William J Mitchell
William J. Mitchell (US) is professor of architecture.
William J. Mitchell [photo: Donna Coveney]
William J. Mitchell is Professor of Architecture and Media Arts and Sciences, Academic Head of Media Arts and Sciences at MIT, holds the Alexander W. Dreyfoos, Jr. (1954) Professorship and directs the Media Lab's Smart Cities research group. Mitchell teaches courses and conducts research in design theory, computer applications in architecture and urban design, and imaging and image synthesis. He was formerly Dean of the School of Architecture and Planning and Head of the Program in Media Arts and Sciences, both at MIT. Mitchell's earlier works on computers and design have included overviews of the state of the field (Digital Design Media, with Malcolm McCullough, 2nd ed., 1995) and theoretical analysis including The Logic of Architecture: Design, Computation, and Cognition (1990). Before coming to MIT, he was the G. Ware and Edythe M. Travelstead Professor of Architecture and Director of the Master in Design Studies Program at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. With V2_, he published As If in Interfacing Realities (1997).
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He is the author of Imagining MIT: Designing a Campus for the Twenty-First Century, Placing Words: Symbols, Space, and the City, Me++: The Cyborg Self and the Networked City, e-topia: "Urban Life, Jim--but Not as We Know It," City of Bits: Space, Place, and the Infobahn, and The Reconfigured Eye: Visual Truth in the Post-Photographic Era, all published by The MIT Press.
