William J. Mitchell

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Bibliography

Mitchell, William J., Placing Words: Symbols, Space, and the City. Cambridge: MIT Press. (September 2005).

Mitchell, William J., Me++: The Cyborg Self and the Networked City. Cambridge: MIT Press. (October 2003).

Mitchell, William J., “What’s yours is mined.” Royal Institute of British Architecture, no. 110/08, (August 2003): 16.

Mitchell, William J., “We could be heroes.” Royal Institute of British Architecture, no. 110/07, (July 2003): 20.

Mitchell, William J., Alan S. Inouye, and Marjory S. Blumenthal, eds., Beyond Productivity: Information Technology, Innovation, and Creativity. Washington, D.C.: The National Academies Press. 2003.

Mitchell, William J., “Homer to Home Page: Designing Digital Books.” In Rethinking Media Change: The Aesthetics of Transition (Media in Transition book series vol. 2), eds. Henry Jenkins and David Thorburn, 203-215. Cambridge: MIT Press. 2003.

Mitchell, William J., “Exclusion zones.” Royal Institute of British Architecture, no. 110/06, (June 2003): 22.

Mitchell, William J., “Guernica of our times.” Royal Institute of British Architecture, no. 110/05, (May 2003): 20.

Mitchell, William J., “Weapon of mass distraction.” Royal Institute of British Architecture, no. 110/04, (April 2003): 18.

Mitchell, William J., “Fair dinkum Aussie.” Royal Institute of British Architecture, no. 110/03, (March 2003): 18.

Mitchell, William J., “What Cyberspace Does to Real Space.” Topic Magazine, Topic 3: Cities (March 2003): 34-41.

Mitchell, William J., “Poison Ivy.” Royal Institute of British Architecture, no. 110/02, (February 2003): 18-19.

Mitchell, William J., “The Internet, New Urban Patterns, and Conservation.” In Conservation in the Internet Age: Threats and Opportunities, ed. James N. Levitt, 50-60. Washington, DC: Island Press, 2002.

Mitchell, William J., "Complexity and Composition." In Design Is…Words, Things, People, Buildings, and Places at Metropolis, ed. Akiko Busch, 182-184. New York: Princeton Architectural Press/Metropolis Books, 2002. Originally published in Metropolis 5 (September 1985): 32-34.

Mitchell, William J. "Dream Homes." New Scientist no. 2347 (15 June 2002): 38-42.

Mitchell, William J. "E-Bodies, E-Building, E-Cities." In Designing for a Digital World (selections from the conference E-Futures: Designing for a Digital World, in London, June 4, 2001), ed. Neil Leach, 50-56. Chichester, UK: Wiley-Academy, 2002.

Mitchell, William J., "Electronic Cottages, Wired Neighborhoods, and Smart Cities." In Smart Growth: Form and Consequences, ed. Terry Szold and Armando Carbonell, 69-83. Cambridge, MA: Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, 2002.

Mitchell, William J., "Information Technology in Interior Design." In Interior Design Handbook of Professional Practice, ed. Cindy Coleman, 247-263. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2002.

Mitchell, William J., "Intelligent Interiors." In Interior Design Handbook of Professional Practice, ed. Cindy Coleman, 49-61. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2002.

Mitchell, William J., "The Revenge of Place." In This Is Not Architecture: Media Constructions, ed. Kester Rattenbury, 45-53. London and New York: Routledge, 2002.

Mitchell, William J. "Electronic Doublin'," Images by Andrew Clancy. Archis, no. 2 (2002): 22-31.

Mitchell, William J., review of Mapping Cyberspace, by Martin Dodge and Rob Kitchin. Environment and Planning A 34, no. 2 (February 2002): 369-370.

Mitchell, William J., "Wunderkammer to World Wide Web: Picturing Place in the Post-Photographic Era." In Picturing Place: Photography and the Geographical Imagination, eds. Joan Schwartz and James Ryan. Chichester: John Wiley, 2002.

Mitchell, William J., "Electronic Cottages, Wired Neighborhoods, and Smart Cities," Planning in London, no. 39 (Oct/Dec. 2001): 16-20.

Mitchell, William J., "Theory: A Very Useful Engine," Architecture + Urbanism no. 374 (November 2001): 116-117.

Mitchell, William J., "Gotham's Gateway," review of Grand Central Terminal: Railroads, Engineering, and Architecture in New York City, by Kurt Schlichting. New Scientist, no. 2300 (21 July 2001): 51.

Mitchell, William J., "E-green." Dean's Column. ACSA News (April 2001): 5.

Mitchell, William J., "ME ++: Cyborg City Surfing," Projections: MIT Student Journal of Planning 2 (Spring 2001): 2-5.

Mitchell, William J., "Location, Location, Location," Context (February/March 2001): 72-73.

Mitchell, William J., "Capitalism's Melting Plots," joint review of A History of American Architecture, by Mark Gelernter, and The Creative Destruction of Manhattan, by Max Page. Times Higher Education Supplement (London), 26 January 2001, 30.

Mitchell, William J. Foreword. In Collaborative Design of the Glass Chair: Competence Building for Innovation, ed. Manuel Heitor and José Duarte. Lisboa, Portugal: 1st Press, 2001: 11.

Mitchell, William J., "The Revenge of Place." In Proceedings, Space Syntax, 3rd International Symposium, 01.1-01.6. Atlanta: Georgia Institute of Technology, 2001.

Mitchell, William J., "Roll Over Euclid: How Frank Gehry Designs and Builds." In Frank Gehry, Architect, ed. J.Fiona Ragheb, 352-363. New York: Guggenheim Museum Publications, 2001.

Mitchell, William J., “Use the internet to improve the quality of urban centers” (lecture transcription), Urban Environment Today, 11 October 2001, 14.

Mitchell, William J., "Where I'm @," Journal of the American Planning Association 67, no. 2 (Spring 2001): 144-145.

Mitchell, William J., "Vitruvius Redux: Formalized Design Synthesis in Architecture." In Formal Engineering Design Synthesis, ed. Erik K. Antonsson and Jonathan Cagan, 1-19. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Mitchell, William J., "Contenders." Afterword. In Louis I. Kahn: Unbuilt Masterworks, by Kent Larson, 225-228. New York: The Monacelli Press, 2000.

Mitchell, William J., "L’avènement des cyberquartiers," La Recherche, no. 337 supplement, (December 2000): 14-19.

Mitchell, William J., "De Homero a la Home Page: diseño de libros digitales," Debats, no. 69 (Spring/Summer 2000): 82-93.

Mitchell, William J., "Designing the Digital City." In Digital Cities: Technologies, Experiences, and Future Perspectives, ed. Toru Ishida and Katherine Isbister, 1-6. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 2000.

Mitchell, William J., "The Electronic Agora." Foreword. In Digital Places: Building Our City Of Bits, by Thomas A. Horan. Washington, D.C.: Urban Land Institute, 2000.

Mitchell, William J., "Square ideas," review of Nature in Design, by Alan Powers; Evolutionary Architecture: Nature as a Basis for Design, by Eugene Tsui; and Sci-Fi Architecture, ed. Maggie Toy. New Scientist (19 February 2000): 52.

Mitchell, William J., "The Fully Networked City: A Vision of Social and Economic Benefits," Siemens Research and Innovation (January 2000). [e-journal] <http://w4.siemens.de/Ful/en/archiv/zeitschrift/heft1_00/artikel03/index.html>

Mitchell, William J., "Imagining E-Topia." In Architecturally Speaking: Practices of Art, Architecture and the Everyday, ed. Alan Read, 297-303. London and New York: Routledge, 2000.

Mitchell, William J., "Information Technology." In Design Professionals and the Built Environment: An Introduction, eds. Paul Knox and Peter Ozolins, 69-74. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, 2000.

Mitchell, William J., "on Collaboration." In Perspecta, the Yale Architectural Journal 31: Reading Structures, 45. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2000.

Mitchell, William J., "A changing environment: the virtual world meets the physical world," arq (Architectural Research Quarterly) 3, no. 4 (1999): 303-305.

Mitchell, William J., "CAD: DOA @ Y2K? Rethinking the future of computer-aided design," Architecture Boston (Summer 1999): 24-26.

Mitchell, William J., "A Tale of Two Cities: Architecture and the Digital Revolution," Science 285, 6 August 1999, 839-841.

Mitchell, William J., "The Era of the E-topia: the right reactions to the digital revolution can produce lean and green cities," Architectural Record 187, no. 3 (March 1999): 35-36.

Mitchell, William J., "Replacing Place." In The Digital Dialectic New Essays on New Media, ed. Peter Lunenfeld, 112-128. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1999.

Mitchell, William J., "The Uses of Photorealism." Foreword. In Rendering Real and Imagined Buildings : The Art of Computer Modeling from the Palace of Kublai Khan to Le Corbusier's Villas [book and CD-ROM], by B.J. Novitski, 8-12. Gloucester, Mass.: Rockport Publishing, 1999.

Mitchell, William J., "Antitectonics: The Poetics of Virtuality." In The Virtual Dimension: Architecture, Representation, and Crash Culture, ed. John Beckmann, 205-217. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1998.

Mitchell, William J., "The New Economy of Presence," Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design 25th anniversary issue (October 1998): 20-22.

Mitchell, William J., "Articulate Design of Free-Form Structures," Proceedings of AI in Structural Engineering Seminar, Ascona, Switzerland, July 1998.

Mitchell, William J., "Speed, Impact, Change: An Introduction," thresholds 16 (Spring 1998): 6-8.

Mitchell, William J., "Cyborg Civics," The Harvard Architecture Review 10 (1998): 164-175.

Mitchell, William J., "Dematerialization, Demobilization, and Adaption." In Dimensions of Sustainability, ed. Andrew Scott, 6-11. London: E &FN Spon/Routledge, 1998.

Mitchell, William J., "Picture This. Build That. Algorithms, Machines and Architectural Performance," Harvard Design Magazine (Fall 1998): 8-11.

Mitchell, William J., "The Postphotographic Image." In Encyclopedia of Aesthetics vol. 4, ed. Michael Kelly, 50-54. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998.

Mitchell, William J., "Villes Numériques," Sociétés-Revue des Sciences Humaines et Sociales, no. 59 (1998): 33-40.

Mitchell, William J., "Do We Still Need Skyscrapers?" Scientific American (December 1997): 84-85.

Mitchell, William J., "Recombinant Architecture." In Intelligent Environments, ed. Peter Droege, 577-596. Amsterdam: Elsevier Science B.V., 1997.

Mitchell, William J., "The Virtual Studio," ACADIA Quarterly 16, no. 3 (1997): 6-12.

Mitchell, William J., and Oliver Strimpel, "There and Not There." In Beyond Calculation: The Next Fifty Years of Computing, eds. Peter J. Denning and Robert M. Metcalfe, 245-258. New York: Copernicus, 1997.

Mitchell, William J., "Agorà elettroniche," (with English translation) Casabella LX, no. 638 (October 1996): 72-82.

Mitchell, William J., "Architectural Archives in the Digital Era," The American Archivist 59, no. 2 (Spring 1996): 200-204.

Mitchell, William J., "Bound for Santa Monica Bay: An Introduction to the Work of Koning Eizenberg Architecture." Introduction. In Koning Eizenberg: Buildings, monograph, essays by Aaron Betsky and Julie Eizenberg. New York: Rizzoli International Publications, Inc., 1996.

Mitchell, William J., "L'era della connettività," Casabella LX, no. 637 (September 1996): 1.

Mitchell, William J., "Bricks versus Bits: Electronic Urbanism," Canadian Architect 40, no. 7 (July 1995): 24-26; German trans. in Stefan Iglhaut, Armin Medosch, and Florian Rotzer, eds., Stadt am Netz: Ansichten von Telepolis (Mannheim: Bollmann, 1996), 64-70; Japanese trans. in Journal of Architecture and Building Science 111, no. 1390 (June 1996): 31-32.

Mitchell, William J., "CAD as a Social Process." In The Global Design Studio: Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Computer Aided Design Futures, ed. Milton Tan and Robert Teh, 7-9. Singapore: Centre for Advanced Studies in Architecture of the National University of Singapore, 1995.

Mitchell, William J., "CD-Wright: Three for Your Computer," joint review of Frank Lloyd Wright: Presentation and Conceptual Drawings [CD-ROM], produced by Luna Imaging and the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation Archives; The Ultimate Frank Lloyd Wright [CD-ROM], produced by Microsoft; and The Frank Lloyd Wright Companion [CD-ROM], produced by Prairie Multimedia. Architectural Record 183, no. 8 (August 1995): 19.

Mitchell, William J., "The Future of the Virtual Design Studio." In Virtual Design Studio, ed. Jerzy Wojtowicz, 50-59. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 1995.

Mitchell, William J., "Soft Cities," Architectural Design 65, no. 11/12 (Nov.-Dec. 1995): 8-13.

Mitchell, William J., "Recombinant Architecture," Presence 4, no. 3 (Summer 1995): 223-253.

Mitchell, William J., "The Parable of the Pizza Parlor," Scientific American 272, no. 5 (May 1995): 92.

Shelden, Dennis, Seraj Bharwani, William Mitchell, and John Williams, "Requirements for Virtual Design Review," Architectural Research Quarterly 1, no. 2 (Winter 1995): 80-89.

Cagan, Jon, and William J. Mitchell, "A Grammatical Approach to Network Flow Synthesis." In Formal Design Methods for CAD (International Federation for Information Processing Transactions B-18), ed. John S. Gero and Enn Tyugu, 173-189. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 1994.

Cheng, Nancy, et al. incl. William J. Mitchell, "Place, Time and the Virtual Design Studio." In Reconnecting: ACADIA '94, ed. Anton C. Harfmann and Michael Fraser, 115-131. [n.p.]: Association for Computer-Aided Design in Architecture, 1994.

Mitchell, William J., "Artifact Grammars and Architectural Invention." In Automation-Based Creative Design, ed. A. Tzonis and I. White, 139-159. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 1994.

Mitchell, William J., "Building the Bitsphere," I.D. (Nov. 1994): 62-64.

Mitchell, William J., "New Presentation Methods in Today's Architecture," Networked CAD: The Wave of the future. Approach (Spring 1994): 2.

Mitchell, William J., "Creating a Virtual Palladio," Art New England (Feb./Mar. 1994): 24-25.

Mitchell, William J., "Remaking Making," Architecture California 16 (1994): 12-15.

Mitchell, William J., "Three Paradigms for Computer-Aided Design," Automation in Construction 3 (1994): 239-245. Reprinted in Knowledge-Based Computer-Aided Architectural Design, eds. G. Carrara and Y.E. Kalay, 379-388. Amsterdam: Elsevier Science Publishers B.V., 1994.

Mitchell, William J., "Virtual Villages: The Past and Future of Civitas," Architecture Australia 83:3 (May/June 1994): 68-69.

Mitchell, William J., "When Is Seeing Believing?" Scientific American 270, no. 2 (Feb. 1994): 44-49.

Mitchell, William J., "Will Manhattan become a bedroom suburb of the global village?" Newsday (Sunday, April 10, 1994): A37.

Cagan, Jon, and William J. Mitchell, "Optimally Directed Shape Generation by Shape Annealing," Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design 20 (1993): 5-12.

Mitchell, William J., "Cyberspace, Time, and Architecture," joint review of Cyberspace: First Steps, ed. Michael Benedikt; The Media Lab: Inventing the Future at MIT, by Stewart Brand; and Virtual Reality, by Howard Rheingold. Design Book Review (Winter 1993): 16-18.

Mitchell, William J., "The Electronic Agora (Cyberspace)," Architecture New York 3 (Nov./Dec. 1993): 30-33.

Mitchell, William J., "Franchising Architectural Styles," review of Possible Palladian Villas (Plus a Few Instructively Impossible Ones), by George Hersey and Richard Freedman. AA Files 26 (Autumn 1993): 97-99.

Mitchell, William J., "Virtual Architecture: Computers Are Challenging Notions of Space," Architecture (Dec. 1993): 39-43.

Mitchell, William J., "Architecture, Uses in." In Macmillan Encyclopedia of Computers v. 1, ed. Gary G. Bitter, 56-62. New York: Macmillan, 1992.

Mitchell, William J., "A Computational View of Design Creativity." In Modeling Creativity and Knowledge-Based Creative Design, eds. John S. Gero and Mary Lou Maher, 25-42. Hillsdale, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1992.

Mitchell, William J., Robin S. Liggett, Spiro Pollalis, and Milton Tan, "Integrating Shape Grammars and Design Analysis," in Gerhard N. Schmitt, ed., CADD Futures '91 (Braunschweig: Vieweg, 1992): 17-32.

Mitchell, William J., "The Logic of Architecture: Programming the Invention of Physical Artifacts," Logic Programming: Proceedings of the Joint International Conference and Symposium on Logic Programming in Cambridge, ed. Krzysztof Apt (Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1992): 831-846.

Wojtowicz, Jerzy, James Davidson, and William J. Mitchell, "Design as Digital Correspondence," ACADIA Conference Proceedings (1992): 89-101.

Liggett, Robin S., William J. Mitchell, and Milton Tan, "Multi-Level Analysis and Optimization of Design," in Yehuda Kalay, ed., Evaluating and Predicting Design Performance (New York: John Wiley, 1991): 251-269.

Mitchell, William J., "Functional Grammars: An Introduction." In Reality and Virtual Reality (ACADIA 1991), eds. Glenn Goldman & Michael Stephen Zdepski, 167-176. Troy, NY: ACADIA, 1991.

Mitchell, William J., "The Uses of Inconsistency in Design," in Yehuda Kalay, ed., Evaluating and Predicting Design Performance (New York: John Wiley, 1991).

Mitchell, William J., "The Design Studio of the Future." Afterword. In The Electronic Design Studio: Architectural Knowledge and Media in the Computer Era, ed. Malcolm McCullough, William J. Mitchell and Patrick Purcell, 479-494. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1990.

Mitchell, William J., "A New Agenda for Computer-Aided Design." Introduction. In The Electronic Design Studio: Architectural Knowledge and Media in the Computer Era, ed. Malcolm McCullough, William J. Mitchell and Patrick Purcell, 1-16. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1990.

Mitchell, William J., Robin S, Liggett, and Milton Tan, "Top-Down Knowledge-Based Design." In The Electronic Design Studio: Architectural Knowledge and Media in the Computer Era, eds. Malcolm McCullough, William J. Mitchell and Patrick Purcell, 137-148. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1990.

Mitchell, William J., "Architecture and the Second Industrial Revolution," Harvard Architecture Review 7 (1989): 166-175.

Mitchell, William J., "The Death of Drawing," UCLA Architecture Journal 2 (1989): 64-69.

Mitchell, William J., "Online Design: The Accessibility and Inevitability of Computer-Aided Design in Architecture," Inland Architecture 32, no. 6 (Nov.-Dec. 1988): 46-51.

Mitchell, William J., "Reasoning about Form and Function." In Computability of Design, ed. Yehuda E. Kalay, 89-97. New York: John Wiley, 1987.

Mitchell, William J., "Color Transformations in Computer-Aided Design," Design Computing 1, no. 1 (1986): 20-28.

Mitchell, William J., "Editorial: Computers in Design Teaching," Design Computing 1, special issue (1986): 237.

Mitchell, William J., "Formal representations: a foundation for computer-aided architectural design," Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design Vol. 13 (1986): 133-162.

Mitchell, William J., "The Last Roundup," Places 3, no. 4 (1986): 20-23.

Mitchell, William J., "Solid Modeling and Volumetric Composition in Architecture," Design Computing 1, no. 2 (1986): 123-135.

Mitchell, William J., and Antony Radford, "Architectural Computing: Till Death Do Us Part," Architecture Australia 75, no. 3 (1986): 36-37.

Mitchell, William J., "Architects' Encounters with Computers," Computer/Law Journal 6:2 (1985): 357-359.

Mitchell, William J., "Complexity and Composition," Metropolis 5 (September 1985): 32-34.

Mitchell, William J., "Computing the Forms of Things Unknown," Arts and Architecture 3:1 (1984): 48-51, 71, 77.

Mitchell, William J., "What was Computer-Aided Design?" Progressive Architecture 65, no. 5 (1984): 61-63.

Liggett, Robin S., and William J. Mitchell, "Interactive Graphic Floor Plan Layout Method," Computer-Aided Design 13, no. 5 (1981): 289-298.

Liggett, Robin S., and William J. Mitchell, "Optimal Space Planning in Practice," Computer-Aided Design 13, no. 5 (1981): 277-288.

Stiny, George, and William J. Mitchell, "The Grammar of Paradise: On the Generation of Mughul Gardens," Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design 7, no. 2 (1980): 209-226.

Mitchell, William J., "Synthesis with Style," in International Conference on the Application of Computers in Architecture, Building Design, and Urban Design in Middlesex, edited by Pinner, Online Publications (1979): 119-134.

Stiny, George, and William J. Mitchell, "Counting Palladian Plans," Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design 5, no. 2 (1978): 189-198.

Stiny, George, and William J. Mitchell, "A Generalized Approach to the Spatial Synthesis Problem." In Transactions of the Martin Centre for Architectural and Urban Studies 3, ed. Philip Steadman and Janet Owers, 55-75. Cambridge: Woodhead-Faulkner for the Martin Centre, 1978.

Stiny, George, and William J. Mitchell, "The Palladian Grammar," Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design 5:1 (1978): 5-18.

Mitchell, William J., Philip Steadman, and Robin S. Liggett, "Synthesis and Optimization of Small Rectangular Floor Plans," Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design 3, no. 1 (1976): 37-70.

Mitchell, William J., “Vitruvius Computatus.” In Models and Systems in Architecture and Building, ed. Dean Hawkes, 53-59. Hornby, Lancaster: The Construction Press, 1975.

Mitchell, William J., “Automated Generation of Minimum Energy Cost Building Designs: A Response of Computer-Aided Design.” In Responding to Social Change, ed. Basil Honikman, 117-132. Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania: Dowden, Hutchinson & Ross, Inc., 1975.

Mitchell, William J., “Computer-Aided Design and the Architecture Student in the United States,” NMG-GRS Journal: Design Research and Methods 8, no 4 (1974), 210-217.

Mitchell, William J., “Techniques of Automated Design in Architecture: A Survey and Evaluation,” Computers and Urban Society 1, no. 1 (1974).–+

Mitchell, William J. and Robert L. Dillon, “A Polyomino Assembly Procedure for Architectural Floor Planning.” In Environmental Design: Research and Practice. Proceedings of the EDRA 3/AR 8 Conference, ed. William J. Mitchell, 1-12. LA: California: School of Architecture and Urban Planning, UCLA., 1972.