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Michael Sorkin

Michael Sorkin is an architect and architectural critic whose design practice, the Michael Sorkin Studio in New York City, is devoted to both practical and theoretical projects, with a special interest in the city and in green architecture. The Sorkin Studio is active in issues of urban morphology, sustainability, and equity, and has won numerous awards for its work.

Sorkin was born in Washington, D.C., received his architectural training at Harvard and MIT, and is currently the Director of the Graduate Urban Design Program at City College of New York. He has also taught at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, the Architectural Association, Cooper Union, Columbia, Yale, Harvard, Cornell, and at several other U.S. universities. In 2005-06, Sorkin directed studio projects for the post-Katrina reconstruction of Biloxi and New Orleans.

Sorkin lectures widely, and is the author of more than a dozen books. Forthcoming in 2007 are five new works: Twenty Minutes in Manhattan; Eutopia; All Over the Map; Indefensible Space; and Project New Orleans. He is also the author of many articles in a wide range of professional and general journals. He is currently a contributing editor at Architectural Record and Metropolis, and for ten years he was the architecture critic for The Village Voice.