Curriculum Vitae
Professional background
William J. Mitchell, Professor of Architecture and Media Arts and Sciences at MIT, holds the Alexander W. Dreyfoos, Jr. (1954) Professorship and directs the Media Lab's Smart Cities research group. He was formerly Dean of the School of Architecture and Planning and Head of the Programme in Media Arts and Sciences, both at MIT.
His publications include:
- Placing Words: Symbols, Space, and the City (MIT Press, 2005)
- Me++: The Cyborg Self and the Networked City (MIT Press, 2003)
- 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, 1998)
- City of Bits: Space, Place, and the Infobahn (MIT Press, 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)
Before coming to MIT, he was the G. Ware and Edythe M. Travelstead Professor of Architecture and Director of the Master in Design Studies Programme at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. He previously served as Head of the Architecture/Urban Design Programme at UCLA's Graduate School of Architecture and Urban Planning, and he has also taught at Yale, Carnegie-Mellon, and Cambridge Universities. In spring 1999 he was at the University of Virginia as Thomas Jefferson Professor.
He holds a BArch from the University of Melbourne, an MED from Yale University, and an MA from Cambridge. He is a Fellow of the Royal Australian Institute of Architects and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a recipient of honorary doctorates from the University of Melbourne and the New Jersey Institute of Technology. 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."
Mitchell is currently chair of The National Academies Committee on Information Technology and Creativity.
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