Michael Sorkin

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Michael David Sorkin (born August 2, 1948 in Washington, DC , † March 26, 2020 in New York City ) was an American architect and architecture critic and theorist.

Life

Michael Sorkin studied architecture at the University of Chicago and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and English at Columbia University . In 1980 he founded Michael Sorkin Studios , a New York-based design firm with particular interests in urban planning, town planning and green town planning. He was active worldwide; in Germany he drafted master plans for Hamburg and Schwerin , planned for the former lignite mining area in the southern area of Leipzig , for East Jerusalem and, most recently, in China, including for the technology center in Wuhan. In 2005, Sorkin founded the non-profit research and advisory group Terreform Center for Advanced Urban Research .

Sorkin last taught from 2000 as Distinguished Professor of the Graduate Program in Urban Design at the City College of New York . He has held visiting professorships at the Universities of Nebraska and Michigan and has lectured at Yale, Harvard, Columbia and Cornell University. From 1993 to 2000 he held a professorship for urban development at the Institute for Art and Architecture of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and is considered "one of the companions for a new direction in architecture teaching at the academy".

Sorkin was an architecture critic for the weekly newspaper The Village Voice as well as for The Architectural Review , Architectural Record and The Nation . He published numerous papers on architecture and design as well as urban planning. He was a board member of the Urban Design Forum in New York. Sorkin has received numerous prizes and awards. From 2009 he was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . In 2015 Sorkin received a Guggenheim grant .

He died in March 2020 at the age of 71 as a result of a SARS-CoV-2 infection during the COVID-19 pandemic in New York .

Buildings and projects

  • The Anxin Archipelago, Xiong'an , China (2018)
  • Xi'an Forest Park, Xi'an , China (2017)
  • A New Capital City (Xiong'an), Xi'an, China (2017)
  • Chengdu Jiujiang, Jiujiang , China (2017)
  • Fengxi New City Central Sponge Park Conceptual Design, Xi'an, China (2017)
  • Fengxi New City Baima River Urban Design, Xi'an, China (2017)
  • Davao Chapel, Davao City , Philippines (2017)
  • Shenzhen Pedestrian Bridges, Shenzhen , China (2017)
  • Belfast Revitalization Plan, Belfast , Northern Ireland (2017)
  • Xi'an Mole Center, Xian China (2017)
  • Xi'an Zaoyuan Autoparts Management Building, Xi'an, China (2016)
  • New York Subway Freight System, New York City USA (2016)
  • Golden Oyster Food Culture Town, Bao'an , Shenzhen, China (2016)
  • Zhejiang Cultural Center, Zhejiang , China (2016)
  • Bao'an Fashion Business Zone, Shenzhen, China (2016)
  • Xi'an Zaoyuan Towers, Xi'an, China (2015)
  • City Of Science Laboratory, Xi'an, China (2015)
  • Bonville Ecological Golf Resort, Bonville (New South Wales) , Australia (2015)
  • Barack Obama Community Library, Chicago , USA (2014)
  • University of Zamboanga High School, Zamboanga City , Philippines (2014)
  • Xi'an Yuexiu City, Xi'an China (2014)
  • Yangling Model District Financial Building, Xi'an, China (2014)
  • Wuhan Qingtan Lake Ecological Tech Park, Wuhan , China (2014)
  • Xi'an Commercial Valley Apartment, Club House, New Airport City, Church, Xi'an, China (2013-2014)
  • Masterplan Xiqing District Housing Design, Tianjin , China (2010)
  • A Seven Star Hotel and Clubhouse, Tianjin, China (2008)
  • Progetto di abitazioni, Bodrum , Turkey (2008)
  • Houses at Coorg, Weekend Houses on Plantation, Coorg Kodagu , India (2006)
  • City College of New York Campus, New York, USA (2004)
  • WTO Headquarters, Geneva , Switzerland (2003)
  • Shoehaus, 70 unità di edilizia pubblica, Vienna , Austria (1995)
  • Progetto Tracked Houses, Housing for the Homeless, West Side Rail Yards, New York, USA (1990)
  • Progetto West Hollywood Civic Center, Los Angeles , USA (1988)

Fonts (selection)

  • Michael Sorkin: Exquisite corpse: Writing on buildings . Verso, London 1991, ISBN 0-86091-323-6 .
  • Michael Sorkin (Ed.): Variations on a theme park: The new American city and the end of public space . Hill and Wang, New York 1992, ISBN 0-374-52314-2 .
  • Michael Sorkin: Some Assembly Required . University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis 2001, ISBN 978-0-8166-9101-2 .
  • Michael Sorkin and Sharon Zukin (Eds.): After the World Trade Center: Rethinking New York City . Routledge, New York 2002, ISBN 0-415-93479-6 .
  • Michael Sorkin: Starting From Zero: Reconstructing Downtown New York . Routledge, New York 2003, ISBN 0-415-94734-0 .
  • Michael Sorkin (Ed.): Against the wall: Israel's barrier to peace . New Press, New York 2005, ISBN 1-56584-964-7 .
  • Michael Sorkin: Indefensible Space: The Architecture of the National Insecurity State . Routledge, New York 2008, ISBN 978-0-415-95368-9 .
  • Michael Sorkin: Twenty Minutes in Manhattan . Reaction Books, London 2009, ISBN 1-86189-428-7 .
  • Michael Sorkin: All over the map: Writing on buildings and cities . Verso, London / New York 2011, ISBN 978-1-84467-323-0 .
  • Michael Sorkin: What Goes Up: The Rights and Wrongs to the City . Verso, London / New York 2018, ISBN 978-1-78663-515-0 .

Web links

Commons : Michael Sorkin  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eva C. Schweitzer: The secret softie - Obituary for Michael Sorkin. In: Builder . March 27, 2020, accessed March 30, 2020 . Schwerin master plan. In: sorkinstudio.com. 1998, accessed March 29, 2020 .
  2. ^ Dorothee Wenner: Finding: lifeguards wanted! In: Zeit Online . August 2, 2001, accessed March 30, 2020 . Leipzig south area. In: sorkinstudio.com. 1994, accessed March 29, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Michael Sorkin, East Jerusalem Israel, Palestine, 1999. In: floornature.de. June 14, 2005, accessed March 30, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Obituary - Michael Sorkin has died. In: Süddeutsche.de . March 27, 2020, accessed March 29, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Michael Sorkin: Biography. In: floornature.de. Retrieved March 29, 2020 .
  6. ↑ The Academy mourns Michael Sorkin. Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, accessed on March 29, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Elias Baumgarten: Rich heritage: To the death of Michael Sorkin. In: swiss-architects.com. March 27, 2020, accessed March 29, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Michael Sorkin. John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, accessed March 29, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Wojciech Czaja: Architecture critic Michael Sorkin died of Covid-19. In: derStandard.de . March 28, 2020, accessed March 29, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Sorkin, Michael
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sorkin, Michael David (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American architect, architecture critic and theorist
DATE OF BIRTH August 2, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Washington, DC
DATE OF DEATH March 26, 2020
Place of death New York City