Michael is Principal of the Michael Sorkin Studio, a global design practice working at all scales with a special interest in the city and green architecture, President and founder of Terreform, a non-profit institute dedicated to research into the forms and practices of just and sustainable urbanism, President of the American Institute for Urban Design, and Distinguished Professor of Architecture and Director of the Graduate Program in Urban Design at The City College of New York. He is the author or editor of more than 15 books on architecture and urbanism.

Michael is familiar with Queensland, having previously visited as keynote speaker to the Gold Coast’s inaugural 2007 International Urban Design Conference and State Library of Queensland’s 2009 Nielsen Design Lecture.