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Terreform is an independent, urban research and advocacy center founded in 2005. Its mission is to investigate the forms, policies, technologies, and practices that will yield equitable, sustainable, and beautiful cities for our urbanizing planet.
Terreform is a non-profit 501(c)(3), urban research studio and advocacy group
founded in 2005 by Michael Sorkin. Its mission is to investigate the forms,
policies, technologies, and practices that will yield equitable, sustainable, and
beautiful cities for our urbanizing planet.
Terreform works as a “friend of the court,” dedicated to raising urban
expectations and to disseminating innovative and progressive ideas as widely as
possible. We undertake self-initiated investigations into both local and global
issues and make research available to community and other organizations to
support independent environmental and planning initiatives.
Terreform gained public attention and critical acclaim in 2006 with
Project Loisaida 2106, a proposal for the History Channel’s City of the
Future competition. Like much of Terreform’s work, it focused on New York
City, our home and primary field of speculation. With a scheme imagining
a post-automotive and resilient Lower East Side, Project Loisaida won the
competition’s Infiniti Award.
New York City (Steady) State, our ongoing research project, is a
comprehensive investigation into urban self-sufficiency. While centered on
New York, it is intended to raise issues and propose solutions for cities around
the world that seek to take radical measures to secure their respiration and
autonomy and to achieve a more sustainably democratic polity, founded in
the local. This research was featured in the United States Pavilion at the 2010
Venice Biennale and will be published in a series of forthcoming volumes.
In addition to New York City (Steady) State, we are engaged in a variety
of projects that include speculations on sites in such vexed environments as
Gaza, post-Sandy New York, and Yachay, a new technopole in the Ecuadorean
highlands.
In 2014, Terreform launched its publishing imprint, UR (Urban Research).
UR is intended both as a medium for disseminating our work and as a support
structure for designers and researchers who share the project of a progressive
and liberated urbanism.
Mission
New York City (Steady) StateNew York City (Steady) State explores the morphologies and technologies that
might enable an autonomous and self-sufficient New York City. Under the
framework of Steady State, Terreform has been investigating the possibility
of the city’s ecological footprint becoming co-terminus with its political
boundaries. This fantasy of autarky opens up an exploration of the wide range
of combinations of environmental, architectural, and social conditions that
support urban life.
The first volume of the study — devoted to food — is nearing completion and
volumes on waste, air, water, climate, and movement are underway. Future
areas of study include energy, manufacturing, and building. Our goal is not
simply to test the marginal possibility of complete urban self-responsibility in
New York but also to compile an encyclopedia of forms and technologies that
can help bring cities around the world closer to harmonizing their demands
with the bearing capacity of the earth.
Projects
GowntownIn Gowntown, Terreform investigates the impact of Columbia University’s
expansion into Upper Manhattan and proposes strategies of transformative
leverage that can provide broad and focused benefit, countering an urbanism
of trickle-down and gentrification. Gowntown proposes a planning paradigm
focused on carefully designed — as well as spontaneous — institutional and
environmental connections. Our plan suggests that by improving the physical
and social linkages between educational, cultural, and human service
institutions, their collective positive impact on the communities they inhabit
can be greatly augmented.
The project argues that by breaking down the silos that typically house
these institutions, the city is better served. Although it looks broadly at a large
area, Gowntown eschews narrow planning prescriptions in favor of a series
of propositions that operate in formal, environmental, and social spheres. It
also seeks to address the broader — and highly fraught — issue of the expansion
of urban universities, seeking to identify strategies for generating positive
impacts on their surrounding neighborhoods.
Spatial Ethnography LabThe Spatial Ethnography Lab is committed to developing new, experimental
methodologies connecting ethnographic research at the local, micro-scale to
research at increasingly larger scales using data visualization techniques and
landscape ecology analysis. The lab’s associates are drawn from a network
of academics and practitioners with long term research interests in specific
places, connected to each other through previous collaborative work and
exchange. Our current projects are based in Mumbai, India, Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil and the Nile River Delta, Egypt and we are committed to adding sites
and projects incrementally based on associates’ interests. Spatial Ethnography
Lab is a new initiative of Terreform and was founded by Vyjayanthi V. Rao and
Vineet Diwadkar. For more information, please visit: www.se-l.net.
Open Gaza Gaza is one of the most beleaguered environments on earth. Crammed into
a space of 139 square miles (360 square kilometers), 1.8 million people live
under siege. For urban scholars, activists, and designers alike, Gaza presents
a unique political and ethical problem space. Terreform has brought together
a large, collaborative, group of architects, urban designers, social scientists,
and cultural theorists to think through how this situation might be changed.
Can planning, design, and technology aid in advancing a more just and humane
urbanism? What kinds of research and representation are required to assist
these projects and speculations?
We know from the outset that the “footprint” of Gaza extends — must
extend — far beyond its political borders and the imaginaries that confine it to
its present physical boundaries. Our objective is not to elaborate a model that
obliges Gaza to “live within its means,” but to unpack ideas about both limits
and possibilities. Through essays, colloquies, and designs, we are investigating
the nature, variety, and permeability of the membranes — material and
immaterial — that limn both the physical and conceptual space of Gaza.
The Next Helsinki Together with independent arts organization Checkpoint Helsinki and labor
rights initiative, G.U.L.F., Terreform launched The Next Helsinki, a call for
ideas to highlight the potential effects of the Guggenheim-sponsored design
competition for a museum in Helsinki. Our aim was to elevate the debate
about the fantasy of a high-concept museum as an urban solution by giving
voice to bold and thoughtful alternatives. We called on the design and urbanist
communities, poets, musicians, and “ordinary” citizens to freely imagine how
Helsinki and its South Harbor could be transformed for the maximum benefit of
residents and visitors. We received a range of ideas and provocations addressing
issues such as sustainability, the formation of neighborhoods, movement
systems, boundaries, local support for art communities, and other urban issues
that a large, multinational “branded” museum may not prioritize. Through
The Next Helsinki, we continue the various strands of discussions about how a
city — the greatest collective work of art ever conceived — builds for the future.
The Case of Yachay In this project, Terreform and a group of collaborators interrogate the logic
of the Technopole as an instrument of development by studying the specific
case of Yachay, a new “knowledge city” in northern Ecuador. Such cities
are being produced across the global south, with the view that more Silicon
Valleys offer salvation from the geopolitical and economic realities of the
region. We question these forms of growth, which isolate the development
of scientific knowledge and technological prowess from the surrounding
community, its needs, and its well-being. We argue that the production of
knowledge is not an isolated endeavor that divides intellectual elites from
ordinary citizens and show how this practice can be given shape through
spatial development and integration.
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Second Growth: Call for IdeasSecond Grown is an initiative concerned with patterns of succession for a
ubiquitous environment of modernity, whether found on the vast peripheries
of the cities of China, in new developments in India, or in the mass housing
projects that checker Europe and America. We all know the pattern: the
disengaged, uniform, towers, employment at a distance, a life without streets,
no culture, minimal infrastructure, boredom, estrangement, the concrete
denial of neighborliness.
What will happen next? Second Growth is a speculation about transforming
these places into sustainable, humane, equitable, and beautiful environments.
The ambition of the project is not to investigate this too general condition
but to propose — with aspirations both practical and polemical — forms and
directions for its transformation.
We invite contributions in the forms of texts, designs, and documentations
that address this archipelago of sites at the intersection of cities, design,
urbanization, and sustainability. For more information, please go to
www.terreform.info/secondgrowth.
QROWQROW (Queensway Right-of-Way) is a policy initiative developed by Terreform
to insure safe passage for citizens on and around the proposed Queensway
elevated park. Developed as a counter response, we raised the issue of
NYPD’s stop-and-frisk activity around the neighborhood and proposed
the construction of temporary accessory structures on and alongside the
Queensway. The structures serve as observation towers to facilitate the
monitoring and documentation of all stop-and-frisk activity by the NYPD. The
initiative, in the form of a new ordinance for the city, creates a framework for
citizen oversight of the police force.
28+28+ takes its name from the elevation above which the city is “safe” from
floods. We have designed a barrier that connects this contour, beginning from
a ridge at the end of the Rockaways, running along the peninsula, crossing
Jamaica bay, and meeting at the Verrazano Narrows. The levee we propose is
habitable. Not only does it allow the protection of buildings otherwise at risk,
it increases the stock of waterfront residences and commercial spaces and
improves public transit connections to the rest of the city.
Self-Sufficient SkyscraperAt the 2010 Venice Architecture Biennale, Terreform proposed the recycling
of a derelict skyscraper to become a largely closed loop — a sustainable
vertical neighborhood. Housing 500 people, it would harmonize inputs and
outputs — with some necessary reliance on external sources — to provide an
environmentally autonomous building. Although this proposal provides an
infrastructure of conviviality it does not seek to be an enclave: the social life
of the city must span all its scales and places.
Our Cities OurselvesTerreform’s proposal for a car-free New York City foregrounds the social
logic of movement, not merely the physics of bodies in space. The project is
predicated on an idea about urban circulation that grows from a vision not of
speed and isolation of modes, but of slow motion and mix.
The image of roiling sea of pedestrians, scooters, bullock carts, cars,
buses, trucks, elephants, bikes, and of course, those enabling cows may not
be precisely the model for New York but it suggests characteristics that seem
extremely relevant. The Institute for Transportation and Development Policy
commissioned and exhibited this project in New York City, Brazil and Mexico.
This is NewarkIn 2009, Terreform was invited by the City of Newark, New Jersey Division of
Planning & Community Development to submit a proposal for “This Is Newark,”
an initiative to create a series of “gateways” for the city. We proposed a system
of Green Gateways, acupuncture points that provide an embracing threshold
of living landscape. We suggested combining various greenways throughout the
city, including its linear park, waterways, and disused rail routes.
New Algiers Working with colleagues from Tulane University, Terreform was involved in
producing an archive, book, and conference devoted to the architectural
and planning response to Hurricane Katrina. In addition, Terreform created
a design proposal for a system of self-financing, habitable levees along the
Mississippi River that joins the larger project’s compendium of responses.
For more information on our current and completed projects please see: www.terreform.info/projects
Project Loisaida 2106Project Loisaida 2106 was a proposal to imagine a post-automotive and
resilient Lower East Side for the History Channel’s City of the Future
competition. The project received the competition’s Infiniti Award.
City Service is an informal cooperative of urban specialists—coordinated by
Terreform—who have joined together to facilitate the rapid creation of new
cities. We have united not simply in response to the exponential urbanization
of the planet—the addition of over a million people to our cities each week—
but more specifically to address the crisis of the shocking number (over
15,000,000) of political and economic refugees gathered in hopeless camps.
We are now organizing ourselves to create a “model” city for approximately
25,000 people. We’re provisionally focused on a site in Haiti that has recently
become home for a very large colony of refugees expelled from the Dominican
Republic. We believe that, if properly mobilized, we can produce initial plans
in a matter of months and begin building as soon as harmonious engagement
with local stakeholders is assured. Of course, this will depend on negotiating
a series of economic and political obstacles—the organization of a parallel
operational infrastructure of Haitians—but we have, collectively, enough
experience designing cities, systems, and buildings from scratch (in Haiti,
among other places) to know that our part of the process can happen fast.
We seek first to rapidly provide shelter, livelihood, and amenity for a
population that is simply bereft. But our larger objective—which we hope
to duplicate again and again—is to demonstrate a possibility: bypassing the
indefinite squalor and indignity of the refugee camp by affirming the right to
a permanent home and livelihood in place. For more information, please visit:
www.terreform.info/cityservice.
Our Partners
MASS Design Group
LEVEL Infrastructure
ARCHIVE Global
Jonathan Kirschenfeld Architect PC
Terrence Curry, SJ, AIA
Hoffman Brandt Projects
Marshall Moya Design
Michael Sorkin Studio
UR is a series of books that focuses on speculation about and analysis of the
world’s cities. Understanding that no single discourse is adequate to confront
the promise and problems of the urban, we publish a wide range of progressive
ideas and designs and welcome proposals for future books.
Our forthcoming list includes projects ranging from the practical to the
utopian, from community-generated plans for neighborhood transformation
to outstanding outcomes from academic studios, to visionary speculations by
designers burning the midnight oil, and to collations of scholarly arguments
about the most urgent issues of urban growth and survival.
Our remit is to get the word out about solutions that exceed the
imaginative reach of “official” planning and design, and to encourage the most
vigorous forms of debate. UR, the imprint of Terreform, seeks to become the
default venue for individuals and organizations engaged in progressive urban
research, design, and critical advocacy.
(Urban Research)
UR04
Adventures in Modernism: Thinking with Marshall BermanJennifer Corby, Editor
Contributors: Jamie Aroosi; Marshall Berman; Todd Gitlin; Marta Gutman; Owen Hatherley; Esther Leslie; Andy Merrifield; Ali Mirsepassi; Joan Ockman; Kirsteen Paton; Robert Snyder
UR02
Waterproofing New YorkDenise Hoffman Brandt and Catherine Seavitt Nordenson, Editors
Contributors: Lance Jay Brown; Nette Compton; Deborah Gans; Jeffrey Hou; Lydia Kallipoliti; Signe Nielsen; Kate Orff; Thaddeus Pawlowski; Sandra Richter; Janette Sadik-Khan; Hilary Sample; Judd Schechtman; Gullivar Shepard; Michael Sorkin; Byron Stigge; Erika Svendsen, Lindsay Campbell, Nancy F. Sonti and Gillian Baine; Georgeen Theodore
UR01
Gowntown: A 197-x Plan for Upper Manhattan Terreform
UR06
Mahometan & Celestial’s Encyclopaedic Guide to ModernityComprising a Manual of Useful Instruction Essential to Attainment of the Urbane by the Savage, the Barbarous, and the Half-Civilized AlikeSteven Flusty with Pauline C. Yu
UR05
Beyond the Square: Urbanism and the Arab UprisingsDeen Sharp and Claire Panetta, Editors
Contributors: Khaled Adham; Susana Galán; Azam Khatam; C. Lanthier; Ed McAllister; Julie Mehretu; G. Ollamh; Duygu Parmaksızoglu; Aseel Sawalha; Helga Tawil-Souri
UR03
2100: A Dystopian UtopiaThe City After Climate ChangeVanessa Keith / StudioTEKAIntroduction by Saskia Sassen
UR Books may be purchased at urpub.org
Forthcoming UR Books
New York City (Steady) State: Home GrownTerreform
Gregory Ain and the Social Landscape: From the Single-Family House to Cooperative HousingAnthony Fontenot
Occupy All Streets: The Rio de Janeiro Olympics and the Competition Over Urban FuturesBruno Carvalho, Mariana Cavalcanti and Vyjayanthi Rao Venuturupalli Editors
Contributors: Renata Bertol; Bruno Carvalho; Mariana Cavalcanti; Gabriel Duarte; Beatriz Jaguaribe; Guilherme Lassance; Bryan McCann; Julia O’Donnell; Scott Salmon; Lilian Sampaio; Vyjayanthi Rao Venuturupalli; Theresa Williamson
Kongjian Yu: Letters to the Mayors of ChinaTerreform, Editor
Contributors: Weiwei Ai; Thomas J. Campanella; Nic Cavell; Zhongjie Lin; Qingyun Ma; Xuefei Ren; Peter. G. Rowe; Michael Sorkin; Daniel Sui; Julie Sze; Robin Visser
Open GazaTerreform, Editor
50 Ways to Game a City: Loophole Planning in Contemporary MumbaiVyjayanthi Rao Venuturupalli with Vineet Diwadkar
New York City (Steady) State: Waste NotTerreform
The Helsinki Effect: A Public Alternative to Culture Driven DevelopmentTerike Haapoja, Andrew Ross and Michael Sorkin, Editors
Contributors: Miguel Robles-Duran; Terike Haapoja; Juhani Pallasmaa; Andrew Ross; Michael Sorkin; Kaarin Taipale; Mabel Wilson; Sharon Zukin
El Helicoide: From Futuristic Mall to Panoptic PrisonCeleste Olalquiaga and Lisa Blackmore, Editors
Contributors: Fabiola Arroyo; Carola Barrios; Lisa Blackmore; Angela Bonadies; Carlos Brillembourg; Erik del Búfalo; Cheo Carvajal; René Davids; Vicente Lecuna; Celeste Olalquiaga; Juan José Olavarria; Sandra Pinardi; Simón Rodriguez Porras; Iris Rosas; Tomás Straka; Patricio del Real; Jorge Villota
Why Yachay?Cities, Knowledge, and DevelopmentTerreform, Editor
Contributors: Tom Angotti; Nicholas Anastasopoulos; Xabier E. Barandiaran and David Vila-Viñas; Felipe Correa; Ana María Durán; María Cristina Gomezjurado Jaramillo; Mauricio Moreno; Jorge Ponce Arteta; Thomas Purcell, Maribel Cadenas Álvarez and Miquel Fernández-González; Miguel Robles-Duran; Michael Sorkin; Achva Benzinberg Stein; Japhy Wilson and Manuel Bayón
Zoned Out:Race, Displacement and City Planning in New York CityTom Angotti and Sylvia Morse, Editors
Contributors: Tom Angotti; Philip DePaolo; Peter Marcuse; Sylvia Morse; Samuel Stein
Who Owns Your Space? Confronting Privatization by Designing New Publics Quilian Riano
An Atlas of Extraordinary Rendition: Space, Sovereignty and Torture in the Global War on TerrorJordan H. Carver
PeopleTerreform is a collaborative group of designers, social scientists, and urban
researchers with experience in academia, private practice, public interest
organizations, government and community activism.
Michael Sorkin, President, is an architect and urbanist whose practice spans design, criticism, and pedagogy. Since 2000, Sorkin has been Distinguished Professor of Architecture and Director of the Graduate Program in Urban Design at City College of New York. He is the architecture critic for The Nation, contributing editor at Architectural Record, and author or editor of
twenty books. Sorkin is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, the recipient of the 2013 Cooper-Hewitt National Design Mind Award, and is a 2015 Guggenheim Fellow. He is also Principal of Michael Sorkin Studio, an international design practice that works in close collaboration with Terreform.
Vyjayanthi V. Rao, Ph.D., Director of Terreform, is an anthropologist by training. Prior to joining Terreform, she held research and teaching positions at The New School for Social Research and at The University of Chicago where she also received her doctorate. From 2002 to 2004 she served as the Research Director of the Initiative on Cities and
Globalization at Yale University and as the Co-Director of Partners for Urban Knowledge, Action and Research (PUKAR), an innovative urban laboratory in Mumbai, India. Her current work focuses on cities after globalization, specifically on the intersections of urban planning, design, art, violence, and speculation. She is the author of numerous articles on these topics in noted journals, the co-editor of Speculation, Now: Essays and Artwork (Duke University Press, 2015) and is completing a manuscript on the spatial transformation of Mumbai. Read more at www.vyjayanthirao.info.
Maria Cecilia Fagel, Executive Editor, is an architecture/urban researcher, critic and writer. She has a BArch from the University of San Carlos—Technological Center, Cebu, a BBA in Design Management from Parsons, The New School for Design, and an MFA in Design Criticism from the School of Visual Arts. Prior to joining Terreform, she was a market research
analyst for a New York City-based Advisor to Dentsu Japan, where she was responsible for developing media marketing strategy, trend analysis and creative management and production. Her work has been published in Architect’s Newspaper, Verlag form GmbH & Co. KG and by the Cooper-Hewitt’s DesignFile.
Fern Lan Siew, Research Director, is originally from Malaysia. She is a graduate of the Masters of Landscape Architecture program at CCNY, an MAT in Secondary Biology from Cornell University, and a BS in Physiology. Her background includes applied and basic research work in animal science, and plant breeding and genomics. She was a curriculum
developer at the Nanobiotechnology Center and Cornell University, designing science kits and laboratory modules for a series of programs funded by the National Science Foundation and National Institute of Health prior to returning to graduate school for her M.L.A. While studying landscape architecture, she worked at Freshkills Park Alliance NYC. She also collaborated on a book project about greenways with, WE Design, based in Brooklyn, New York.
Isaac Gertman, Design Director, is a graphic designer, educator, and urbanist. In addition to his role at Terreform, he leads design direction at The Independent Group, and is a member of the full-faculty at Maryland Institute College of Art. In 2014, he was named a Public Access Design Fellow by the Center for Urban Pedagogy. His work has been recognized
nationally and internationally, and has been featured in numerous books and blogs. Isaac received an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, and a BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art.
Elisabeth Weiman, Communications Director, has a master’s degree in Anthropology from The New School (TNS), and a bachelor’s degree in Cultural Studies from Towson University. She held research and editorial positions with senior scholars and faculty at TNS and the California Institute of Integral Studies. Before joining Terreform, she worked
as a Data Specialist with the Baltimore Neighborhood Indicators Alliance, and as the Community Liaison for the Women’s Economic Agenda Project in California. Her research, “Where Trust Instust Intersects: A Meet Between Residents and Indicator Data in Baltimore City”, will be published by The New School.
Trudy Giordano, Studio Manager, was born in Thailand and raised in the Netherlands. She has a fashion and design degree from Noorderpoort College. Prior joining Terreform, she worked in a photography studio in New York City. Trudy is concurrently studio manager for Michael Sorkin Studio.
Damiano Cerrone, Principal Researcher, is a spatial planner and analyst with a BA in Urban Planning and Geographic Information Systems from La Sapienza University, Rome. He also holds a MSc in Urban Studies from the Estonian Academy of Arts and is currently in its doctorate track in architecture and planning. In 2015, Damiano received ESRI’s Young
Scholar of the Year award. At Terreform, Damiano is working on forthcoming UR book, Open Gaza.
Vineet Diwadkar, Principal Researcher, is a designer and urban planner. He received a MA in Urban Planning and in Landscape Architecture from Harvard University Graduate School of Design and a BArch from Georgia Tech. At Harvard, he was a research associate with the Urban South Asia Project and Urban Theory Lab, and a community-based
planner and faculty member at the National Institute of Design. Vineet Is co-author of the forthcoming UR book, 50 Ways to Game a City: Loophole Planning in Contemporary Mumbai.
Andrea Johnson, Principal Researcher, is a graduate of the Master of Landscape Architecture program Landscape Architecture program at CCNY. She has a BA in Latin American and Caribbean Studies, minor in Anthropology from the University of Michigan. She was recently named 2015 National Olmsted Scholar Finalist. Prior to her landscape studies,
Andrea was a migration counselor in New York City. At Terreform, she is working on UR books, Gowntown: A 197-x Plan for Upper Manhattan and Why Yachay? Cities, Knowledge, and Development.
Aysegül Didem Özdemir, Ph.D., Principal Researcher, is an urban planner with a BA in City Planning and MA in Urban Conservation, both from Mimar Sinan University. She also holds a doctoral degree in urban design from Istanbul Technical University and an MA in Urban Design from CCNY. Prior to Terreform and for close to a decade, Didem worked as
project coordinator at the Municipal of Istanbul—Urban Design Group. Didem is currently Terreform’s head researcher for the New York City (Steady) State project, Waste Not.
Christina Serifi, Principal Researcher, is an urban designer and Fulbright scholar. She has an MA in Urban Design from CCNY and a professional degree as an architect engineer from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece. She is working on forthcoming UR book, Why Yachay? Cities, Knowledge, and Development.
Deen Sharp, Principal Researcher, is a doctoral candidate in the Earth and Environmental Sciences program, specializing in Geography, at the CUNY Graduate Center. Previously, he was a freelance journalist and consultant based in Lebanon. His research focuses on the geography of the Arab world and his current project concerns the corporation and
urban space in post-war Beirut. He has written for a number of publications, including, Jadaliyya, Portal 9, the Arab Studies Journal, and The Guardian. He is co-editor of Beyond the Square: Urbanism and the Arab Uprisings (UR Books, 2016).
Terreform works also closely with Michael Sorkin Studio whose members
donate their time and skills to its projects.
Makoto Okazaki is Partner and Principal Architect at Michael Sorkin Studio. Born and raised in Kobe, Japan, he has twenty-five years of experience in architecture, urban design, and construction management, with an architectural license approved by the Japanese Ministry of Construction (1995). He also holds a Masters in Urban Planning degree
from The City College of New York. Makoto is devoted to both practical and theoretical projects at all scales, with a special interest in the city and green architecture.
Ying Liu is an architectural designer at Michael Sorkin Studio and a LEED Green Associate. Originally from Liaoning, China, she holds a BArch degree from Tianjian University and an MArch from University of Southern California. Her graduate research work was included in the article, “Termite Urbanism,” published by AD (Architecture Design).
Jie Gu is an urban designer at Michael Sorkin Studio. He has over ten years of working experience in architecture and urban design. Previously, he was middle senior architect at AECOM and the Beijing Institute of Architectural Design. Jie holds a Master of Urban Design degree from The City College of of New York and a Masters degree in Urban Environmental Design from
Beijing University.
Design and Research InternsSofie BlomMonika DattaJonas GonzalezTolga MizrakciDalia MunenzonJonathan NgoYou Wu
Editorial AssociatesLaura BelikNic CavellMichelle Alice KennedyPatricia LassanceAsia MernissiAndrew MoonLaura Sanchez
For a full list of our researchers and designers, please see: www.terreform.info/people
As a small, non-profit, organization, we depend on and thank our generous
donors of the past and present, and look forward to a league of future
supporters, a network of like-minded people and organizations.
Support
For further information on Terreform’s expertise and research programs, please contact Vyjayanthi Rao at: [email protected]
Terreform Board of Directors Michael Sorkin
Joan Copjec, Ph.D.
Jonathan House, MD
M. Christine Boyer, Ph.D.
Richard Finkelstein, ESQ
Makoto Okazaki
UR Advisory Board Tom AngottiHunter College of CUNY
Kazi AshrafUniversity of Hawaii
M. Christine BoyerPrinceton University
Teddy CruzEstudio Teddy Cruz
Mike DavisUC Riverside
Ana Maria Duran CalistoEstudio AO
Anthony FontenotWoodbury School of Architecture
Susanna HechtUCLA
John HillNew York Institute of Technology
Walter HoodUC Berkeley
Cindi KatzGraduate Center CUNY
Romi KhoslaRomi Khosla Design Studio
Thom MayneMorphosis Architects
Suha OzkanWorld Architecture Community
Quilian RianoDSGN AGNC
Colin RobinsonOR Books
Jonathan SolomonSchool of the Art Institute of Chicago
Tau TavengwaAfrican Center for Cities
Srdjan WeissNormal Architecture Office
Eyal WeizmanGoldsmiths College
Mabel WilsonColumbia GSAPP
Kongjian YuPeking University
Institutions
Design/Architectural Offices
Individuals
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