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

Welcome Jair Laiter

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

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 Terreform: 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

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/

Sabine Gittel: Research on Urbanism

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

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

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

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

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

Terreform on CNET

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

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

Terreform in Newsweek

"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

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

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

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

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

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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Sundance Channel
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Sundance Channel
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Shanghai Pudong District

Sundance Channel Roundtable Discussion

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

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

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

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

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