Sandford Kwinter

Summer Residencies and Programs: Sanford Kwinter

Sanford Kwinter is a Canadian architectural theorist, writer, and editor. He is a professor of architecture at The European Graduate School / EGS, at The School of Architecture at Pratt Institute, New York, and at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, where he heads the Institute for Theory and History of Architecture.   After undergraduate studies at the Universities of Waterloo and Toronto, Kwinter received his DEA––Le Diplôme d'Études Approfondies (Diploma of Advanced Studies)––from the Université de Paris. He then obtained his MA (1979), his MPhil (1982), and his PhD (1989) at Columbia University in Comparative Literature with a dissertation entitled Immanence and Event in Early Modernist Culture.   Kwinter co-founded the independent publishing company Zone Books with designer Bruce Mau, and theorist Jonathan Crary. The publishing house also produced the journal of the same name––ZONE. Kwinter remained editor of both the journal and books until 2001. He was also, until 2001, an editorial member and contributor of the bimonthly journal ANY.   Now spanning almost four decades, Kwinter's publishing career has covered such topics and fields as architecture, science, design, technology, and the humanities. He has contributed numerous essays and articles to a vast number of periodicals including: Art in America, L'autre Journal, Harvard Design Magazine, Yale Journal of Architecture, and PRAXIS, among others. 

June 01, 2018
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June 02, 2018
Lectures
Summer Residencies and Programs: Sanford Kwinter
Open to the Public
June 01, 2018 -
June 02, 2018
2018-06-01 19:30 2018-06-02 20:45
Lectures
Summer Residencies and Programs: Sanford Kwinter
The Forum
9045 Lincoln Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90045
Open to the Public