Sanford Kwinter

Sanford Kwinter
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]