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James Sanders

James Sanders & Associates

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Fellow since 2012

James Sanders, AIA, is an internationally recognized architect, author, and filmmaker, whose work has garnered him a Guggenheim Fellowship and Emmy Award, among other honors. With Ric Burns, he conceived and wrote the award-winning eight-part public television series, New York: A Documentary Film, and its companion volume, New York: An Illustrated History. His landmark study of the city and film, Celluloid Skyline, was hailed by Jane Jacobs as a “marvelous—miraculous—book,” and in 2007 became a major multimedia exhibit in Grand Central Terminal, sponsored by TCM. His design and research firm, James Sanders Studio, based in New York, has developed architecture, urban design, exhibition, media, film, and book projects for such clients as New York University, The Howard Hughes Corporations, André Balazs Properties, and the Museum of the City of New York. The firm’s projects have been featured in the New York Times, the New Yorker, the Los Angeles Times, Architect’s Newspaper, Interiors, and Architectural Digest. Mr. Sanders is a graduate of Columbia College and Columbia’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, and attended the MIT Graduate School of Architecture + Planning. He sits on the Board of Directors of the Skyscraper Museum and is a Fellow of the Urban Design Forum. In 2006 he received a Guggenheim Fellowship for research in the experience of cities.