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Sanford Kwinter
Professor Department of Architecture |
Curriculum Vitae
| EDUCATION | |
| 1989 | Ph.D., Columbia University |
| 1982 | M.Phil., Columbia University |
| 1979 | M.A., Columbia University |
| 1978 | D.E.A., Université de Paris |
| 1977 | B.A., University of Waterloo/ University of Toronto |
TEACHING |
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| 2009- | Professor of Architectural Theory and Criticism, Department of Architecture, Harvard Graduate School of Design |
| 2008-2009 | Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Architecture, Harvard Graduate School of Design |
| 1993-2008 | Rice University |
| 2007 | Cornell University |
| 2005-2007 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| 2004 | University of Pennsylvania |
| 1991, 1993 2001-2003, 2008 |
Visiting Lecturer, Harvard University, Graduate School of Design |
| 1998, 2000 | Columbia University |
| 1993-1995 | Architectural Association, London |
| 1991 | Ohio State University, School of Architecture |
| 1988-1990 | Whitney Independent Studies Program, New York |
| 1985-1988 | New School of Social Research, New York |
| 1981-1984 | Dept. of French and Romance Philology, Columbia University, N.Y. |
HONORS AND AWARDS |
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| 2007 | Graham Foundation Publications grant, Heinz und Gisela Friedrich Stiftung Professor, Stadelschule, Frankfurt |
| 2001 | Nominee, “Wired Author of the Year”, WIRED Magazine RAVE Awards 2001 |
| Competition Selectee, Motion Floor Project, Mori Art Center, Tokyo, Japan | |
| 1996 | Will and Nan Clarkson Chair, SUNY, Buffalo |
| 1993-1995 | Craig Francis Cullinan Chair, Rice University |
| 1992 | Herbert S. Greenwald Chair, University of Illinois-Chicago |
| 1990 | Visiting Scholar, Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities |
| 1987 | Research and Development Fellowship, Canada Arts Council, Exhibition: Future Fossils |
| 1985 | Book Fellowship (non-fiction category), Canada Arts Council, Book: Territory and Technique |
| 1982 | M.Phil. Distinction, Columbia Univ., N.Y. |
| 1981-1982 | Doctoral Fellowship, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada |
| 1980-1981 | Doctoral Fellowship, S.S.H.R.C. |
| 1979-1980 | President's Fellow, Columbia University Doctoral Fellowship, S.S.H.R.C. |
| 1977 | High distinction, University of Waterloo |
| 1973 | Fellowship, York University, Toronto, Canada |
PUBLICATIONS |
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| Books | |
| forthcoming | New Babylons: Urbanism at the Turn of the Millennium, Routledge |
| Soft Systems | |
| 2007 | Far From Equilibrium: Essays on Technology and Design Culture, ACTAR Press, Barcelona and New York |
| 2001 | Architectures of Time: Toward a Theory of the Event in Modernist Culture, MIT Press, Cambridge |
| Mutations, with Rem Koolhaas and Stefano Boeri, Actar, Barcelona, 2001. French and Spanish Translations: Mutations, Actar, Barcelona, 2001. Mutaciones, Actar, Barcelona, 2001. |
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| Mutations, (different book), Tokyo, Japan | |
| Edited Books | |
| 1999 | Pandemonium: The Rise of Predatory Locales in the Postwar World, Princeton Architectural Press |
| 1996 | Rem Koolhaas: Conversations with Students, (Flying the Bullet or When Did the Future Begin?) Princeton Arch. Press |
| 1992 | ZONE 6: Incorporations, editor (with J. Crary), Zone Books, New York/ MIT Press, Cambridge. Spanish translation: Incorporaciones, Ediciones Catedra, Madrid, 1996. |
| 1986 | ZONE 1/2 The Contemporary City, editor (with M. Feher), Zone Books, New York/MIT Press, Cambridge |
| Articles | |
| 2008 | “The Agony and the Ecstasy,” Parametrics, VERB Books, Actar, New York and Barcelona. (with Jason Payne) |
| “Bowery Ma,” in The New Museum, New York. | |
| “Eisenman’s Lost Text,” in 11+L, Peter Eisenman, Pre-Textos de Arquitectura, Barcelona. | |
| 2007 | “The Pneumatic Universe of Coop Himmelblau”, BMW Welt, Vienna. |
| “Notes on Abomination,” LOG, NYC | |
| “Interview”, PRINZEISENBETON, Universitat der Angewandte Kunst | |
| “Interview”, Science and Architecture, Manifold, Houston | |
| “Interview”, Stadelschule Website, The Space of Communication | |
| 2006 | “The Garden and the Veil,” in Inside/Outside: Petra Blaisse, NAI Publishers |
| “Architecture’s Scientific Revolution,” SEED Magazine, Jan.-Feb. 2006, New York City | |
| 2005 | “Knowledge Activism,” Thirty-Two, no. 7, New York |
| “Seven,” Tooling, Aranda/Lasch, Pamphlet Architecture no. 27, Princeton Architectural Press, New York | |
| “The Judo of Cold Combustion,” Atlas of Novel Tectonics, Jesse Reiser and Nanoko Umemoto, Princeton Architectural Press, New York | |
| “Confessions of an Organicist,” LOG 5, New York, Spring | |
| “Beat Wissenschaft,” Lebendige Zeit, Max Planck Institute/Kulturverlag Kadmos, Berlin | |
| 2004 | “Interview,” TEXFILES 01, (University of Texas Arlington) |
| “Dear Harvard Design Magazine. . .,” (wiith Jeffrey Kipnis, Letter), Harvard Design Magazine, No. 20, Spring | |
| “City War” in 32 Magazine, New York and Beijing, Volume 4 | |
| “J’accuse,” PRAXIS, Cambridge, Winter, Reprinted in ARCH+, Berlin. | |
| “Who’s Afraid of Formalism,” Phylogenesis,, FOA, Actar, Barcelona | |
| “Interview,” (Noriko Takiguch)i, Rem Koolhaas/OMA, TOTO, Tokyo | |
| “Four Arguments for the Elimination of Architecture (Long Live Architecture)”, The State of Architecture at the Beginning of the 21st Century, Monacelli Press | |
| “Concepts: the Architecture of Hope,” Harvard Design Magazine, No. 19, Fall 2003/Winter 2004. | |
| “Transistors,” in Michael Bell: Space Replaces Us, Monacelli Press, New York | |
| 2003 | “Kaddish for an Architecture Not Born,” Bookforum, New York, Winter |
| “The Computational Fallacy,” Denatured: Thresholds 26, MIT, Cambridge | |
| “There is no Post-Critical (only Good and Bad Criticism),” PRAXIS, Cambridge | |
| “Salience,” in Architecture Institute of Japan Journal | |
| “Bush Space” Wired Magazine, April | |
| “When Did You Stop Beating Your Wife?” in HUNCH 6/7, Rotterdam, NL, Summer | |
| 2002 | “Loos Canon” (review of “Design and Crime” by Hal Foster) Bookforum, New York, December |
| American Design? “The New Territories,” in PRAXIS 4, Cambridge, MA | |
| “The American Territory”, ILLUME, Tokyo Electric Power Company, Tokyo, Japan | |
| “Eyes in the Heat: Speculations on the Predatory Foundations of Perception,” Chaque matin, je me sens different; Chaque soir, je me sens le même, Olafur Eliasson, Museum of Modern Art of the City of Paris | |
| “The Art and Science of Predation,” in Bridging the Gap?, Kitakyushu Museum of Contemporary Art, Kitakyushu, Japan | |
| “Hydraulic Vision,” Mood River, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus | |
| “What has Changed? 1986-2001” in New Urban Conditions, Tokyo | |
| “The Sendai Solid ,” Sendai Mediatheque, CASE books, Harvard/Prestel | |
| 2001 | “Discussion with Peter Eisenman,” Yale Journal of Architecture |
| “Saint Architect of Sodom,” Vito Acconci Acts of Architecture: 1980-2000, Baltimore Museum of Art | |
| “Design Machines are Cybernetic Machines (Or they are no Machines at all),” in Immanence and Demise | |
| “The Geometry of Cinders,” The Berlin Holocaust Memorial | |
| 2000 | "American Noir", in Mutations , Actar, Barcelona, 2000. Translations: French, Spanish, Japanese |
| ”Contract with America,” Translations: French, Spanish, Japanese | |
| “Generica,” Translations: French, Spanish, Japanese | |
| “Houston™,”
Translations: French, Spanish, Japanese Reprinted in: The Dawn at My Back, Carroll Blue, University of Texas Press, Austin, 2003. |
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| “Television: the Infrasructural Revolution,” Translations: French, Spanish, Japanese | |
| "Urbanism: An Archivist’s Art?," Translations: French, Spanish, Japanese | |
| “Send/Receive”, Mutations, Actar, Barcelona | |
| “The Gay Science (What is Life?),” introduction to Bruce Mau, Life Style, Phaidon Press, London | |
| "How I learned to Stop Worrying and Still Not Quite Love the Bomb," Newsline, Spring, New York. | |
| “Beaubourg: Necessité et Trahison,” in L’Architecture Instantanée, Centre Pompidou,Paris | |
| 1999 | "Le Trahison des Clercs (and other Travesties of the Modern),” ANY 24, 1999. German translations: ARCH+, No. 144, Berlin 1999, ARCH+, No. 146, Berlin 1999. Swedish translation: Magasin för Modern Arkitektur, Stockholm |
| ”War in Peace,” in Pandemonium: The Rise of Predatory Locales in the Postwar World, Princeton Architectural Press, New York | |
| ”Introduction,” to “An Incomplete Manifesto for Growth,” I.D. Magazine, March | |
| 1998 | “The Genealogy of Models: The Hammer and the Song,” ANY 23 |
| "African Genesis," Assemblage 36, Cambridge, MA | |
| ”Leap in the Void: A New Organon?,” ANYhow | |
| "The Hammer and the Song", OASE, Rotterdam | |
| 1997 | "Mach One (and Other Mystic Visitations)," ANY 21 , New York |
| "Infrared, the Treason of Language and the Failure of the Geometric Imagination," ANY 19/20 | |
| "A Materialism of the Incorporeal," Documents 6, Columbia University, New York, Fall | |
| "Oscillocosmocontinuum," UCLA Newsletter, Los Angeles | |
| "Fuller Themselves," ANY 17, New York | |
| "The Doctrine of Misplaced Concreteness, and the American 'Avant-garde,'" in Autonomy and Ideology: Positioning an Architectural Avantgarde in North America, 1923-1949, ed. Robert Somol, Monacelli Press, New York | |
| 1996 | "White Out," ANY 16, New York |
| "Can One Go Beyond Piranesi?: Liner Notes for a Building Revisited," Eleven Authors in Search of a Building, Monacelli Press, New York | |
| "Mourning the Future," ANY15 | |
| "Playboys of the Western World," ANY 13 | |
| "Flying the Bullet, or When Did the Future Begin?" Rem Koolhaas, Conversation with Students, Architecture at Rice. German translation: ARCH+ 130, Berlin, 1996 Japanese translation: Kenchiku Bunka, Vol. 53, No. 619, Tokyo, May 1998 French translation: Forthcoming Portuguese translation: Editorial Gustavo Gili, 2002 Spanish translation: Editorial Gustavo Gili, 2002 Korean translation: 2002 |
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| 1995 | "Playing by Ear," ANY 12, October 1995. British Edition: "Play Time," in Games of Architecture, Architectural Design, April 1996 |
| "Politics and Pastoralism," Assemblage 27 | |
| "Presentation," ANYPlace, MIT Press, Cambridge | |
| "What's Eating Charles Gwathmey?", ANY 11, August | |
| "The Eisenman Wave," in Eisenman Architects, Images Publishing Co., Melbourne | |
| "Virtual City, or the Wiring and Waning of the World," Assemblage 29. German translation: ARCH+ 128, Berlin, September 1995. Italian translation: “La Citta virtuale: Cablaggio e declino del mondo, Casabella 630-631, Milan, January-February, 1996. |
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| "The New Docility and its Discontents," Newsline, Winter | |
| "The Cruelty of Numbers," ANY 10, February | |
| "Formal, Informal and the Jewish Question," Progressive Architecture, February | |
| 1994 | "New Babylons: Urbanism at the end of the Millenium," Assemblage 25 |
| "The Building, the Book and the New Pastoralism," ANY 9, November | |
| "Who's Afraid of Formalism?," ANY 7/8, August | |
| "The Complex and the Singular," ANYWAY, Rizzoli, 1994. German translation: ARCH+, 119-20, Berlin. architektur_theorie.doc: texte seite 1960, ed. Gerd de Bruyn and Stephan Truby, Birkhauser, Basle, 2003. |
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| "The Buffalo and the Bird," Tools and Technology, Body and World: A Stucturally Dynamic Pedestrian Bridge, John Breshears, Architecture at Rice 32. German translation: ARCH+, December 1994 |
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| "Architecture and the Technologies of Life," AA Files, June American reprint: Columbia Documents 5, Columbia University, 1996 |
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| "Agitation, Propaganda and Ethics," L.A. Experiments, Rizzoli | |
| "Mies and Movement: Military Logistics and Molecular Regimes," in The Presence of Mies, ed. Detlef Mertins, Princeton Architectural Press | |
| 1993 | "Maxwell's Demons and Eisenman's Conventions: Challenge Match for the 'Information' Age," A+U, September |
| "Soft Systems," in Culture Lab, ed. Brian Boigon, Princeton Architectural Press | |
| "Landscapes of Change: Boccioni's 'Stati d'animo' as a General Theory of Models," Assemblage 19, 1993. British reprint: "'Quelli che partono' as a General Theory of Models" in A.D. Journal of Philosophy and the Visual Arts, London,1993. German translation: ARCH+, no. 119-20, Berlin, 1993 |
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| 1992 | "Introduction," ZONE 6 Incorporations, ed. Jonathan Crary and Sanford Kwinter, Zone Books, New York |
| "The Reinvention of Geometry: Rem Koolhaas's Recent Urban Projects," Assemblage 18. German translation: ARCH+, no. , Berlin, 1993 |
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| "On Vitalism and the Virtual," in Pratt Journal of Architecture, New York | |
| "Emergence, or the Artificial Life of Space," in ANYWHERE, Rizzoli Publications, New York. German translation: ARCH+, December 1994 |
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| 1991 | "The Genius of Matter: Eisenman's Cincinatti Project," Peter Eisenman and Frank Gehry, Rizzoli Publications, 1991. French translation: Architecture d'aujourd'hui, March, 1992. German translation: ARCH + 119-20. British Reprint: Re:Working Eisenman, Academy Editions |
| "Perpetuum Mobile: Transformations of Death from Point to Line and Event," The Interrupted Life, Rizzoli/New Museum | |
| "Cyber Agonistes," Newsline, Columbia University, Summer 1991. Spanish Translation: Architectura Viva, Fall 1991. |
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| "Manual for the Alphabetical City: A pedagogical text," (with B. Boigon), Assemblage 15 | |
| 1990 | "The Caged Body" Newsline, Columbia University, May |
| 1989 | "Drawing as Eros and Memory," Steel Notes, National Gallery of Canada, 1989 (catalogue) |
| "Delirium Praecox" in The New Urban Landscape, Rizzoli Publications | |
| 1986 | "Foreword," (with M. Feher) in ZONE 1/2 The Contemporary City, Zone Books, New York |
| "La Città Nuova: Modernity and Continuity," in ZONE 1/2 The Contemporary City, Zone Books, New York, 1986. Japanese translations: Post-Postmodern City, Tokyo, 1988. Sexual City, Urban Design Research Inc., Tokyo, 1989 Futurism 1909-1944, Centro Culturale Arte Contemporanea Italia-Giappone, Tokyo, 1992 |
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| 1985 | "The Pragmatics of Turbulence," in Arts, Dec. |
| "Integrated City," Change International, Paris, Spring | |
| "David Salle: Un peintre au partitif," L'autre Journal, Paris, Feb. | |
| "Vera Lehndorff and Holger Trülzsch" (Review)-- Art in America, July | |
| "TODT" (Review) Art in America, Feb. | |
| 1984 | Pragmatique des turbulences: Les nouvelles lignes de Bernar Venet, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris. (Catalogue) |
| "Lee Jaffe" (Review) Art in America, March | |
| "Donald Lipski" (Review) Art in America, January | |
| 1983 | "Susan Rothenberg" (Review) Flash Art, Summer |
| "Michael Goldberg" (Review)-- Art in America, Summer | |
| "Daniel Buren" (Review)-- Art in America, May | |
| "Alice Aycock" (Review) Art in America, Apr. | |
| "Ted Stamm" (Review) Art in America, January | |
| 1981 | "Qu'est-ce qu'une maison?," in Werke/Archithese, 1981, Switzerland. English translation: Oppositions, New York |
| 1980 | "The Production of Space in Picture and Text," in Papers on Romance, July 1980 |
| 1978 | "Going Beyond the Limit: Foucault's Philosophy of Language," in Punto Y Coma, Fall 1978, Madrid |
EDITORSHIPS |
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| Co-founder and editor of ZONE, a serial publication of philosophy and contemporary culture, distributed by MIT Press; to 2001 | |
| Editor, Zone Books, a collection of 20th century documents in philosophy, ethnology, history; to 2001 | |
| Editor, Swerve Editions, a collection of works on contemporary cultural and political subjects | |
| Editorial Boards: | |
| Assemblage, MIT Press; to 2001 APPENDX, Harvard University (1992-94) ANY, Rizzoli Publications; to 2001 (Section: "Far From Equilibrium"} Architecture at Rice: Book series, Princeton Architectural Press |
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LANGUAGES |
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| English, French, German, Italian, Hebrew | |