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Michael Sorkin


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Michael Sorkin
1973/74 - Consultant of the Curator of Design at the Museum of Modern Art, New York 
1977 - Graduates from Harvard University Department of Fine Arts with a degree in Architecture
1977 - Opens Michael Sorkin Studio in New York 
1978/80 - Adjunct Assistant Professor at Columbia University, New York
1980 - Teaches at the Institute of Architecture and Urban Studies, New York
1983 - Adjunct Associate Professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York
1983 - Visiting Critic at the University of Texas, Austin, Texas
1984/85 - Visiting Critic at Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut), University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia), University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill) 
1987 - Manufacturers Hanover/Art World Award for Distinguished Newspaper Art Criticism
1987 - National Endowment for the Arts Scholarship, Washington1988 - AIA Center for Architecture Scholarship, New York
1988/90 - Visiting Professor at the Southern California Institute of Architecture, Los Angeles
1990 - Davenport Chair at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
1990/91 - Adjunct Professor at Columbia University, New York
1991 - Progressive Architecture Design Award
1992 - Hyde Chair at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln
1993 - Professor of Urbanism and Director of the Institute of Urbanism, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna
1994 - Visiting Critic at Carleton University, Ottawa
1994 - "World War II and the American Dream" exhibition at the National Building Museum, Washington
1995/96 - I.D. Design Award
1995/96 - "Urbanagrams. Urban design projects of Michael Sorkin Studio" exhibition at Harvard University (Cambridge) and Cornell University (Day Hall Lobby, Ithaca) 
1995 - Visiting Professor at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
1995 - "Subjects & Objects" exhibition at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
1996 - Visiting Professor at Columbia University, New York
1997 - Visiting Professor at Parsons School of Design, New York
1997 - Gensier Family Chair at Cornell University, Day Hall Lobby, Ithaca
1998 - Visiting Professor at Aarhus School of Architecture, Aarhus, Denmark
Works

1990 - Tracked Houses, New York
1990/92 - Godzilla, multipurpose skyscraper, Tokyo, Japan
1991 - Housing development, New York
1991 - Sheep Soho, loft housing, New York 
1991 - Beached Houses, Whitehouse, Jamaica
1994 - Weed AZ, plan for a new city, Yuma, Arizona 
1994 - Shrooms lofts, New York 
1994 - Brooklyn Waterfront masterplan, New York 
1994 - Mondo Condo, Miami, Florida
1994 - Shoehaus residences, Vienna, Austria 
1994 - Spa Tokaj, urban plan, Budapest, Hungary
1995 - Südraum Leipzig, plan for redevelopment of an industrial zone, Leipzig, Germany
1995/96 - East New York, urban planning proposal, Brooklyn, New York
1996 - Beachfront Resort, Palau, Philippines
1996 - Visselhoevede Town Plan, Visselhoevede, Germany
1996 - Neurasia, masterplan, Hong Kong 
1997 - Bay City Studies, masterplan, San Francisco 
1997 - Chavez Ravine, public park, Los Angeles 1997 - Floating Islands, Hamburg, Germany 
1997 - Friedrichshof Commune, Burgenland, Austria
1998 - Masterplan for Hamburg, Germany
1998 - EuRomania, shopping centre, Bucharest, Romania
1998 - University of Chicago Master Plan, Chicago, Illinois
1998 - Columbus Circle Study, renovation of a subway station, New York 
1998 - Farafrah Master Plan, Farafrah, Egypt
1999 - East Jerusalem, urban plan, Jerusalem
1999 - Masterplan for Schwerin, Germany
2001 - Lower Manhattan Masterplan, New York 
2001 - Kowloon, Masterplan, Hong Kong
2002 - Osaka Masterplan, Osaka, Japan
2003 - Cleveland Waterfront, Cleveland, Ohio 
2003 - Rochdale, Masterplan, England
2004 - Queens Plaza, New York 

- Penang Turf Club Masterplan, Penang, Malaysia (currently being implemented) 
- Waterfronts Current City College of New York Campus Masterplan, New York (currently being implemented)