Sanford Kwinter

Sanford Kwinter is a Canada-born, New York-based writer and world-renowned architectural theorist, and a co-founder of the influential Zone Books publishers. Kwinter currently serves as Professor of Theory and Criticism at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. He formerly served as an associate professor at Rice University in Houston, Texas, and has also taught at MIT, Columbia University and Cornell University and is an Adjunct Professor at the Pratt Institute Graduate School of Architecture and Urban Design. Having received a doctorate in comparative literature from Columbia University, Kwinter lectured at Harvard University, the University of Applied Arts Vienna (Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien), the Berlage Institute in Rotterdam, the Architectural Association in London and the Staedelschule in Frankfurt. Over the past twenty years, his publications have pioneered new ideas in art, architecture, science and the humanities. 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.

Kwinter has a Ph.D. from Columbia University.

Books

• ZONE 1/2: The Contemporary City (1986) MIT Press.
• ZONE 6: Incorporations (1992) MIT Press.
• Rem Koolhaas: Conversations with Students (1996) Princeton Architectural Press. ISBN 1885232020
• 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 8496540642
• Requiem: For the City at the End of the Millennium (2010) Actar Press. ISBN 978-8492861200

External links

• Sanford Kwinter Faculty Profile at Harvard Graduate School of Design
• Pratt Institute Graduate Architecture and Urban Design, Faculty Profile: Sanford Kwinter
• Faculty listing at Rice University
• The Ends of the Parabola. Kevin Pratt on Sanford Kwinter's Far From Equilibrium
• The Big Book of Chairman Mau. (Review) Source: Art Journal. Publication Date: 22-JUN-2001
• Städelschule Architecture Class Faculty 2008