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
Nationality	Canadian
Alma mater	Columbia 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]^{[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

• 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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• Städelschule Architecture Class Faculty 2008
• The archives for Zone Books are held at Columbia University. Rare Book & Manuscript Library.