William Mitchell
Professor of Architecture and of Media Arts and Sciences
Room E48-319
Department of Urban Studies and Planning
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Ave
Cambridge, MA 02139
Email: wjm@mit.edu
Tel: (617) 253-9885
Current Research
Design theory, computer-aided design, electronic media
Selected Publications
E-Topia Urban Life, Jim, But Not as We Know It (MIT Press, 1999)
High Technology and Low-Income Communities, with Donald A. Schön and Bish Sanyal (MIT Press, 1999)
City of Bits: Space, Place and the Infobahn (MIT Press, 1995)
Digital Design Media, with Malcolm McCullough, (Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1991 and 1995)
The Reconfigured Eye: Visual Truth in the Post-Photographic Era, (MIT Press, 1992)
The Logic of Architecture: Design, Computation, and Cognition, (MIT Press, 1990)
The Poetics of Gardens, with Charles W. Moore and William Turnbull Jr., (MIT Press, 1988)
Computer-Aided Architectural Design, (Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1977)
Recent Classes
11.942 Design Workshop: Mobility-On-Demand Fall 09
11.965/ MAS.967 Design Workshop: Smart Bicycles & Mobility-On-Demand Systems Spring
Recent Awards
In 1997 he was awarded the annual Appreciation Prize of the Architectural Institute of Japan for his "achievements in the development of architectural design theory in the information age as well as worldwide promotion of CAD education."
Additional Information
William Mitchell was born and grew up in Australia, and has resided in the UK and the US. He holds a B.Arch. (honors) from the University of Melbourne, a Master of Environmental Design from Yale University, and a MA from the University of Cambridge. He is a Fellow of the Royal Australian Institute of Architects and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, as well as a recipient of honorary doctorates from the University of Melbourne and the New Jersey Institute of Technology.
Before coming to MIT, he was the G. Ware and Edythe M. Travelstead Professor of Architecture and Director of the Master in Design Studies Program at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. He previously served as Head of the Architecture/Urban Design Program at UCLAs Graduate School of Architecture and Urban Planning, and he has also taught at Yale, Carnegie-Mellon, and Cambridge Universities.
He has consulted extensively, and from 1978 to 1991 he was a founding partner of The Computer-Aided Design Group, a Los Angeles software company that created and marketed CAD and facilities management systems. Dean Mitchell also served as President of The Urban Innovations Group in Los Angeles. He also chairs the Editorial Board of the MIT Press, and is a member of the Management Board.
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