Site: New York, NY, USA
For more than thirty years, Michael Sorkin Studio has been devoted to both practical and theoretical architectural projects at all scales with a special interest in city and green architecture. Michael Sorkin is a Distinguished Professor of Architecture and Director of the Graduate Program in Urban Design at the City College of New York. Sorkin lectures widely and is the author of several hundred articles on architectural and urban subjects, as well as over a dozen books. Sorkin was the architectural critic of the Village Voice for ten years, and is currently a contributing editor to Architectural Record.
The Studio’s recent projects include planning and design for a highly sustainable 5000-unit community in Penang, Malaysia, master planning for Hamburg, Viesselhoevede, Leipzig, and Schwerin, Germany, planning for a Palestinian capital in East Jerusalem, studies of the Manhattan and Brooklyn waterfronts, housing and community design in Far Rockaway, Vienna, Miami, and Mangalore. The Studio is the recipient of numerous awards.