Sanford Kwinter - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

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

Rice University

William Marsh Rice University, commonly referred to as Rice University or Rice, is a private research university located on a heavily wooded campus in Houston, Texas, United States...

in Houston, Texas, and has also taught at MIT, Columbia University

Columbia University

Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...

and Cornell University

Cornell University

Cornell University is an Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York, United States. It is a private land-grant university, receiving annual funding from the State of New York for certain educational missions...

. Having received a doctorate in comparative literature

Comparative literature

Comparative literature is an academic field dealing with the literature of two or more different linguistic, cultural or national groups...

from Columbia University, Kwinter lectured at Harvard University

Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...

, the University of Applied Arts Vienna

University of Applied Arts Vienna

The University of Applied Arts Vienna is an institution of higher education in Vienna, the capital of Austria. It has had university status since 1970.-History:...

(Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien), the Berlage Institute

Berlage Institute

The Berlage Institute was founded in 1990 as an independent postgraduate school of architecture in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Named after the Dutch architect Hendrik Petrus Berlage, the Berlage has an international student population and teaching staff....

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

ANY (magazine)

This influential architectural journal was published by the ANYone Corporation for over 7 years. A total of 27 issues were published.The scholarly magazine examined architecture and its relation to other disciplines, as well as its contemporary role in culture...

between 1991 and 2000.

Kwinter has a Ph.D. from Columbia University

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

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