Mohsen Mostafavi and Gareth Doherty (ed.), Harvard University GSD, Lars Muller Publishers, 2010.

Zumtobel Group Award for Sustainability Winners

2010-03-04T11:28:00.010-05:00

Terreform ONE wins the Zumtobel Group Award

Co-Founders Mitchell Joachim and Maria Aiolova awarded EUR 60,000

At a meeting at Roden Crater, Arizona (USA) in February, an international jury selected this year's winners of the Zumtobel Group Award for Sustainability and Humanity in the Built Environment. The award in the "Research & Initiative" category went to the non-profit design group Terreform ONE, jointly founded by Mitchell Joachim and Maria Aiolova, for the research project "New York City Resource & Mobility", a visionary plan for New York City that converts waste to buildings and reinvents the city transit system.

The work for this on-going urban project is fundamentally based on the activist notions of self-reliance in the profound writings of Henry David Thoreau, Bill Mollison, Buckminster Fuller, and William Mcdonough.

"This project is a rich source of interesting ideas of real substance. The research team is not afraid to think in whole new directions and presents a range of visionary potential approaches that are already acting as catalysts in the urban development debate." - JURY

The winners were selected by interdisciplinary and international jury of leading architects from different parts of the world, an engineer, a representative of the UN, and the CEO of the Zumtobel Group, including:

Stefan Behnisch, (Chairman) Architect / Behnisch Architects, Stuttgart (Germany)

Yung Ho Chang, Architect, Head of Department of Architecture / Massachusetts Institute of

Technology, Cambridge (USA)

Brian Cody, Engineer, Chair of the Institute for Buildings and Energy, Graz University of Technology

(Austria)

Colin Fournier, Architect / University College London (UK)

Andreas Ludwig, CEO Zumtobel Group, Dornbirn (Austria)

Enrique Norten, Architect / TEN Arquitectos, Mexico City and New York (Mexico, USA)

Anna Tibaijuka, General and Executive Director / UN Habitat, Nairobi (Kenya)

“I am delighted that, in their selection this year, the jury have sent out a clear signal that smaller projects which adopt innovative approaches can also prove an important source of inspiration. We need to look beyond our current needs and see the challenges of the future in their full context, as is reflected in the winning project in the "Research & Innovation" category," explained Zumtobel Group CEO and jury member Andreas Ludwig.

The winner in the category “Built Environment” was HARMONIA 57 by Triptyque. In the category "Research & Initiative", honorable mentions went to a rural student project at the University of Talca in Chile; a cross-border exchange programme and symposium "Political Equator II" (Estudio Teddy Cruz) involving the USA and Mexico; a highly poetical idea for an office and studio building in Columbia (Husos Architects); and a master plan for a wind park in the North Sea (Office for Metropolitan Architecture) that aims to meet the entire electricity needs of the Netherlands.

Terreform ONE review in Toronto Star

2010-01-27T22:37:00.003-05:00

A meat home on the renewable range
by Christopher Hume
Sat. Jan. 23, 2010, Toronto Star

"Joachim, his partner architect Maria Aiolova, and the firm he co-founded, Terreform One, are dedicated to the proposition that being sustainable is not enough. It's time, they say, for North Americans to start giving back to the environment."
"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

One Prize Design Competition

2009-11-20T20:18:00.004-05:00

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

MEx: A Design Cooperative Grows in Brooklyn

2009-10-11T07:52:00.007-05:00

Architectural Record: archrecord2 Oct. 2009.
By Murrye Bernard
Together, Al Atarra and Interboro Partners established The Metropolitan Exchange (MEx), “an architecture, urban planning, and research cooperative” with the goal that members would “collaborate on architecture and planning projects, pursue development opportunities, and sponsor lectures, film screenings, and exhibitions.”
Word spread to friends and colleagues about the affordable studio space, attracting other emerging sole practitioners and small partnerships such as Decker Yeadon, MAN Architecture, Kaja Kuhl, and slo.vis, who find the space a much more productive environment than their living rooms. Aside from traditional architectural practices, other MEx tenants include Patten Studio, which provides design technology for interactive media; Terreform1, a non-profit philanthropic design collaborate; and Meredith TenHoor, who researches and writes on contemporary urbanism and politics.
http://archrecord.construction.com/archrecord2/work/0910/slide_23.asp

Reshaping Cities on CNBC

2009-10-06T22:19:00.002-05:00

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 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#

Design Jazz at Pratt Manhattan Gallery

2009-09-29T17:51:00.006-05:00

Design Jazz: Improvisations on the Urban Street
Inspired by the newly created department of Academic Sustainability at Pratt Institute, this exhibition in two parts will document both theoretical and creative approaches to the design of urban streets by invited guests Amy Guggenheim, artist, writer and professor, Pratt Institute; Mitchell Joachim, architect, designer and co-founder Terreform One; and Leon Reid IV, street artist, teacher, and Pratt alumnus, as well as document the process of a local realized project.
Design and Sustainability
Pratt Manhattan Gallery September 25 - November 7, 2009
Public reception Friday, October 9, 6–8 pm 144 West 14th Street New York, NY
http://www.terreform.org/pratt.html

Carnegie Mellon's Miller Gallery: Terreform 1

2009-08-21T17:24:00.006-05:00

29 Chains to the Moon
Artists' Schemes for a Fantastic Future
Guest curated by Andrea Grover
Aug. 28 - Dec. 6, 2009
Artists: Open_Sailing, Stephanie Smith, Mitchell Joachim/ Terreform ONE
http://millergallery.cfa.cmu.edu/

TerreFarm: Urban Design + Grow

2009-08-21T12:39:00.009-05:00

We provide a unique opportunity for students to learn from established professionals in an experimental design/grow urban farm. The Interaction of students, builders, and architects is encouraged by the intense environment of The Metropolitan Exchange (MEx), located in downtown Brooklyn.
see more at
TerreFarm :
http://terrefarm.blogspot.com/

New Executive Director: Eliot Hodges

2009-08-04T12:12:00.002-05:00

Eliot Hodges earned his BA from Harvard College and his MBA from the Kellogg School of Management. He served as a project manager for UN- and US-funded reconstruction programs in Afghanistan from 2004-2006. These programs included included housing for Afghan returnees as well as clinic and school construction in Northern Afghanistan. In 2006, he headed a program that provided all logistical and operational support to the European Union Election Observation Mission to Afghan parliamentary and provincial elections. In 2007, he worked in Congress on Senator Chuck Hagel's foreign policy team.
http://www.terreform.org/people_eh.html

Colbert Report: Mitchell Joachim

2009-05-08T03:31:00.001-05:00

The Colbert Report

Mon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c

Mitchell Joachim

colbertnation.com

Colbert Report Full Episodes

Political Humor

Gay Marriage

Ecological Urbanism at Harvard GSD Podcast

2009-05-05T11:23:00.005-05:00

Panel 1: Productive Urban Environments
Urbanism carries a carbon footprint well beyond the physical limits of the city. Future cities will need to aspire to be carbon negative, including off-setting the city’s embodied energy. What is the potential for cities to increase the production of energy, food and good public health?

Moderator: Margaret Crawford, Harvard Graduate School of Design

Speakers:
Michelle Addington, Yale School of Architecture
Dorothée Imbert, Harvard Graduate School of Design
Mitchell Joachim, Columbia University
Nina-Marie Lister, pLandform and Ryerson University
http://ecologicalurbanism.gsd.harvard.edu/2009/01/08/panel-1-productive-urban-environments/

Iron Designer

2009-04-26T15:09:00.008-05:00

This past Thursday, April 23, four teams made up of third-year Master’s of Architecture students from Columbia GSAPP, Parsons The New School, Pratt Institute, and City College of New York (CCNY - winners) competed against each other in an hour-long design competition to propose a sustainable design solution for the DUMBO archway. After several years of being used as a storage facility, the archway has re-opened for public use. The competition challenged the students to create a link between the archway and the adjacent lot in light of it’s re-birth as a public space. The event took place in Raumlabor’s Spacebuster, an inflatable and mobile dome which has been hosting events around New York City this past week.

Jurors include: Joseph Grima (Storefront for Art and Architecture), Raumlabor, Olivia Chen (Inhabitat), Kate Kerrigan (Dumbo Improvement District), Richard Plunz, Ben Prosky and Sarah Williams (Columbia GSAPP), Meredith Tenhoor and Deb Johnson (Pratt Institute), Joel Towers (Parsons), Rafael Magrou (architecture critic, Paris), Amale Andraos and Dan Wood (workAC), Victoria Marshall (Till Design), William Menking (The Architect's Newspaper).

Iron Designer is only part of a larger scheme of events that are part of ECOGRAM: The Sustainability Question. ECOGRAM is a series of events initiated at the Columbia GSAPP by Mitchell Joachim, Ph.D. and Ioanna Theocharopoulou, Ph.D., to examine the question of sustainability in architecture and architectural education. The first conference “Ecogram: The Sustainability Question” took place in October 2008. A second large-scale conference is planned for October 2009.
Studio- X
Storefront for Art and Architecture
Inhabitat
ECOGRAM

The More the Merrier: An Open Letter for Terreforming

2009-04-22T17:05:00.000-05:00

More non-profit charities are a good thing.
More community schools are a good thing.
More Habitat for Humanity operations are a good thing.

We are Terreform ONE (Open Network Ecology). We are a 501(c)(3) charitable organization that activates ecological principles in the urban realm. We formed the group to serve the public and created a community laboratory in Downtown Brooklyn. We invite you to please join us in assembling more Terreform organizations.

More non-profit design groups are a good thing.
Happy Earth Day!

Mitchell Joachim in Rolling Stone Magazine

2009-03-31T00:30:00.006-05:00

"The RS 100: Agents of Change," Rolling Stone, p.63, April 2, 2009.

Mitchell Joachim; The visionary in urban planning sees stackable cars and houses in trees.
WHAT HE'S CHANGING: In a sedate field, Joachim is pushing for a radical green rethink of the American city in the 21st century. An architect and urban planner at Brooklyn's nonprofit Terreform 1, Joachim wants to open up cluttered streets by creating a soft, stackable City Car that would be shared like a Zipcar.
NEXT MOVE: Exploring inter-skyscraper blimp ferries and weaving energy-efficient houses into existing trees.
KEY QUOTE: "I give a voice for people and things that can't necessarily speak for themselves, like trees and wildlife. Or the residents of Harlem." YES Harlem speaks, but not always by way of detailed urban design drawings.

http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/26754176/the_rs_100_agents_of_change/3

Michael Sorkin Disclaimer

2009-03-31T00:21:00.090-05:00

Disclaimer related to Michael Sorkin and Terreform Inc.
For years Sorkin, a professional critic, has distributed inaccurate and damaging claims about our organization Terreform ONE.
The US Patent and Trademark Office attorney has rejected Michael Sorkin's claims to use our trademark in three consecutive cases and appeals. The USPTO attorney on Dec. 15, 2010 has rendered a FINAL decision and rejected Sorkin. Sorkin cannot legally use our mark and anyone who does without legal authorization is confusing and deceiving the public. see: USPTO Office Action

UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE (USPTO)
"In the first Office action the examining attorney refused registration of applicant’s (Sorkin) proposed mark based upon a finding of a likelihood of confusion under Trademark Act Section 2(d) with respect to U.S. Registration No. 3752902."
"In its response applicant (Sorkin) submits arguments against the examining attorney’s Trademark Act Section 2(d) likelihood of confusion refusal with respect to U.S. Registration No. 3752902. The examining attorney has carefully considered applicant’s (Sorkin) arguments and does not find them persuasive. Accordingly, the examining attorney continues and maintains said refusal and now makes it FINAL."
"Trademark Act Section 2(d) bars registration of an applied-for mark that so resembles a registered mark that it is likely that a potential consumer would be confused or mistaken or deceived as to the source of the goods and/or services of the applicant and registrant."

We lawfully own the trademark to the name (view our USPTO registration). Any unauthorized use of our Terreform mark or similar derivation will deceive and confuse the public.
Terreform ONE is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization: Mitchell Joachim, Maria Aiolova, Melanie Fessel, Dan O'Connor, Oliver Medvedik
http://www.terreform.org/Terreform_1_Trademark.pdf

For further information contact:
Christopher J. Glancy, Partner
White & Case LLP
1155 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10036
T: + 1 212 819 8307

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Sorkin

2009-03-21T09:18:00.005-05:00

Mimi Zeiger, "Urban Renewal," Architect, March 1st, 2009.

Urban Renewal The Obama stimulus plan promises billions to transform the American city. A new generation of urban designers is ready to spend it.

cityLAB, Los Angeles The culture and politics of urban space.
Interboro Partners, Brooklyn, N.Y. Research. Document. Analyze. Repeat.
Fletcher Studio, San Francisco Harvesting the power of landscape to shape cities.
Terreform ONE (Open Network Ecology), Brooklyn, N.Y. Dreams to provoke realities.

Cover Image: Rapid Re(f)use by Terreform 1, Mitchell Joachim, Emily Johnson, Maria Aiolova, Melanie Fessel, Zachary Aders, Webb Allen, Niloufar Karimzadegan.

http://www.architectmagazine.com/urban-development/terreform-one-brooklyn.aspx

Harvard GSD Ecological Urbanism Conference

2009-02-21T20:27:00.003-05:00

Mitchell Joachim, Terreform 1, is speaking at
ECOLOGICAL URBANISM: Alternative and Sustainable Cities of the Future Conference
Harvard University Graduate School of Design
April 3 - 5, 2009
http://ecologicalurbanism.gsd.harvard.edu/

Future North at Superlight MOCA

2009-02-07T13:23:00.007-05:00

MOCA's 'Superlight' exhibit touches on cultural concerns in mesmerizing ways
by Steven Litt / Plain Dealer Art Critic + http://www.cleveland.com/

Art shows laden with political content were commonplace during the culture wars of the 1990s, a time when artists delighted in poking a finger in every eye.
The Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland was a proud participant in the trend, organizing exhibitions on controversial artistic uses of the American flag and the Christian cross.
MOCA is back in the game, but in a softer, more subtle way.
"Superlight," the newest major exhibition at the museum, shows how artists around the country are infusing their work with political, social and cultural content while exploring digital media, mechanical constructions and installations.
The artists in "Superlight" very definitely want to send strong messages, but they don't bang you over the head. They evoke a mesmerizing mood of relaxed awareness, which gets their points across in ways more haunting and effective than a visual harangue.
Curated for MOCA by Steve Dietz, artistic director of last summer's 01SJ Biennial, a global festival of "art on the edge" in San Jose, Calif., the exhibition sets a viewer adrift in a technological amusement park for the mind.
A few steps farther on, viewers encounter installations by Jane Marsching, an assistant professor at the Massachusetts College of Art, who treats global warming in a dreamy, languorous way.
Her 2008 video "Future North," co-produced with Mitchell Joachim of the New York architecture firm Terreform, envisions how cities from New York to Hong Kong could detach themselves from their moorings and float north to a warmed-up North Pole, destined to become hot real estate.
Marsching's "Rising North" considers global climate change by depicting future increases in Arctic temperatures during the next century through a series of colors projected on a gallery wall. The glowing fields of color are accompanied by a recording of an opera singer singing the words from news reports about rising temperatures and sea levels. The effect is oddly tranquil, suggesting, perhaps, how easily dire forecasts can have a numbing effect.
http://www.cleveland.com/arts/index.ssf/2009/02/mocas_superlight_exhibit_touch.html

The 4th NORDIC URBAN DESIGN CONFERENCE

2009-01-26T10:56:00.004-05:00

The 4th NUDC
20th February 2009, Grieghallen - Bergen

NEW DIRECTIONS IN
SUSTAINABLE DESIGN

Professor // Dr. Matthew Carmona //BARTLETT UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF LONDON // united kingdom
Co-founder // Dr. Mitchell Joachim //TERREFORM ONE // united states of america
Co-founder // Cameron Sinclair //ARCHITECTURE FOR HUMANITY // united states of america
Vice. President //Jason Prior //EDAW // united kingdom
President // Erik R Kuhne //ERIK R KUHNE & ASSOCIATES // united kingdom
Associate // Richard Hollington //OFFICE FOR METROPOLITAN ARCHITECTURE (OMA) // netherlands
Director // Jonathan Smales //BEYOND GREEN // united kingdom

Conference host: Rob Cowan, Dir. Urban Design Skills

http://www.nuda.no/

// INTRODUCTION // There is a need to stage a guide for global planning which involves new sustained environmental directions. While urban designers and architects alone cannot solve the world’s environmental problems, they are responsible for designing the future cities, and therefore in a position to influence the promotion and pursuit of energy-efficient, socially-responsible buildings and public spaces. They are also in a position to influence the future cities through new paradigms of innovation; new thoughts; new perspectives; new methods and rural and urban strategies, where increased use of new technology is a crucial part of the sustainable planning strategies developed. The current urbanisation which attracts people in great numbers from rural areas and small towns raises issues such as prospects for work; housing possibilities; improved lifestyle and education. How does this rapid urbanisation effect the environment? How will rural areas cope with the increased emigration? Is urbanisation as an isolated entity the critical factor generating these environmental issues?
The green city; the inclusive city; the social city; the walkable city; the eco-city are concepts promoted by architects and planners in their work of designing future cities and pursuing environmental solutions while at the same time trying to include a conscious approach towards the social and human aspect of the new urban context. New city concepts claim to accommodate the rapid urbanisation with design strategies enabling the city as an organism to grow accordingly to the growth of population. Is there a real demand for such new cities being planned? Might it be that the real challenge lies in sustaining the existing city, and turning the focus towards rural areas with small towns, villages and communities making them more interesting and attractive to live in so that people don’t move from these places?
Current cities are challenged by future environmental problems escalated from matters such as higher urban density; constraint of land use; rapid urbanisation; increased car use; higher global mobility; higher energy use and an extended consumption of global and cultural resources. Highlighting the concept of the future cities includes discovering the reasons behind the potential environmental disaster. Are the environmental issues our cities are facing only related to what is described in the UN Environmental report? Or could it be a consequence of people’s advanced mobility and change of lifestyle over the past three decades? I.e. new cities adjacent to waterfronts will be major influence on economic growth and tourism, leading to increased consumption of natural resources and undesirable impacts on culturally important heritage sites.

Green Architecture Opening in Prague

2009-01-24T16:38:00.009-05:00

Photos: Dan O'Connor
Special Thanks: Dan Merta, Jaroslava Fragnera Gallery

Bioworks Institute Website Launched 2009

2008-12-31T19:49:00.004-05:00

Co-Founders: Oliver Medvedik, Ph.D. and Mitchell Joachim, Ph.D.
Bioworks Institute
An interdisciplinary endeavor that seeks to rethink biological art and design.
www.bioworks1.com

Photo: Tony Ryan

Fab Tree Hab in Huffington Post via Web Urbanist

2008-11-24T12:06:00.005-05:00

Web Urbanist has compiled a list of fantastic and visionary designs for "green" living. Thank You Nicholas Graham. Check out a sampling below:
HUFFINGTON POST and WEB URBANIST

WIRED: The 2008 Smart List - 15 People The Next President Should Listen To

2008-09-17T23:20:00.001-05:00

The 2008 Smart List: "Mitchell Joachim, Redesign Cities from Scratch"
by Tom Vanderbilt
Wired, 16.10, pp. 178-9. Oct. 2008.
Photo: Bruce Gilden, Illustration: Christoph Niemann
http://www.wired.com/politics/law/magazine/16-10/sl_joachim

In Vitro Meat Habitat

2008-08-27T11:39:00.007-05:00

This is an architectural proposal for the fabrication of 3D printed extruded pig cells to form real organic dwellings. It is intended to be a "victimless shelter", because no sentient being was harmed in the laboratory growth of the skin. We used sodium benzoate as a preservative to kill yeasts, bacteria and fungi. Other materials in the model matrix are; collagen powder, xanthan gum, mannitol, cochineal, sodium pyrophosphate, and recycled PET plastic scaffold.
As of now, the concept model consists of essentially very expensive fitted cured pork or articulated swine leather with an extensive shelf life. The actual scale of the non-perishable prototype is 11”x3”x7”.

Terreform 1: Mitchell Joachim, Eric Tan, Oliver Medvedik, Maria Aiolova

The Visual Rhetoric of Environmentalism at New Museum

2008-08-07T17:32:00.001-05:00

Panel: The Visual Rhetoric of Environmentalism
for the New Museum of Contemporary Art, "After Nature," exhibition.
As scientific consensus about global warming gains traction with the public, this panel explores how such knowledge—and the environmental strategies it prompts—should be expressed visually.

Panelists: Dr. Cameron Tonkinwise, Charles M. Blow, and Mitchell Joachim.
Moderated by Brian Sholis, editor of Artforum.com.

Saturday, August 16, at 3PM
New Museum,
235 Bowery, New York, NY.
http://www.newmuseum.org/events/220

CNN: Fab Tree Hab + Mushroom House + MATscape

2008-08-04T09:38:00.005-05:00

Just Imagine...what life will be like in 2020?
Home sweet... jellyfish!
Architects share their vision of what homes of the future will look like.
Fancy living in a home shaped like a mushroom or an edible tree house?
see our Mushroom House, Fab Tree Hab, and MATscape dwellings.
images by Mitchell Joachim
http://edition.cnn.com/
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/TECH/08/04/future.houses/index.html
Special Thanks to Lisa Botter

NextWorld premier episode Aug. 6th on Discovery Channel

2008-08-01T10:32:00.005-05:00

See our work at Terreform 1 and many others in the premier episode of NEXTWORLD. This 14 hour documentary series on the Discovery Channel premieres Wednesday, August 6th at 8pm.After this week, the series will air every Wednesday at the same time for the following 13 weeks.
NEXTWORLD explores some of the truly amazing technologies, science, ideas and products that we will encounter over the next 20 years. What was learned doing this show has made us wonderfully optimistic about our future. So much is possible: we will grow new brain cells and end Alzheimer's, travel to Mars, drive morphing cars, watch stunningly real holographic actors on Broadway, create energy to power cities using our footsteps, and routinely live beyond a century.
http://dsc.discovery.com/tv/next-world/next-world.html
Special Thanks: Rob Cohen -Executive Producer NextWorld, Dena Goldstein, and Betty Chu.

New Design Researcher: Eric Tan

2008-06-30T17:32:00.005-05:00

Eric is a student still entering his final year of architecture at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY. Currently, he is researching and developing a proposal for the fabrication and genetic manipulation of a flesh based architecture - combining inVitro processes and tissue engineering with Cad/Cam prototyping. He is excited in utilizing this research as a tool to generate not only discourse but to aid in its realization.

Fab Tree Hab at MoMA, July 20-Oct 20

2008-06-25T18:45:00.003-05:00

Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling
July 20th – October 20th, 2008.
The Museum of Modern Art Exhibition Gallery, sixth floor
Fab Tree Hab
Video installation, 2003-2008.
Mitchell Joachim, Terreform 1
Lara Greden, Javier Arbona.

QuickTime Movie: Fab Tree Hab

Special Thanks: Joey Forsyte, Velocity Filmworks, Barry Bergdoll, Peter Christensen, Graham Murdoch, Edward Ward.

Mike Silver lecture w/ LaN globallocale

2008-06-19T18:00:00.006-05:00

Mike Silver
http://futurefeeder.com/
5PM FRI. JULY 11th
lecture at
MEx/ Terreform
Michael Silver Mike Silver holds a masters in building design from Columbia University, and is a leFevre ‘29 research fellow for the Knowlton School of Architecture in Columbus, Ohio, a Sanders Fellow at the University of Michigan, former director of digital media at the Yale School of Architecture and a studio instructor at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, and faculty member at Pratt Institute. He is also the author of numerous books and articles including Pamphlet Architecture 19: Reading, Drawing, Building (Princeton Architectural Press, 1996) and IS) Mapping in the Age of Digital Media (March/April 2003). He currently directs a multidisciplinary design laboratory based in New York. Current work explores technologies such as UDAR, CFD (computational fluid dynamics) simulation, computer programming (Automason Ver 1.0) and a variety of new robotic fabrication tools including numerically controlled wire-EDM and digital foam shaping.

Thank You: Monika Wittig
LaN globallocale
http://www.livearchitecture.net/

Welcome Dan O’Connor

2008-06-10T19:02:00.002-05:00

New Partner at Terreform 1:
Dan O’Connor received his Master of Fine Art degree in Photography from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. He received his BFA in Photography from SUNY College at Buffalo. He was an Artist in Residence at the Burren College of Art in the Spring of 2004. Currently he is teaching photography at the New England Institute of Art in Boston.
www.stickphoto.com

Terreform 1 at World Science Festival

2008-06-03T17:55:00.003-05:00

ABC News: How Will Cities of the Future Look?

Five People Who'll Make You Feel Good About the Future Wired Science from Wired.com

Future Cities and Festivals? - TierneyLab - Science - New York Times Blog

Future cities will be more like ecosystems that enrich society and the environment

Science Channel: World Science Festival: Not the Usual Doom and Gloom

Science/AAAS ScienceNOW: Future Cities

Spark: Ignite Your Life ¦ Weekends: World Science festival in NYC

Vertical farms and future cities Gristmill: The environmental news blog Grist

World Science Festival: Radically Green Future Cities Discoblog Discover Magazine

Ecotarium(s): North Pole

2008-04-10T21:05:00.012-05:00

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 Arctic 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
Architects: Makoto Okazaki, Maria Aiolova, Melanie Fessel
Photo Work: Dan O'Connor
Curators: Steve Dietz at SJMA and Denise Markonish at MASS MoCA

see movie: http://www.terreform.org/future_north
see images:http://www.archinode.com/Arch4float.html

Terreform at MASS MoCA

2008-03-13T10:49:00.001-05:00

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

Welcome Jair Laiter

2008-01-17T15:50:00.001-05:00

Jair was Born in Mexico City in 1971. Studied architecture at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco, and Urban Design at City College, NYC. Has worked in offices in Japan, and USA. His Mexico City based studio KL Arquitectos has won large competitions and completed buildings in various parts of Mexico.

Water this Segment! Fab Tree Hab

2007-10-30T13:49:00.000-05:00

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

2007-10-23T11:36:00.000-05:00

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

2007-10-16T16:06:00.000-05:00

The Human-Powered River Gym project
by Terreform: Mitchell & Douglas Joachim
is published within:
"Relax - Interiors for Human Wellness"
with Karim Rashid, Anneke Bokern, Joeri Bruyninckx, Tim Groen, Sarah MartÃn 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

Extreme tree houses: Fab Tree Hab

2007-09-30T14:24:00.000-05:00

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

2007-09-26T04:09:00.000-05:00

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/

Sabine Gittel: Research on Urbanism

2007-09-19T09:48:00.000-05:00

Sabine is from Germany. She received her diploma degree in Architecture at the University of Applied Sciences in Leipzig. At Terraform she is dealing with a city research project to emphasize her interest in urban topics.

Welcome: Melanie Fessel

2007-08-16T18:11:00.001-05:00

Meli just arrived from Germany and fell in love with New York.
She studies architecture at the Technical University of Berlin.

New Design Researchers: Ben Shepard & Patrick Collins

2007-08-01T09:20:00.000-05:00

Ben Shepard studies Philosophy and Visual Art at The University of Chicago. He's a founder of the Chicago-based experimental-culture collective Ex-Lab, and currently researches food systems, untapped desires and the possibility of socialism in the 21st century.

Patrick R. Collins was born in the farmlands of Iowa, one man's young dreams of becoming a cowboy popped as the realization that times were a-changing and a livlihood rounding up steer just wouldn't make it in this day and age. New York City's air quality was one area in which he could make a difference. He is producing an outline of resources which could help our city further reduce air pollution emissions.

New designer: Yu Ping Hsieh w/ Trudy Giordano

2007-06-26T09:43:00.001-05:00

Yu Ping Hsieh: Born and raised in Taiwan, family later immigrated to Canada. Completed his Bachelor's degree in Environmental Design from the University of Manitoba in 2007, and is planning to attend the M.Arch program at the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-ARC) in fall of 2007.

Soft Car at Inhabitat.com

2007-06-25T18:35:00.000-05:00

TERREFORM’S SOFT CAR
by Emily Pilloton
http://www.inhabitat.com/2007/06/14/terreforms-soft-car/

Terreform on CNET

2007-06-01T17:07:00.000-05:00

Tree house living, the next green thing?
http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9724481-7.html

Postopolis Talk on U Tube

2007-05-31T16:03:00.000-05:00

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

Terreform in Newsweek

2007-05-21T17:09:00.000-05:00

"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

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

2007-05-02T17:18:00.000-05:00

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. 5/29 thru 6/2, 2007.
http://storefrontnews.org/exhibitions/upcoming.html

NY Press: LES from SCRATCH

2007-04-19T10:07:00.000-05:00

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

Welcome Maria Aiolova to Terreform

2007-03-21T11:28:00.002-05:00

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. 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.

MIT Lecture: March 9: Mitchell Joachim

2007-03-05T18:36:00.000-05:00

Computation Group Lecture Series
Department of Architecture, MIT
Friday, March 9th, Room 3-133, 12:30
Please be there on time if you are attending

MITCHELL JOACHIM Ecotransology:
Ecology + Mobility + Space

SUNDANCE CHANNEL Fab Tree Hab

2007-02-21T13:25:00.000-05:00

FAB TREE HAB WILL BE FEATURED ON SUNDANCE CHANNEL’S ORIGINAL SERIES
“BIG IDEAS FOR A SMALL PLANET”™ ON TUESDAY, APRIL 24TH AT 9:00PM ET

“Big Ideas for a Small Planet,” is a documentary series presenting the forward-thinking designers, products and processes that are on the leading edge of a new green world. Each episode revolves around a different green theme as it spotlights a specific innovator or innovation that has the potential to transform our everyday lives. The individuals profiled range from scientists to fashion and product designers, entrepreneurs to first-time inventors. The series also features a cast of recurring expert commentators, including activists, scientists, writers, and environmental personalities who provide the big-picture context to each week’s stories. “Big Ideas for a Small Planet” is produced by Scout Productions (“Queer Eye for the Straight Guy” NBC/Bravo and The Fog of War).

In “Big Ideas for a Small Planet: Build,” visionary architect Michelle Kaufmann builds a Glidehouse, an ultra-sustainable modular prefab dream home, for a couple looking to enjoy life off the grid; architect Carlton Brown defies all odds and builds a low-income sustainable housing project in Harlem; and MIT genius Mitchell Joachim demonstrates his Fab Tree Hab living house made from intertwined trees, creating a spectacular living space of the future.

“Big Ideas for a Small Planet” airs as part of THE GREEN, a weekly primetime destination airing Tuesdays on Sundance Channel that focuses on environmental topics. With THE GREEN, Sundance Channel became the first television network in the United States to establish a major, regularly-scheduled programming destination dedicated entirely to the environment. THE GREEN reflects the current tipping point in public awareness about ecological issues and the trend towards environmentally sustainable approaches to modern living. The destination is designed to be both edifying and entertaining, with an emphasis on information, practical advice and community building. Presented by Robert Redford, the destination is hosted by award-winning journalist Simran Sethi and community advocate and MacArthur Fellow Majora Carter, two dynamic leaders who have distinguished themselves with revolutionary ideas in such areas as civic planning and global business practices. THE GREEN is presented by Lexus and Citi Smith Barney.

Under the creative direction of Robert Redford, Sundance Channel is the television destination for independent-minded viewers seeking something different. Bold, uncompromising and irreverent, Sundance Channel offers audiences a diverse and engaging selection of films, documentaries, and original programs, all unedited and commercial free. Launched in 1996, Sundance Channel is a venture of NBC Universal, Showtime Networks Inc. and Robert Redford. Sundance Channel operates independently of the non-profit Sundance Institute and the Sundance Film Festival, but shares the overall Sundance mission of encouraging artistic freedom of expression. Sundance Channel’s website address is www.sundancechannel.com.
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Shanghai Pudong District

2006-12-08T19:57:00.000-05:00

Sundance Channel Roundtable Discussion

2006-12-05T11:23:00.000-05:00

Panelists on December 15th 2006 at Terreform NY.

Lara Greden, Ph.D., is a consultant with The Weidt Group, specializing in energy modeling and risk analysis for sustainable building design, energy conservation, and renewable energy. She is an expert in hybrid ventilation and flexible design methodologies. She works with design teams and major manufacturers consulting on energy, flexibility, and cost decisions.Other research includes studies on market and regulatory mechanisms for encouraging development of sustainable housing in urban China. Design work includes her role as team member of the Fab Tree Hab design team (winner, Habitat for Humanity/SECCA design competition) and sustainable design work in Turkey, including renewable energy systems and passive building design. She was also a consultant at Arthur D. Little, Inc. (now Navigant Consulting, Inc.) on the topics of renewable energy and energy efficiency for the U.S. Department of Energy. Ms. Greden completed her Ph.D. in the Building Technology Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she was a National Science Foundation Fellow, MIT Presidential Fellow, and MIT Martin Fellow for Sustainability.

Oliver Medvedik earned his Ph.D. from Harvard Medical School in the Biomedical and Biological Sciences (B.B.S.) program. As part of his doctoral work he has used single-celled budding yeast as a genetic system to map pathways that underlie the processes of aging in more complex organisms, such as humans. Prior to arriving in Boston in 1999 for his doctoral studies, he has lived most of his life in New York City. He obtained his bachelor's degree in biology from HunterCollege, City University of New York, in 1998. Since graduating in 2006 from Harvard, he has worked as a consultant for Sirtris Pharmaceuticals, a biotechnology company specializing in the research and development of small-molecule therapeutics to treat age-onset diseases, such as diabetes. In his spare time he is working on a popular-science oriented book that seeks to explain the current science and technology of longevity research and the future treatments that will arise as a result of this work.

Yanni Alexander Loukissas is an architect and a researcher who studies the culture of computation in the building professions. His latest essay will appear in The Inner History of Devices, an edited volume by Sherry Turkle, Ph.D. Currently, Mr.Loukissas is a Presidential Fellow and a Ph.D. candidate in Design and Computation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. While at MIT, he has been a National Science Foundation Pre-doctoral Fellow, a member of the Initiative on Technology and Self, and a research assistant at the Media Lab's Center for Bits and Atoms. He is also a Visiting Professor of Sculpture at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and a design and technology consultant to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. He holds a Master of Science in Design and Computation from MIT and a Bachelor of Architecture from Cornell University. He has taught at both MIT and Cornell and has practiced architecture in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Greece. He currently resides in Cambridge, MA.

James Patten, Ph.D., creates interactive works in diverse media with themes including performance and social commentary. Patten has exhibited or performed in venues such as the Museum of Modern Art, the Transmediale festival in Berlin, the Museo Guggenheim Bilbao, the Museo d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, the Ars Electronica Center in Linz, Austria, the Instituto Tomie Othake in Sao Paulo, and the Art Interactive gallery in Cambridge, Ma. Patten's work has been recognized in several interational design competitions including the International Design Magazine's 2004 Annual Design Review, and the 2004 Industrial Design Excellence Awards. Patten holds a Ph.D. and an S.M. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a B.A. from the University of Virginia.

Anya Bokov, Adjunct Professor, Graduate Program Coordinator, Northeastern University, Senior Architect, City of Somerville, Mayor's Office SPCD. She received her Master in Architecture from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design and her Bachelor of Architecture from Syracuse University where she was a recipient of the Full Merit Scholarship. Anya travelled to United States from Moscow Russia to study at Syracuse University on a full merit based scholarhip. After graduating from Syracuse in 1998, Anya joined New York-based Polshek Partnership Architects and later Gluckman Mayner Architects. While at Harvard Design School she organized an urban design studio in Russia with Rodolfo Machado and curated two Harvard Design School exhibits in Moscow. In parallel she collaborated with Herzog & de Meuron and the Institute of Contemporary City in Basel, Switzerland on developing a thesis studio. After graduation she worked with Rem Koolhaas at the Office for Metropolitan Architecture on the Hermitage Museum addition in St Petersburg, Russia. Currently Anya Bokov is a senior architect and an urban designer at the Mayor's Office of Strategic Planning and Community Development at the City of Somerville and an adjunct professor at Northeastern University School of Architecture. At Somerville she has been working on projects such as the Brick Bottom urban design competition, Assembly Square and Green Line T Extension among others. At Northeastern she is coordinating the rapidly growing graduate architecture program and has been developing the new curriculum for courses such as Thesis Studio and Professional Practice. She is a member of the Board of Directors at the Boston Society of Architects, representing Northeastern University.

Frank Ruchala Jr. graduated with dual masters in urban planning andarchitecture from the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University. At the GSD, Frank won the school's prestigious Druker Traveling Fellowhip, for which he studied airport cities throughout the world. He was also awarded a Penny White Traveling Fellowship in 2002 to study Los Angeles' urban oil fields, research that eventually led to his architecture thesis on the subject which will be published by Actar next year. Frank is currently living in New York where he works in the urban design department of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill. He is responsible for work on Columbia University's proposed campus in West Harlem, a joint project between SOM and Renzo Piano Building Workshop. Before this, he worked at numerous design, planning and real estate development firms in Boston, San Francisco and New Jersey. He has taught studios at the Boston Architectural Center and the GSDs Career Discovery Program and his work has been published in Japan, Venezuela and the United States. Frank was part of a team that won the "Prop X: Inventing the next Los Angeles" competition, looking at ways to effectively deal with that city's ongoing housing crisis.

Richard Reames, Sculptor and Author
Opened Arborsmith Studios- A tree nursery/art studio 1993Authored How to Grow a Chair- 1995Directed community planting Williams Oregon- 1997Planted "Laughing happy tree park" in Joykoji Japan with John Gathright, the idea received "The Good Design Award" For ecological design 2000 Garden Creator S. F. Flower and Garden show- 2000Subject in hardbound large format book- Living Sculpture by Paul Cooper 2001Subject in hardbound large format book Eden on Their Minds by Starr Ockenga 2001
Speaker Master Gardeners State Convention in Alaska- 2001Workshop Deans's Nursery Ohio- 2002T. V. PBS “Tree Stories” “fantasy trees” 2002Speaker High Wycombe Collage of Furniture Design in England 2002World Expo Japan 2005 Arborsculpture coordinator for Growing Village pavilion. Authored Arborsculpture- Solutions for a Small Planet 2005Authored article for Compass Magazine- March/April 2006John C. Campbell School of Folk Arts, North Carolina, Instructor of Arborsculpture 2005 and 2006 Speaker Seattle Flower and Garden Show 2006Speaker University of Melbourne Australia 2006T. V. Home and Garden Channel "Off Beat America" segment 2006.

New York 2106 Project Images

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Visions of Manhattan: For the City, 100-Year Makeovers

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In Grand Central Terminal, History Channel design competitors presented New Yorks for 2106. Terreform’s included a ban on private cars.
Terreform won the honorary mention for best presentation.
November 4, 2006
New York Times
By ROBIN POGREBIN
Photo from left: Makoto Okazaki, Kent Hikida, Mitchell Joachim

Model Images

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Team Credits for the History Channel

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TEAM Terreform volunteers; Mitchell Joachim, Makoto Okazaki, Andrei Vovk, Kent Hikida, Serdar Omer, Noura Al Sayeh, Byron Stigge, Nathan Leverence, Oliver Medvedik, Lukas Lenherr, Matt Kipilman, Adam Watson, Craig Schwitter, Manuel Garza, Yulho Lee, Ning Lu, Dalia Al Sayeh
Critic: Michael Sorkin, who was paid $3,000 for five days.
Special Thanks: Didem, Cedric

Welcome to Terreform BLOG

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Terreform ONE

ONE Prize Award Ceremony + Exhibition at AIA NY

Talk Radio: Burning Down the House

http://www.heritageradionetwork.com/episodes/2186-Burning-Down-the-House-Episode-86-Urban-Design-Transportation-Architecture

Terreform ONE in Metropolis Magazine

Two thriving design collectives—housed in a nondescript building in Brooklyn—may provide a model for a new way of working.

http://www.metropolismag.com/story/20111115/collaborations-welcome

Motherboard TV: Upgrade: The Living House | Motherboard

Terreform 1st Place Winners in Vienna

E-Waste Bot for Cities

Terreform ONE at Tallinn Architecture Biennale

A Terreformed Summer

The Optimist

One way to ensure a better future for our planet? Give people something to look forward to.

Urban Mobility: Terreform on Current TV

Terreform Company Profile in Google Think Quarterly

Terreform at The Economist; The Outlook for Growth

Future Shock: Escape the Urban Jungle

Terreform in The Huffington Post

ONE Prize 2011: Water as the 6th Borough in NYC

Terreform ONE in Topos 73

Urbaneering Brooklyn NY 2110 - The Sci-Fi-Based Solution to Climate Change

Terreform ONE in New York Times

Exhibition at Proteus Gowanus in Brooklyn NY

Digital Art at Google; Rachel Armstrong & Mitchell Joachim

Detail Magazine on Terreform ONE

A metropolis is reinvented , Mitchell Joachim and Maria Aiolova, Terreform ONE, Detail magazine

Profile for World Architects

American Society of Landscape Architects 2010 Expo in DC

Imaginarium exhibition in Berlin w/ Terreform 1

Terreform ONE in Prague Post

TerreFarm school successfully completed for 2010

Urbaneering Brooklyn, NY 2110

Terreform ONE in the Observer

Is this the sustainable city of the future?

TED Talks: Mitchell Joachim

Surface Magazine: Transport Issue

Popular Science: Mitchell Joachim

Ecological Urbanism book published

Zumtobel Group Award for Sustainability Winners

Terreform ONE review in Toronto Star

One Prize Design Competition

MEx: A Design Cooperative Grows in Brooklyn

Reshaping Cities on CNBC

Design Jazz at Pratt Manhattan Gallery

Carnegie Mellon's Miller Gallery: Terreform 1

TerreFarm: Urban Design + Grow

New Executive Director: Eliot Hodges

Colbert Report: Mitchell Joachim

Ecological Urbanism at Harvard GSD Podcast

Iron Designer

The More the Merrier: An Open Letter for Terreforming

Mitchell Joachim in Rolling Stone Magazine

Michael Sorkin Disclaimer

Harvard GSD Ecological Urbanism Conference

Future North at Superlight MOCA

The 4th NORDIC URBAN DESIGN CONFERENCE

Green Architecture Opening in Prague

Bioworks Institute Website Launched 2009

Fab Tree Hab in Huffington Post via Web Urbanist

WIRED: The 2008 Smart List - 15 People The Next President Should Listen To

In Vitro Meat Habitat

The Visual Rhetoric of Environmentalism at New Museum

CNN: Fab Tree Hab + Mushroom House + MATscape

NextWorld premier episode Aug. 6th on Discovery Channel

New Design Researcher: Eric Tan

Fab Tree Hab at MoMA, July 20-Oct 20

Mike Silver lecture w/ LaN globallocale

Welcome Dan O’Connor

Terreform 1 at World Science Festival

Ecotarium(s): North Pole

Terreform at MASS MoCA

Welcome Jair Laiter

Water this Segment! Fab Tree Hab

Gang of Green: DigitALL Magazine Heroes

Relax - Interiors for Human Wellness

Extreme tree houses: Fab Tree Hab

GSAPP course: Tilling Education

Sabine Gittel: Research on Urbanism

Welcome: Melanie Fessel

Two thriving design collectives—housed in a nondescript building
in Brooklyn—may provide a model for a new way of working.