Clinical Associate Professor
B.P.S. Architecture, SUNY, Buffalo, 1994
M.Arch. Architecture, Columbia University, 1997
M.A.U.D. Urban Design, Harvard University, 2002
Ph.D. Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006
Dr. Joachim is a leader in ecological design and urbanism and co-founder at Planetary ONE and Terreform ONE. Previously he was the Frank Gehry Chair at University of Toronto and faculty at Pratt, Columbia, Syracuse, Washington, and Parsons. He was formerly an architect at Gehry Partners, and Pei Cobb Freed. He is a TED Senior Fellow and has been awarded fellowships with Moshe Safdie and Martin Society for Sustainability, MIT. He won the Zumtobel Group Award for Sustainability and Humanity, History Channel and Infiniti Award for City of the Future, and
Time Magazine Best Invention of 2007 with MIT Smart Cities. His project, Fab Tree Hab, has been exhibited at MoMA and widely published. He was chosen by
Wired magazine for "The 2008 Smart List: 15 People the Next President Should Listen To."
Rolling Stone magazine honored Mitchell in "The 100 People Who Are Changing America."
Popular Science magazine has featured his work as a visionary for "The Future of the Environment" in 2010.
