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Presented as part of CCA's Architecture Lecture Series
Monday, April 4, 2011, 7–9 pm
Timken Lecture Hall, San Francisco campus
Sanford Kwinter is a professor of architectural theory and criticism at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. He earned his PhD from Columbia University. He has taught at MIT, Columbia University, and Rice University.
He is also a writer and editor. He cofounded and edited the journal Zone and Zone Books for 20 years. He has written widely on philosophical issues of design, architecture, and urbanism and was an editorial member of the ANY conferences and publications as well as of Assemblage. Hs published books include Architectures of Time: Towards a Theory of the Event in Modernist Culture, Far From Equilibrium: Essays on Technology and Design Culture, and Requiem: For the City at the Turn of the Millennium. He is currently at work on a book about Africa and the origin of form.
The 2010–11 Architecture Lecture Series is funded by Grants for the Arts / San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund; HDR Architecture; Hellmuth, Obata & Kassabaum, Inc.; Pfau Long Architecture; ROMA Design Group; Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP; SmithGroup; WRNS Studio; Jensen Architects; Leddy Maytum Stacy Architects; BraytonHughes Design Studios; Cass Calder Smith; Fennie + Mehl Architects; GCI, Inc.; Levy Design Partners; SRG Partnership; Ratcliff; Ryan Associates; BIOS Design Collective; and Andrea Cochran.
