Michael Sorkin

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Michael Sorkin
Born
Michael David Sorkin

(1948-08-02)August 2, 1948
Washington, D.C., U.S.
DiedMarch 26, 2020(2020-03-26) (aged 71)
Manhattan, New York City, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
Occupation(s)Architect, urban designer, writer, educator
Spouse
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(m. 1982)​
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PracticeMichael Sorkin Studio

Michael David Sorkin (August 2, 1948 – March 26, 2020) was an American architectural and urban critic, designer, and educator.

Village Voice in New York City, a post which he held for a decade throughout the 1980s. In the ensuing years, he taught at prominent universities around the world, practiced through his eponymous firm, established a nonprofit book press, and directed the urban design program at the City College of New York.[5][6] He died at age 71 from complications brought on by COVID-19 during the COVID-19 pandemic.[7]

Early life and education

Sorkin was born in Washington, D.C. in 1948.[8] He was an architect and urbanist whose practice spanned design, planning, criticism, and teaching.[9] Sorkin received a bachelor's degree from the University of Chicago in 1969, and a masters in architecture from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.Arch '74). Sorkin also held a master's degree in English from Columbia University (MA '70).[10] He was founding principal of the Michael Sorkin Studio, a New York-based global design practice with special interests in urban planning, urban design and green urbanism.[5]

Career

Early career

Sorkin was house architecture critic for The Village Voice in the 1980s, and he authored numerous articles and books on the subjects of contemporary architecture, design, cities, and the role of democracy in architecture.[5][11][12]

Academia

Sorkin was an educator at the collegiate level. He held positions of professor of urbanism and director of Institute of Urbanism of the

Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna from 1993 to 2000,[13][14] He was a visiting professor to many schools, including, for ten years, the Cooper Union in New York. Sorkin also held the Hyde Chair at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln College of Architecture,[15] the Davenport Chair at Yale University School of Architecture,[16] and the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Eliel Saarinen Visiting Professorship, University of Michigan
. He was a
Urbana Champaign,[20] Aarhus School of Architecture, Copenhagen, Denmark,[21] and the London Consortium.[22] He also taught at a number of institutions including Columbia University, London's Architectural Association, and Harvard University.[5]

Dedicated to architectural education for social change, Sorkin oversaw fieldwork in distressed environments such as Johannesburg, South Africa and Havana, Cuba. He co-organized "Project New Orleans" with collaborators Carol McMichael Reese and Anthony Fontenot, to support the post-Katrina city.[23] In 2008, Sorkin was appointed Distinguished Professor of Architecture of the City University of New York.[24]

Design practice

He was a principal in the Michael Sorkin Studio. The studio in

American Institute of Architecture, Architectural League of New York, and in the area of design writing and commentary, for Core 77.[29][30][31][32][33]

Sorkin was the co-president of the

Institute for Urban Design, an education and advocacy organization, and vice president of the Urban Design Forum in New York.[34]

Urban planning projects (selection)

Writing and publishing

Sorkin had a broad career as an architecture writer. He wrote on the topics of

Wall Street Journal, Architectural Review, and The Nation.[5][50][51][52] As a volume editor, he organized multi-authored publications, and he contributed essays to a range of architecture publications. He also authored 20 books.[5][53]

Legacy

Death

Sorkin died on March 26, 2020, from complications brought on by COVID-19 in Manhattan.[54] His death was among the design profession's most prominent losses during the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic — making news internationally and met with an outpouring of tributes and obituaries in mainstream, leftist, and architectural media.[3][5][55][56]

Awards and recognitions

Bibliography

Books

Editor, contributor, selected[75]

  • Sorkin, M.,Can China's Cities Survive? In：Terreform (ed.) Letters to the Leaders of China: Kongjian Yu and the Future of the Chinese,pp. 8–17.

References

  1. ^ "Michael Sorkin Weds Joan K. Copjec, Editor". New York Times. February 3, 1982. Retrieved April 23, 2020.
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  9. ^ Binkovitz, Leah. "The Design Future of New York as Seen by Urbanist Michael Sorkin". smithsonian.com. Cooper-Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum.
  10. ^ Yoe, Mary Ruth (February 2004). "Everybody's A Critic: Michael Sorkin, AB'69". The University of Chicago Magazine. Vol. 96, no. 3.
  11. ^ "Michael Sporkin: Architecture Critic". The Nation. 2015.
  12. ^ Risen, Clay (July 7, 2009). "Vexed Village: An Architect's Daily Commute Inspires Sweeping Critique of City". The Observer.
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  18. ^ "Writing Architecture: Christopher Hawthorne, Florencia Rodriguez, Michael Sorkin and Oliver Wainwright on criticism today; moderated by Michael Hays". Harvard Graduate School of Design.
  19. ^ "Michael Sorkin: How Green Was My City". Cornell University. November 18, 2014.
  20. ^ "Keynote Presentation: Michael Sorkin, The City After Now. Plym Auditorium, Temple Buell Hall". University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign.
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  22. ^ The London Consortium. "Masters & Doctoral Programme in Humanities and Cultural Studies: Visiting Faculty". The London Consortium: a collaboration between the Architectural Association, Birkbeck College (University of London), the Institute of Contemporary Arts, Science Museum and TATE.
  23. ^ "GRANTEE Carol McMichael Reese, Michael Sorkin & Anthony Fontenot". Graham Foundation. 2014.
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  30. ^ "AIANY Housing Awards Winner Symposium". AIA New York. June 23, 2015.
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  45. ^ Thibeau, Erin. "Cooper Hewitt Names New Director and Announces National Design Awards". Architect Magazine: The Journal of the American Institute of Architects.
  46. ^ "28+: MOMA PS1 Rockaway Call for Ideas Winning Proposal / Michael Sorkin Studio". ArchDaily. June 28, 2013.
  47. ^ Sorkin, Michael (July 13, 2005). "Ten Better Places for a Football Stadium". The Architect's Newspaper.
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  50. ^ "Feature: On Criticism". The Architect's Newspaper. November 16, 2005.
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  53. ^ Blinkovitz, Leah (May 20, 2013). "The Design Future of New York as Seen by Urbanist Michael Sorkin: A theorist who can't stop planning has big ideas for his hometown on sustainability, equity and the right to the city". Smithsonia Magazine.
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  57. ^ "CCNY Distinguished Professor Michael Sorkin Elected Fellow Of American Academy Of Arts & Sciences". City College of New York. April 21, 2009. Retrieved March 28, 2020.
  58. ^ Maria Cecilia Fagel and Michael Sorkin, Editors, ed. (2016). "UR (Urban Research)". Terreform. {{cite web}}: |editor= has generic name (help)
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  73. ^ Douglas-Fairhurst, Robert (August 19, 2011). "All Over the Map: Writing on Buildings and Cities by Michael Sorkin". The Telegraph.
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  75. ^ why "selected"? please include all bibliographic entries.
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  88. OCLC 52775189
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  89. ^ Badanes, Steve; Brown, David J.; Nicholson, Ben; Sorkin, Michael (2004). Brown, D.J. (ed.). The HOME House Project: The future of affordable housing. Winston Salem: Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art.
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  92. JSTOR 10.5749/j.cttttr80
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