Sanford Kwinter

Sanford Kwinter is a Canadian-born, New York-based writer and architectural theorist, and a co-founder of Zone Books publishers.[1] Kwinter currently serves as Professor of Theory and Criticism at the Pratt Institute.[2] He formerly served as an associate professor at Rice University in Houston,[3] Texas, and has also taught at MIT, Columbia University and Cornell University and at Harvard University Graduate School of Design.

Sanford Kwinter
NationalityCanadian
Alma materColumbia University

Having received a doctorate in comparative literature from Columbia University,[4] Kwinter lectured at Harvard University, the University of Applied Arts Vienna (Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien),[5] the Berlage Institute in Rotterdam,[6] the Architectural Association in London and the Städelschule in Frankfurt.[7] Over the past twenty years, his publications have pioneered new ideas in art, architecture, science and the humanities.[6] He has written widely on philosophical issues related to design, architecture, and urbanism, and was involved in the series of conferences and publications convened by ANY magazine between 1991 and 2000.[1]


Books
  • ZONE 1/2: The Contemporary City (1986) MIT Press.
  • ZONE 6: Incorporations (1992) MIT Press.
  • Architectures of Time: Toward a Theory of the Event in Modernist Culture (2001) MIT Press. ISBN 0-262-61181-3
  • Far from Equilibrium: Essays on Technology and Design Culture (2008) Actar Press. ISBN 84-96540-64-2
  • Requiem: For the City at the End of the Millennium (2010) Actar Press. ISBN 978-84-92861-20-0
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References
  1. "Sanford Kwinter - The European Graduate School". egs.edu. Retrieved 2017-12-17.
  2. "Pratt Institute". www.pratt.edu. Retrieved 2017-12-17.
  3. "Sanford Kwinter". MIT Press. Retrieved 2017-12-17.
  4. "Sanford Kwinter". University of Toronto. Retrieved 2017-12-18.
  5. "IoA Institute of Architecture: Organisation / People / Sanford Kwinter". i-o-a.at. Retrieved 2017-12-17.
  6. "Sanford Kwinter / Persons / The Berlage". www.theberlage.nl. 2017-12-17. Retrieved 2017-12-17.
  7. "SAC - Sanford Kwinter". sac.staedelschule.de. Retrieved 2017-12-17.
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