William J. Mitchell is Professor of Architecture and Media Arts and Sciences and Dean of the School of Architecture and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He teaches and conducts research in design theory, computer applications in architecture and urban design and imaging synthesis. He consults extensively in computer-aided design and was the co-founder of a California software company. His most recent book, The Reconfigured Eye: Visual Truth in the Post-Photographic Era (MIT Press, 1992), deals with the social and cultural impact of digitally altered photographs and synthesized photorealistic scenes. In addition to numerous articles, Mitchell is also the author of Digital Design Media, with Malcolm McCullough (Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1991; second edition in press); The Logic of Architecture (MIT Press, 1990) The Art of Computer Graphics Programming, with Robin S. Liggett and Thomas Kvan (Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1987); and Computer-Aided Architectural Design (Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1977). His study City of Bits: Space Place, and the Infobahn will be published by the MIT Press in 1995.

Mitchell came to MIT in 1992 from the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University, where he was the G. Ware and Edythe M. Travelstead Professor of Architecture and director of the Master in Design Studies program. From 1970 to 1986 he was on the faculty of the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he headed the architecture/urban design program and was associate dean. He has taught at Yale, Carnegie-Mellon, and Cambridge Universities. Mitchell holds a BA from Melbourne University, a Master of Environmental Design from Yale University, and an MA from Cambridge University. He was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters by the New Jersey Institute of Technology in 1992.

William J. Mitchell can be reached at:
fax: +1 617 253 9417
e-Mail: wjm@mit.edu
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