Principal, the Michael Sorkin Studio
Professor of Architecture, Director of the Graduate Urban Design Program, The City College of New York

Michael Sorkin is the principal of the Michael Sorkin Studio, a design practice devoted to practical and theoretical projects at all scales with a special interest in the city. The Studio has recently undertaken large-scale urban projects in China, including a new town for 500,000 near Wuhan. Sorkin is founding President of Terreform, a non-profit organization dedicated to research and intervention in issues of urban morphology, sustainability, equity, and community. Terreform’s major project is an on-going alternative master plan for New York City, based on the premise that the city can become completely self-sufficient. In addition, Sorkin is President of the Institute for Urban Design, an educational and advocacy group, Distinguished Professor of Architecture and the Director of the Graduate Urban Design Program at the City College of New York, and the author or editor of eighteen books on architecture and urbanism.