University, London's Architectural Association, and Harvard University. Dedicated to architectural education for social change, Sorkin oversaw fieldwork in distressed environments such as Johannesburg, South Africa and Havana, Cuba. He co-organized "Project New Orleans" with collaborators Carol McMichael Reese and Anthony Fontenot, to support the post-Katrina city. In 2008, Sorkin was appointed Distinguished Professor of Architecture of the City University of New York. Design practice He was a principal in the Michael Sorkin Studio. The studio in New York City focuses primarily on professional practice in the urban public realm. Sorkin designed environmental projects in Hamburg, Germany, and proposed master plans for the Palestinian capital in East Jerusalem, and the Brooklyn waterfront and Queens Plaza in New York City. His urban studies have been the subject of gallery exhibits, and in 2010, he received the American Academy of Arts and Letters award in architecture. Sorkin presented regularly at regional, national, and international conferences, and he served as adviser and juror on numerous professional committees, including The Guggenheim Helsinki Design Competition, The Aga Khan Trust for Culture's Aga Khan Award for Architecture, Chrysler Design Award, the New York City Chapter of the American Institute of Architecture, Architectural League of New York, and in the area of design writing and commentary, for Core 77. Sorkin was the co-president of the Institute for Urban Design, an education and advocacy organization, and vice president of the Urban Design Forum in New York. Urban planning projects (selection) 1994: Masterplan for the Brooklyn Waterfront. 1994: Proposal for Südraum Leipzig 1998: Alternative University of Chicago campus masterplan. 2001: Proposal for Arverne Urban Renewal Area on the Rockaway peninsula, Queens, N.Y. 2001: A Plan For Lower Manhattan. 2004: Project for Penang Peaks, Penang, Malaysia. 2005: Masterplan for New City, Chungcheong, South Korea. 2009: Seven Star Hotel, Tianjin Highrise Building, Tianjin, China. 2010: Case Study: Feeding New York in New York. 3rd International Holcim Forum 2010 in Mexico City. 2010: Plan for Lower Manhattan. Exhibition, Our Cities Ourselves: The Future of Transportation in Urban Life Center for Architecture, Greenwich Village, N.Y. 2012: concept for Xi'an, China Airport Office Building 2013: 28+: MOMA PS1 Rockaway. 2013: New York City Football Stadium Site Survey. 2013: An alternative proposal for NYU. Writing and publishing Sorkin had a broad career as an architecture writer. He wrote on the topics of contemporary architecture and urban dynamics, along the dimensions of environmentalism, sustainability, pedestrianization, public space,