Sanford Kwinter
Sanford Kwinter | |
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Nationality | Canadian |
Alma mater | Columbia University |
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 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and at Harvard University Graduate School of Design.
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][citation needed] 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
[edit]- 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
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Sanford Kwinter - The European Graduate School". egs.edu. Retrieved 2017-12-17.
- ^ "Pratt Institute". www.pratt.edu. Retrieved 2017-12-17.
- ^ "Sanford Kwinter". MIT Press. Retrieved 2017-12-17.
- ^ "Sanford Kwinter". University of Toronto. Retrieved 2017-12-18.
- ^ "IoA Institute of Architecture: Organisation / People / Sanford Kwinter". i-o-a.at. Retrieved 2017-12-17.
- ^ a b "Sanford Kwinter / Persons / The Berlage". www.theberlage.nl. 2017-12-17. Retrieved 2017-12-17.
- ^ "SAC - Sanford Kwinter". sac.staedelschule.de. Retrieved 2017-12-17.