James Sanders (architect)

James Sanders (born 11 June 1955) is an architect, author, and filmmaker in New York City, whose work has garnered him a Guggenheim Fellowship and an Emmy Award, among other honors.

James Sanders, AIA, is a graduate of Columbia College (where he received the 1976 Chanler Prize in Urban History) and Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, and attended the MIT School of Architecture + Planning. Since 1985 he has been principal of James Sanders + Associates, an architecture, design and research studio located in New York City. He received a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship (Fellows Page, 2006) in 2006 for research on the experience of cities, and grants and fellowships from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Visual Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council for the Arts, and Furthermore, a program of the J.M. Kaplan Fund. In 2013 he was appointed Senior Fellow at the Center for Urban Real Estate (CURE.), in Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, to direct a joint research and conference initiative called Building the Digital City: Tech and the Transformation of New York. He is a member of the American Institute of Architects, a Fellow at the Forum for Urban Design, and sits on the board of trustees of the Skyscraper Museum. Since 2016 he has served as consulting Chair of the Design Review Board at the global architecture firm, Woods Bagot.

Mr. Sanders' architecture, urban design, and development strategy projects include the Seaport Culture District, a coordinated program of seven installations in re-imagined indoor and outdoor spaces stretching across the upland blocks of the South Street Seaport area of lower Manhattan, sponsored by The Howard Hughes Corporation and activated by eight New York cultural partners and collaborators including the AIA Center for Architecture, Guggenheim Museum, American Institute of Graphic Arts/NY Chapter, Eyebeam, HarperCollins, Arup, No Longer Empty, and Art Start; NYU Open House, a public event space and cultural center in Greenwich Village for New York University, "Seaport Past & Future" for General Growth Properties, and projects for the Related Companies, André Balazs Properties, South Street Seaport Museum, Ian Schrager Company, Marriott International, the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey, the Pershing Square Management Association in Los Angeles, and the Parks Council, where he co-designed and co-developed the coordinated series of amenities—including bookmarket, flower market, and cafes—that initiated the revitalization of Bryant Park in midtown Manhattan, described by MIT's Susan Silberberg as “one of the most dramatic examples of successful place-making in the last half century.” His residential and commercial work has been featured in Interiors, Oculus, The Architect's Newspaper, The New Yorker, House Beautiful, The New York Times, and Architectural Digest. In May 2013 he served as a senior consultant to SHoP Architects on their submission to the Municipal Art Society's invited challenge for visionary proposals for a new Pennsylvania Station.

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