William J. Mitchell
William John Mitchell (born December 15, 1944 in Horsham , Australia , † June 11, 2010 in Boston , United States ) was an American architect and university professor .
William Mitchell studied at the University of Melbourne (BArch), at Yale University (MED) and at the University of Cambridge (MA). He was director of the architecture / urban planning program at UCLA's Graduate School of Architecture and Urban Planning . Mitchell also taught at Yale University, Carnegie Mellon University, and Cambridge University. He was G. Ware and Edythe M. Travelstead Professor of Architecture and Director of the Masters in Design Studies program at the Harvard Graduate School of Design .
Mitchell was a professor of architecture, media arts and sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology . There he held the Alexander W. Dreyfoos , Jr. professorship and headed the Media-Labs "Smart Cities" research group. He was a Fellow of the Royal Australian Institute of Architects and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . In 1997 he received the "Appreciation" award from the Japan Institute of Architects .
Publications
- Reinventing the Automobile: Personal Urban Mobility for the 21st Century (MIT Press 2010), ISBN 0262013827
- Placing Words: Symbols, Space, and the City (MIT Press, 2005), ISBN 0262633221
- Me ++: The Cyborg Self and the Networked City (MIT Press, 2003), ISBN 0262633132
- e-topia: Urban Life, Jim — But Not As We Know It, (MIT Press, 1999), ISBN 0262632055
- High Technology and Low-Income Communities, with Donald A. Schön and Bish Sanyal (MIT Press, 1998), ISBN 026269199X
- City of Bits: Space, Place, and the Infobahn (MIT Press, 1995), ISBN 0262631768
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| SURNAME | Mitchell, William J. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Mitchell, William John (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American architect |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 15, 1944 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Horsham |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 11, 2010 |
| Place of death | Boston |