{{Infobox writer | name = Sanford Kwinter | image = Sanford Kwinter 03.jpg | 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.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://egs.edu/faculty/sanford-kwinter|title=Sanford Kwinter - The European Graduate School|website=egs.edu|language=en|access-date=2017-12-17}}</ref> Kwinter currently serves as Professor of Theory and Criticism at the Pratt Institute.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.pratt.edu/faculty_and_staff/bio/?id=skwinter|title=Pratt Institute|website=www.pratt.edu|language=en|access-date=2017-12-17}}</ref> He formerly served as an associate professor at Rice University in Houston,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://mitpress.mit.edu/authors/sanford-kwinter|title=Sanford Kwinter|website=MIT Press|language=en-US|access-date=2017-12-17}}</ref> 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,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.daniels.utoronto.ca/events/2014/03/07/sanford-kwinter|title=Sanford Kwinter|website=University of Toronto|access-date=2017-12-18|archive-date=2017-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171017201741/https://www.daniels.utoronto.ca/events/2014/03/07/sanford-kwinter|url-status=dead}}</ref> Kwinter lectured at Harvard University, the University of Applied Arts Vienna (''Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien''),<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://i-o-a.at/organisation/people/sanford-kwinter/|title=IoA Institute of Architecture: Organisation / People / Sanford Kwinter|website=i-o-a.at|access-date=2017-12-17|archive-date=2017-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171017202234/http://i-o-a.at/organisation/people/sanford-kwinter/|url-status=dead}}</ref> the Berlage Institute in Rotterdam,<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=http://www.theberlage.nl/persons/sanford_kwinter|title=Sanford Kwinter / Persons / The Berlage|date=2017-12-17|website=www.theberlage.nl|language=en|access-date=2017-12-17|archive-date=2018-09-11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180911021222/http://www.theberlage.nl/persons/sanford_kwinter|url-status=dead}}</ref> the Architectural Association in London and the Städelschule in Frankfurt.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://sac.staedelschule.de/en/events/sanford-kwinter-1|title=SAC - Sanford Kwinter|website=sac.staedelschule.de|language=en|access-date=2017-12-17}}</ref> Over the past twenty years, his publications have pioneered new ideas in art, architecture, science and the humanities.<ref name=":1" />{{citation needed|date=September 2017}} 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.<ref name=":0" />
== 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}}
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== {{Commons category|Sanford Kwinter}} *[http://www.staedelschule.de/architecture/79.html Städelschule Architecture Class Faculty 2008] *[http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/archival/collections/ldpd_10080831/ The archives for Zone Books are held at Columbia University. Rare Book & Manuscript Library.]
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